Too expensive, too complicated, and way too heavy.
The king of the hill is the Ford GT that keeps breaking it's own top speed records virtually every year and only does it in only the distance of a single mile.
This video was made specifically for that 2 million dollar bag of bolts
king of the hill for a very long time, but now we have the McLaren P1 and Porsche 918...
The part that makes me laugh is that the P1 has a higher official MPG rating than some of the cars that people drive at work.
But yeah, the Veyron is a bit of a beast. I wonder what would happen if they could fit that powerplant in an Ariel Atom with the smallest front and rear wing that you can get away with, and some drag reduction tweaks...
Too expensive, too complicated, and way too heavy.
The king of the hill is the Ford GT that keeps breaking it's own top speed records virtually every year and only does it in only the distance of a single mile.
This video was made specifically for that 2 million dollar bag of bolts
HOLY BLEEP!
That's one seriously fast car... makes the Veyron look like a sluggish Beetle by comparison!
283mph....
...in a STANDING MILE?!?!
WTF is powering it? 1700+ horsepower??!? Just how much more horse is the plus sign hiding?!!
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That's one seriously fast car... makes the Veyron look like a sluggish Beetle by comparison!
283mph....
...in a STANDING MILE?!?!
WTF is powering it? 1700+ horsepower??!? Just how much more horse is the plus sign hiding?!!
What's powering it is the Ford GT 5.4L with a couple turbo's And that is around 1700 at the tires closer to 2000 at the flywheel.
IMO, the Ford GT engine is probably one of greatest motors ever made. In factory trim the car is rated at 500hp at the flywheel. Put a couple turbos on that completely BONE STOCK UNTOUCHED long block (heads, cams, rockers, crank, rods, pistons, block all 100% bone stock) and they will RELIABLY make 1600 flywheel horsepower 1300-1400 at the tires all day long.
I don't know of a another factory engine that has that type of power potential built into it in the entire automotive history of engines. You can usually go a couple hundred on a high performance vehicle and get away with it, but you never start with 500 and go to 1500 with the same exact motor and do it reliably. They really went above and beyond bullet proofing that engine.
This is an older Ford GT build, and that owner eventually went to 1400 HP on that same engine. But this is a really cool watch to not only see the build, but also experience just how badass that type of power is.
And that is around 1700 at the tires closer to 2000 at the flywheel.