RE: 331mph Tuatara is world's fastest production car
Discussion
NMNeil said:
Seems I hit a nerve.
You are quite welcome to hold onto that premise if it makes you feel better at all.NMNeil said:
As for using a 300mph car on the public roads after speed limiters are introduced, it will just make them easier to spot. And you never know, they could start crushing the cars of offenders who race on the public roads, as some already want.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/cru...
Yes the Tuatara is made in the USA, but it's not even on the list to be crashed for 2021.And until it is, they can't be sold here for road use.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2021-vehicles...
The Federal crash test is mandatory before any new production car can be sold in the USA.
I have absolutely no idea why you think that any of this is at all relevant to, or progresses, your argument?? You made the statement; "as very soon 300 mph cars will only be seen on a racetrack, or in a museum." which is obviously unfounded so it was rebutted. None of the information, in any of the four links that you have provided, adds any form of credence to that original statement at all so you are still drowning here unless you really can manage to find anything, whilst desperately searching the internet, that will back up your original assertion that these cars will somehow be prevented from road use, either now or in the future across the globe.https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/cru...
Yes the Tuatara is made in the USA, but it's not even on the list to be crashed for 2021.And until it is, they can't be sold here for road use.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2021-vehicles...
The Federal crash test is mandatory before any new production car can be sold in the USA.
NMNeil said:
Finally, your nonsense of just because it can go at 300mph doesn't mean that it will be driven at 300mph; why else would anyone buy one? It's not for it's spacious boot or it's incredible fuel economy, it's because it can go fast.
I own a couple of semi auto AK-47's, and if I said I want them to be fitted with100 round drum magazines and be full auto, but promised never to use them on full auto, would you believe me?, of course not, and rightly so.
Same as a 300mph car.
What I actually said was that just because a car is capable of doing 300mph doesn't mean that it has to do it every time that it is driven which renders your last paragraph redundant even before you, rather bizarrely, brought guns into it.I own a couple of semi auto AK-47's, and if I said I want them to be fitted with100 round drum magazines and be full auto, but promised never to use them on full auto, would you believe me?, of course not, and rightly so.
Same as a 300mph car.
Resurrection... Interesting post on Imgur from someone at SSC talking about the '331mph' run:
https://imgur.com/gallery/hbxAYzz
https://imgur.com/gallery/hbxAYzz
Funk said:
Resurrection... Interesting post on Imgur from someone at SSC talking about the '331mph' run:
https://imgur.com/gallery/hbxAYzz
So the Tuatara appears to have a top speed of 280-ish mph.https://imgur.com/gallery/hbxAYzz
Almost exactly what Shmee / EE calculated it was doing from SSC's dodgy video of their '316 mph' run.
Looks like deliberate fakery to me, since SSC still haven't released either GPS data or raw video from their first attempt.
I personally doubt the 331 mph big time. I read an article by the boss of McLaren, his name escapes me for the moment and he was pointing out the extra bhp needed to make a 200 mph supercar into a 250 mph one. It was a ludicrous amount of power so to go 300 mph i don't see 1,750 bhp being enough unless it was powering a projectile with some astonishingly low drag coefficient. The car above ain't that projectile from where i am sitting.
I stand to be corrected but i see that car as a 270 mph car tops. There was a 1,000+ bhp Corvette in Las Vegas at the Convention Centre bash 5 years ago and the owner said it would do ''around 230 mph''. 330 seems off the scale to me.
I stand to be corrected but i see that car as a 270 mph car tops. There was a 1,000+ bhp Corvette in Las Vegas at the Convention Centre bash 5 years ago and the owner said it would do ''around 230 mph''. 330 seems off the scale to me.
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