RE: 331mph Tuatara is world's fastest production car

RE: 331mph Tuatara is world's fastest production car

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castex

4,935 posts

272 months

Tuesday 27th October 2020
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Sorry if this is unoriginal but, you know,

Speed Matters.

Kent Border Kenny

2,219 posts

59 months

Tuesday 27th October 2020
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NMNeil said:
Seems I hit a nerve.
No, you made an uninformed post and were rightly picked up on it.

You seem to have very little understanding of statistics, engineering, or legislation, yet want to pretend to expertise.
Have you considered a career in the police?

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Tuesday 27th October 2020
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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.

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.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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The throttle goes both ways. Besides, it sounds like it's not a 300mph car, so surely that's a good thing for the fine folk of mumsnet.

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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NFC 85 Vette said:
The throttle goes both ways. Besides, it sounds like it's not a 300mph car, so surely that's a good thing for the fine folk of mumsnet.
That would at least explain everybody's queries regarding the tyres if it does turn out to be categorically the case.

peterg1955

746 posts

163 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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gigglebug said:
rather bizarrely, brought guns into it.
have you looked at his profile? ;-)

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Tuesday 15th June 2021
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Resurrection... Interesting post on Imgur from someone at SSC talking about the '331mph' run:

https://imgur.com/gallery/hbxAYzz

AW111

9,455 posts

132 months

Tuesday 15th June 2021
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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.

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.


BroadsRS6

785 posts

38 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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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.

Mezzanine

9,148 posts

218 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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I think it’s time in the sun is already over anyway

Crashy Smashy

h0b0

7,557 posts

195 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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Mezzanine said:
I think it’s time in the sun is already over anyway

Crashy Smashy

SturdyHSV

10,083 posts

166 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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Good job it's a legit production car then and they can just 'produce' another one thumbuphehe

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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h0b0 said:
Mezzanine said:
I think it’s time in the sun is already over anyway

Crashy Smashy
Early reports indicate the wind speed was 892mph. This has yet to be validated though...

Sensei Rob

311 posts

78 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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I guess it's to be expected from a company who names their car the ttara.

h0b0

7,557 posts

195 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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NFC 85 Vette said:
h0b0 said:
Mezzanine said:
I think it’s time in the sun is already over anyway

Crashy Smashy
Early reports indicate the wind speed was 892mph. This has yet to be validated though...

Mezzanine

9,148 posts

218 months

Thursday 17th June 2021
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h0b0 said:
NFC 85 Vette said:
h0b0 said:
Mezzanine said:
I think it’s time in the sun is already over anyway

Crashy Smashy
Early reports indicate the wind speed was 892mph. This has yet to be validated though...
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