Boop His Nose! It's Soft... but Mind the Teeth!
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Posted on 07/18/2011 7:59:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Right now the fastest production car in the world is the hyper exclusive--and hyper expensive--Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, which is capable of a top speed of 268 mph. The previous record holder was the less refined, yet still very capable, Ultimate Aero from America’s own Shelby SuperCars (SSC), which itself stole the record from the original Veyron.
Now SSC is set to reclaim the manufacturer of the world’s fastest production title from Bugatti with a brand new supercar, a supercar that will go by the name Tuatara (pronounced twu-tar-ah). Yes, SSC has taken a page out of Pagani’s book and given its latest supercar a name almost as strange as Huayra, but there is some reasoning behind the decision.
The name Tuatara was inspired by the Maori word for a lizard found in New Zealand. The Maori are the indigenous people of the tiny island nation. The Tuatara lizard boasts the fastest evolving DNA in the world, and this fast-paced evolution is something SSC’s designers think their new supercar encapsulates.
As the founder of SSC, Jerod Shelby explains: “Most manufacturers essentially use the same basic model and body shape for up to 10 years, while only making small refinements to it each year. After only three years in production with the Ultimate Aero, SSC’s Tuatara is about to monumentally evolve in the areas of sophistication, design, aerodynamics and shear all-around performance. We felt that the fastest evolving DNA was a perfect definition of SSC’s latest project.”
Along with the new name, SSC also released more specs for its upcoming supercar. Its body will be composed entirely of carbon fiber and wrapped around a chassis made of the same stuff. The crash structures will be aluminum, however, though the wheels will also be made from carbon fiber.
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NO airplane at 1/10th that price is going anywhere near 268mph.
How can you NOT pick up chicks with that car?
That is in the optional time travel package. Even the time machine in the movie uses an internal combustion engine to get up to 88 miles per hour :)
[That ought to get you down t o the corner Minit Mart........ and quickly.]
I’m thinking down to the gas station quick, I wonder what the mileage is?
Yes but it only eats one quarter of its bodyweight a year.
If the car can match that, a Prius will look like a fuel hog.
depends on how you drive it. WOT probably measured in feet per gallon.
Cruzing down the highway at 70mph? teens per gallon would be my guess.
Yeah...but there's no room for groceries.
James May, their Speed King, has already said it’s not slippery enough to make 275, and he doesn’t believe it.
Yeah, but you only need the vehicle to achieve 88 mph to make the jump to “time warp” speed.
Now that, right there, is funny. No matter who you are!
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:: teens per gallon would be my guess ::
As long as they are over 8-TEENS, dude!
Keep it to the weight of a Lotus Elise, and they may have something. Its predecessor was 2,800 lbs. Veryon is over 4,000 lbs., probably inspired by a T-72.
Nice car,,, but that color scheme is hideous!
>> How can you NOT pick up chicks with that car?
Well, if they’re fat, they won’t fit inside. Just to answer your question.
The nose reminds me of the Enzo.
May?
“Captain Slow”, as they call him?
You may mean Hammond.
Shelby SuperCars is based about 4 miles from me, and I have seen the Ultimate Aero at a car show here, but has the company ever actually sold one?
thousand miles between servicing.
Having a blowout at 268 mph will get into a grave pronto.
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