Posted on 12/10/2005 9:10:44 AM PST by liberallarry
Runs out fuel quickly but it gets its 12 minutes of fame.
NOW CUT THAT OUT!!!
I happen to like Edsels. An Edsel is far more affordable than one of those other things. And it has big wide seats and a cushy ride and a bigger trunk and wide whitewall tires and a pushbutton transmission!
Ouch, daddy's gonna be pissed
If the stop is hard enough to pull your sunglasses off of your face, I'd guess your brain might slosh around a bit. Guess one would have to interview the person who experienced this in a before and after interview to see how they might have been affected.
Now this is a Bugg. Is the snout on the Veyron inspired by Edsel or the Type 57?
This one looks just a little like one of my Labrador's bones.
Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is...
I was just reading up on the Type 55. It came out in 1935 with a DOHC 2.3 liter 8 and a blower that ran at 10 lbs. It did 0-60 in a little over 9 seconds and was capable of 120 mph!
This here's my kind of race...I mean sports car, a T13 (early 20s?). The front wheels are canted so severely, it looks like the left one's about to fall off.
Of course, if one really wants to talk cars, then not much can be said after 1994 Dauer 962 LM. While sporting a red-line of merely 7800 RPM, the 2.9 liter flat-6 can propels 1020 Kg off the line to 60 MPH in 2.6 seconds (1st gear topping at 100MPH and another 5 gears thereafter) having a top speed of 251.4 MPH. The street-legal 962LM is 180Kg more massive than the Porsche 962 racer, which in 1994 after dominating Le Mans Group C racing for over a decade, was doomed by FIA rule changes designed to prevent another 962 win. These rule changes in my opinion also relegated the sport forever to the dustbin of history.
With respect to the stats cited against a Formula One racer, I have no clue what they're spewing there. First off you're looking at a 505Kg car sporting 800+ horsepower. That's a lot of ponies to be putting to the road with that little mass.
According the the telemetry in my Formula One sim, at Monza, I come out of the hole at the Rettifilo Tribune at 39.35 MPH, 1010 meters later I'm approaching Variante della Roggia at 214.5 MPH. That's an average velocity of 126.92, but telemetry shows an average over the distance of 164.2 MPH. Coming out of the final turn in the Rettifilo, I'm at the 700m mark, by 800m, I'm sporting 119.4 MPH (telemetry shows an average of 76.7 MPH over the distance). Anyways, the bottom line here is telemetery shows 1.5 longitudinal g's out of the hole at the Rettifilo. The Bugatti's claimed 0-60 in 2.1sec works out to 1.303 g's.
Furthermore, as I approach the Rettifilo after the long straightaway passed pit row, I'm sporting 220.1 MPH. I begin my braking at the 510m mark, and by 645m, I've decelerated to 44.57 MPH. If I work using linear decelleration, that's done in 2.376 sec, and works out to -3.99. However, telemetry shows the instantaneous deceleration to peak at -5.32 g's. So I'm guessing I'm decelerating before the first S turns in under two seconds. And based on the slope of the acceleration curve, I'm guessing the car probably could be stopped in another 10m. To keep that in perspective, according to telemetry, while I'm still decelerating at -1.0 g's, I'm initiating a 2.57 g (80 deg.) right-hand turn, I straighten out and accelerate to 61.86 MPH, and initiate a 100 deg. lefthand turn (2.46 g's), which leaves me in a 39.35MPH hole. Apex of the right-hand turn, to apex of the left-hand turn is about 20 m.
Eat that Bugatti.
I don't think I'll be trading in the ol' pickup, but it's nice to see they kept the cool little Bugatti grille.
Thanks for the ping. I saw this one in a car mag at my shrinks office a while ago. Sweet ride. They said it handled great as well as being fast.
One of the biggest challenges was how to cool the engine. Lots of power = lots of heat.
Next time I have a couple mil to spare, I'll look again, but for now, I'll stay w/ my 95 crown vic.
Showed the write up on this car to wife in the doctor'f office the other day. Don't think the keys will be in my stocking. :(
doctor'f = doctor's
C'mon, wifey not liking the style or the price tag?
LOL...Perfect.....Still LOL while typing.
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