300mph in a Bugatti
www.topgear.com/car-news/bugatti-has-broken-300mph-barrier
I remember the Ferrari F40 being the first production car capable of 200mph. Things have moved on somewhat.
Mind-boggling thing: travelling at 248mph and then having another gear to shift up into.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 2 Sep 2019, 9:40,
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Cool...
But think about this. At 300mph, you will be travelling 134 meters every second. Your breaking time will be between 10 and 15 seconds, during which you will travel at least half a kilometre, probably more like a whole kilometre.
Then a deer trots out into the middle of the motorway around 250 meters ahead of you...
I want to know what proportion of the people who can afford to buy and insure one of these cars would have the superhuman reaction times to be able to perform an emergency stop without dying.
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this was done on the straight of VW's test track which is perfectly flat and level and over 5 miles long, with banked corners at either end for high speed entry
don't think it would be possible anywhere else, but someone might kill themselves trying
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custard, Mon 2 Sep 2019, 10:37,
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There's always gonna be
some bell end trying to impress a date who says "Watch this" and floors it straight into a lamp post.
(, Mon 2 Sep 2019, 23:50, Reply)
Fiat Punto pulls
In all honesty though, do you really think anyone is actually going to take this thing to Vmax on a public road?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 2 Sep 2019, 10:41,
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If they could get just another 6 miles an hour out of it, that'd be 500kph!
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Mon 2 Sep 2019, 22:32,
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Great.
You'll still be stuck at 50mph in the endless roadworks on the M6 like everyone else though.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Mon 2 Sep 2019, 10:44,
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