State Limousine Drag Race - Who Would Win?

[Beyond Rational]

The Queen has the 6.75 litre Bentley (400 hp, 835 N·m) - Wikipedia max speed of 130mph.


If she happened to get into a traffic light drag race with other dignities, who could beat her?

[Mr Dave]

The Italians certainly wont win the beauty contest thats for sure!

The Uruguayan presidential car is a chevrolet badged Vauxhall Vectra C so thats no very inspiring.

Im going to go with any of the ones that use a Lexus LS600h. 439 hybrid horse power! All wheel drive, CVT gearbox so its going to get off the lights fast!

So my answer is the King of Norway!

[XJSJohn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_state_car

edit - kind of liking the Ukraine's odds with a Phaeton W12

Edited by XJSJohn on Wednesday 22 June 04:12

[drivin_me_nuts]

I suspect Mr Obama's 'Beast' will out everything them all.. (other than go up ramps)

That, or he'll just park up AF1 outside and just look very smug...

(AF1 has a sticker on the side that says my other plane is AF2. I do believe that we've got a Piper Cherokee and the Wright Brothers on fast defrost just in case)

[CraigyMc]

drivin_me_nuts said:

I suspect Mr Obama's 'Beast' will out everything them all.. (other than go up ramps)

That, or he'll just park up AF1 outside and just look very smug...

(AF1 has a sticker on the side that says my other plane is AF2. I do believe that we've got a Piper Cherokee and the Wright Brothers on fast defrost just in case)

The beast weighs 7 tons, has a top speed of 60mph, and does 0-60 in 15 seconds. It's probably one of the slower limos.

What you're calling AF1 doesn't have any stickers on it, because it's only referred to as "Air Force One" when the president is on board.
Other than that, the VC25s (modified 747) are called either by their tail numbers or the code "angel", depending on which of the two planes you're referring to - there are a pair of them currently. There's work in progress to replace them with 3 new planes of more moden vintage.

Technically any aeroplane with POTUS on it is air force one. Any plane with VPOTUS is air force two.

</geek>

C

[drivin_me_nuts]

CraigyMc said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

I suspect Mr Obama's 'Beast' will out everything them all.. (other than go up ramps)

That, or he'll just park up AF1 outside and just look very smug...

(AF1 has a sticker on the side that says my other plane is AF2. I do believe that we've got a Piper Cherokee and the Wright Brothers on fast defrost just in case)

The beast weighs 7 tons, has a top speed of 60mph, and does 0-60 in 15 seconds. It's probably one of the slower limos.

What you're calling AF1 doesn't have any stickers on it, because it's only referred to as "Air Force One" when the president is on board.
Other than that, the VC25s (modified 747) are called either by their tail numbers or the code "angel", depending on which of the two planes you're referring to - there are a pair of them currently. There's work in progress to replace them with 3 new planes of more moden vintage.

Technically any aeroplane with POTUS on it is air force one. Any plane with VPOTUS is air force two.

</geek>

C

Indeed geeky to the extreme... but good geeky, as in useful to know Geeky. That's the last time I take my knowledge of AF1 from Harrison Ford movies.

Though I now have a mental image of our Queen Lizz standing at the door of the plane at 20k ft corgies yapping around her feet, James Bond at her side, Phil the Greek standing a tad too close to Ms Moneyenny... and baddie of the moment being told in no uncertain terms to 'get orf one's aeroplane'..

[g3org3y]

drivin_me_nuts said:

CraigyMc said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

I suspect Mr Obama's 'Beast' will out everything them all.. (other than go up ramps)

That, or he'll just park up AF1 outside and just look very smug...

(AF1 has a sticker on the side that says my other plane is AF2. I do believe that we've got a Piper Cherokee and the Wright Brothers on fast defrost just in case)

The beast weighs 7 tons, has a top speed of 60mph, and does 0-60 in 15 seconds. It's probably one of the slower limos.

What you're calling AF1 doesn't have any stickers on it, because it's only referred to as "Air Force One" when the president is on board.
Other than that, the VC25s (modified 747) are called either by their tail numbers or the code "angel", depending on which of the two planes you're referring to - there are a pair of them currently. There's work in progress to replace them with 3 new planes of more moden vintage.

Technically any aeroplane with POTUS on it is air force one. Any plane with VPOTUS is air force two.

</geek>

C

Indeed geeky to the extreme... but good geeky, as in useful to know Geeky. That's the last time I take my knowledge of AF1 from Harrison Ford movies.

Really? Sounds more like 'I use Match.com' geeky to me.

[AUDIHenry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYqgeqrk4nI

Kadyrov - Chechniya (not exactly a state, let's call it territory)

[CraigyMc]

g3org3y said:

Really? Sounds more like 'I use Match.com' geeky to me.

Careful now!

C

[JonnyFive]

Not state, but Daves Jag must be pretty quick?

"The car has a 5.0-litre supercharged petrol engine which produces 503hp and a top speed of 165mph. In comparison, a standard showroom XJ produces 385hp."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357339/Da...

Edited by JonnyFive on Wednesday 22 June 15:58

[Beyond Rational]

JonnyFive said:

Not state, but Daves Jag must be pretty quick?

"The car has a 5.0-litre supercharged petrol engine which produces 503hp and a top speed of 165mph. In comparison, a standard showroom XJ produces 385hp."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357339/Da...

Edited by JonnyFive on Wednesday 22 June 15:58

Whilst that looks good on paper, unfortunately that paper has been printed on by the Daily Mail.

The NA armoured Jaguar Sentinel does 121mph and 0-60 in 9.4 - is Dave's actually supercharged? Doesn't matter, it won't hit 165mph any more, but would probably give the Queen a run for her money.

[JonnyVTEC]

JonnyFive said:

Not state, but Daves Jag must be pretty quick?

"The car has a 5.0-litre supercharged petrol engine which produces 503hp and a top speed of 165mph. In comparison, a standard showroom XJ produces 385hp."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357339/Da...

Edited by JonnyFive on Wednesday 22 June 15:58

Stock XJ SuperSport has 510PS. DailyFail!

[davepoth]

JonnyVTEC said:

Stock XJ SuperSport has 510PS. DailyFail!

510 PS is 503bhp. I'd find the Nelson "HA HA" picture but it's late and I'm tired.