SSC Tuatara Top Speed run apparently faked?

[sosidge]

How many production SSC Tuatara's are there?

[JD]

sosidge said:

How many production SSC Tuatara's are there?

I think you are looking at the entire production run.

I can’t help but be not impressed by things like this, calling it a production car feels like stretching it a bit. There is one; and it appears to be a work in progress with a whole team trying to make it go fast and it overheating etc.

But if that makes it not a proper production car, then you have to compare it to tuner cars and they make this thing look slow.

[DonBarracuda]

JD said:

I think you are looking at the entire production run.

I can’t help but be not impressed by things like this, calling it a production car feels like stretching it a bit. There is one; and it appears to be a work in progress with a whole team trying to make it go fast and it overheating etc.

But if that makes it not a proper production car, then you have to compare it to tuner cars and they make this thing look slow.

Misha and Rob brought up this point in Misha's latest video at the 15:40mark

[DonBarracuda]

1 of 1 SSC Tuatara heavily damaged in transit
https://www.thedrive.com/news/40486/top-speed-reco...

[RB Will]

Suspicious or just bad luck?
I get SSC can’t control the weather but are there any pics of the upside down transporter?

[GT911]

RB Will said:

Suspicious or just bad luck?
I get SSC can’t control the weather but are there any pics of the upside down transporter?

There are pics in the link??

[RB Will]

Doh! I stopped scrolling where the YouTube vid was, thought that was the end of the article

[gruffgriff]

"The driver and passenger who were on board at the time both walked away from the accident, although one was later hospitalized, Shelby said."

??

[LotusOmega375D]

I know nothing about trailering loads, but if you were just towing one car, why would you load it onto the top deck? Isn’t that putting the centre of gravity unnecessarily high?

[614-HSO]

LotusOmega375D said:

I know nothing about trailering loads, but if you were just towing one car, why would you load it onto the top deck? Isn’t that putting the centre of gravity unnecessarily high?

Yes, there was a bike as well, I wonder if the lower-deck had a car that had been removed already and the SSC was just left up top.

At least this should give the Koenigsegg Jesko a chance to snatch the record away before the SSC is repaired

[samoht]

LotusOmega375D said:

I know nothing about trailering loads, but if you were just towing one car, why would you load it onto the top deck? Isn’t that putting the centre of gravity unnecessarily high?

Indeed. I assume they'd had another car under and delivered it first, and didn't bother re-arranging.

Also apparently they were near (but not in) a stretch of road closed to high-sided vehicles due to high winds.

All in all, sounds like perhaps not the best decision making involved, although I daresay a fair bit of bad luck too.

[DonBarracuda]

RB Will said:

Suspicious or just bad luck?
I get SSC can’t control the weather but are there any pics of the upside down transporter?

I still don't trust them at so.. both???
It probably is just a bit bad luck (which could have been avoided) but every cloud has a silver lining, the insurance money will help pay for further R&D.

[DonkeyApple]

gruffgriff said:

"The driver and passenger who were on board at the time both walked away from the accident, although one was later hospitalized, Shelby said."

??

Glad I'm not the only one who waxed through a relatively dull article to be rewarded with that little gem.