Faster than a Veyron

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Originally Posted by Pumpe-Düse

It made many performance sacrifices to be a civil street car. Its closest rival at the time, the F40, was the polar opposite. Nothing was getting in the way of its on-track prowess. That's why with 200hp less power, far slower acceleration, it can easily monster a McLaren F1 production car on-track.

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This is funny.

Performance sacrifice's! hahahaha.

Cause 600+bhp in the world's best supercar/street car using all the lastest & greatest material's & part's is a sacrifice! hahahahahahaah

Maybe you have also forgoten that the F1 done all this remarkable stuff & set numerous record's without the use of forced induction too!


Little known, fact. The F1 had more boot space than a mk1 golf! how's that!


The F1 stood out by itself! It didn't have a closest rival at all & not even the current (at the time of production) supercar's of Bugatti's EB110 or the Jaguar XJ220 came close.

Even as far as I can remember the F40 was already 5 year's old before the F1 was even born & then Ferrari stopped production when the F1 just started!

The F40 was pitted up against the Porsche 959 from my memory.


Anyway, back on topic I reckon here's some info about the SSC Aero breaking the speed record.

http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/articles/ssc_record.asp

Not bad for a car that weigh's 784kg's less & makes 182hp more than a veyron I reckon! hahaha.

All of that to beat it by 3.11mph! Whacko! haha Jeez I find this stuff funny.


Some more reading info for you all

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

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

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

Then onto the old school, yet still stupidily fast car's of yester year!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XJ220

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_EB110

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Originally Posted by golfworx

This is funny.

Performance sacrifice's! hahahaha.

Cause 600+bhp in the world's best supercar/street car using all the lastest & greatest material's & part's is a sacrifice! hahahahahahaah

Maybe you have also forgoten that the F1 done all this remarkable stuff & set numerous record's without the use of forced induction too!


Little known, fact. The F1 had more boot space than a mk1 golf! how's that!


The F1 stood out by itself! It didn't have a closest rival at all & not even the current (at the time of production) supercar's of Bugatti's EB110 or the Jaguar XJ220 came close.

Even as far as I can remember the F40 was already 5 year's old before the F1 was even born & then Ferrari stopped production when the F1 just started!

The F40 was pitted up against the Porsche 959 from my memory.


Anyway, back on topic I reckon here's some info about the SSC Aero breaking the speed record.

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There's a sacrifice for being a streetable car you've just mentioned yourself, a boot. Why does a proper track car need a boot? It doesn't. The McLaren F1 made sacrifices of on-track performance in order to be a good street car. Gordon Murray himself acknowledges that - and he's more qualified then anybody posting in this thread to say so.

However, the F1 has gathered such an internet fanboy following so immense that anybody even remotley thinking of saying anything ill of it must be a liar or who knows what else.

By the way, there was a car, that at the time was a road going production car (but never had the McLaren's sales numbers or notoriety), that would toast a McLaren F1. In fact, it would make a Veyron and SSC Aero look like they're accelerating slowly and almost any other road car ever made look like it can't turn. Look it up. 1994 Dauer 962 LeMans.

http://students.philau.edu/kong0193/...0Le%20Mans.jpg

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Originally Posted by golfworx

Anyway, back on topic I reckon here's some info about the SSC Aero breaking the speed record.

http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/articles/ssc_record.asp

Not bad for a car that weigh's 784kg's less & makes 182hp more than a veyron I reckon! hahaha.

All of that to beat it by 3.11mph! Whacko! haha Jeez I find this stuff funny.

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By the way, power/weight is largely irrelevant when it comes to top speed, power v aerodynamic drag v gearing is what matters.

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Originally Posted by Pumpe-Düse

By the way, power/weight is largely irrelevant when it comes to top speed, power v aerodynamic drag v gearing is what matters.

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Record claims

The title of "world's fastest production road car" is constantly in contention, especially because the term "production car" is not well-defined.

The McLaren F1 has a top speed of 231 mph (372 km/h),[25] restricted by the rev limiter at 7500 rpm. The true top speed of the Mclaren F1 was reached in April of 1998 by the five-year-old XP5 prototype. Andy Wallace (racer) piloted it down the 9 km straight at Volkswagen’s Ehra test track in Wolfsburg, Germany, setting a new world record of 243 mph (391 km/h) at 7800 rpm. As Mario Andretti noted in a comparison test, the F1 is fully capable of pulling a seventh gear, thus with a higher gear ratio or a seventh gear the Mclaren F1 would probably be able to reach an even greater top speed (something which can also be observed by noticing that the top speed was reached at 7800 rpm while the peak power is reached at 7400 RPM).

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A What? :nana:

Sometimes ... I don't know why I bother posting info for you guys ... you turn everything into an argument. And before you start with the childish "No we don't!"

Thread closed.

Dave