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The Bugatti Veyron
An anonymous reader writes "OK, most /.ers cannot afford the Veyron, but reading this article at HowStuffWorks is still fascinating. How do you fit 1,000 horsepower into a compact engine? How do you keep a passenger car on the road at 250+ MPH? The article links to a set of videos on the Veyron engine that are also very good. Are there any cars out there better than this?" There's also a story by Popular Science.
Who cares? I want my flying car!
karma capped
I have a Veyron you insensitive clod!
Modding your 1982 Pinto doesn't count.
You have a French tank?
Well, here in the USA, we do use very heavy passengers:)
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
Fill it up with petroleum distillate, and revulcanize my tires! Posthaste!
You don't. That's part of the beauty of it.
KFG
"How do you keep a passenger car on the road at 250+ MPH?"
The answer for most people is: you don't.
I like how the HowStuffWorks article has a "Shop or Compare Prices" link at the very end.
It doesn't come up with too many matches, though.
"Tomorrow's forecast: a few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom!" - Stewie Griffin
The perfect accessory to the Bugatti
I am a karma whore.
Ronald said nothing. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode madly off in all directions.
I can see a better way to get that much power. Make a redundant array of independant cars, or RAIC. Take 10 Kias, and weld them together. You get 1200 hp, plus better mileage. Also, who needs run flat tires, if it breaks down, pry one of the Kias out and drive to get help.
You're lucky there isn't a moderation
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...and that is "How Slashdot works". :)
Leonid Mamtchenkov
Bah! I can accelerate 9.8m/s**2 in my sleep!
They have to catch you before they can charge you.
"Next week... on FOX! World's Wildes-HOLY FARK, LOOK AT THAT CAR GO!"
Drive FASTER.. until the THRILL OF SPEED overcomes the FEAR OF DEATH!
No bluetooth!
Cool, there is a "Shop or Compare Prices" link at the end of the article!
'We couldn't find any product matches on Shopping.com for "the Bugatti Veyron"'
Damn!
I refuse to have a sig... dammit!
First rule of driving in Southern California. On the highways, cut off the sports cars.. their breaks are better and their owners are more motivated to miss you! ;)
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Okay. so this is all great and well...
But how do the breaks work?
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
That's ok. If you haven't lost the cops within 15 minutes, you're screwed anyway :)
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
400lbs is a ton
Damn you metric sytem!
It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
I was about to make a potentially insightful post on the human muscalatory system and how it provides superior acceleration... until I read through to "200" and realized you meant motorbike, not bicycle :(
It's a matter of power/weight ratio, therefore a bike which has a 180hp engine and weighs 170kgs like the 'zuki will have you cream your pants the same way ;)
Ewww...You're never getting a ride in my Bugatti, mister!
Yup. Its called a 797. Caterpillar 797.
V24 diesel engine, with four turbos. Three thousand, four hundred ponies. Yeah, you heard me: 3400hp.
Seven forward gears. 42 inch brakes. Can haul up to 380 tons of your kids crap.
Course, it only does like 42mph (loaded) while getting 0.3 mpg. Yes, at 47 feet long and 23 feet tall, its kind of hard to park. But you can rest assured that your 13 foot tires are bigger than your neighbours' Escalade! Or his entire Chevvy for that matter.
Yours for only 3.4 million! (Some assembly required).
(PS: All joking aside, i've seen one of these beasts up close, and they're just insane. The pictures don't even do it justice.)
Nope... French tanks are the ones with enormous firepower, great performance, and terrific soldiers inside them, but which are unfortunately in entirely the wrong location. British tanks are the ones the Americans give the joke IFF circuits to. German tanks are the ones we hope like hell they never decide to use again.
It's Italian tanks that have the high reverse performance.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.