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Received an email this morning containing some interesting statistics, but this one looks like it might not be entirely true. Anyone else know better? :confused: I mean, the Veyron is the 'slowest' of all 10 these cars?
 
The veyron should be 2.5s 0-60mph from what I remember...
 
The Renault F1 is definitely not a production car. Its a MPV that they installed the (2004 IIRC) Renault Formula 1 engine into. No idea why, but I'm guessing it could be fun pulling up to a guy in a Ferrari at a robot and smoking him with your people carrier... hahaha... my bet is he'll drive his car straight back to the dealer and tell them it's broken!
 
Sparky_za said:
The Renault F1 is definitely not a production car. Its a MPV that they installed the (2004 IIRC) Renault Formula 1 engine into. No idea why, but I'm guessing it could be fun pulling up to a guy in a Ferrari at a robot and smoking him with your people carrier... hahaha... my bet is he'll drive his car straight back to the dealer and tell them it's broken!
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:D :D :D

smoke 'em!
 
Rubbish this is. The two Dauer 962s are real though, those cars manage to accelerate that quickly in part because their gearing is so long that they hit 100km/h in first gear, so no time wasting gearshifts... the others are largely pure imagination - not the cars, but the times.

2.9s for a stock Viper GTS-R - lol!
And that Hennessy TT. It's a Viper 8.2-litre V10 with twin turbos. Certainly all the power in the world, but there's no way it would get the traction for a 2.7s 0-100 run unless you were doing the run on a track made of superglue.
The Camaro ZL1 is a concept, so this is just theoretical data.
The Callaway Corvette is real, and very fast, but again I doubt the traction would be there for such a time.
Renault Espace, well yes it's a once-off F1 car in an Espace skin so that's feasible.
Audi Avus Quattro - concept.

So no, these are theoretical calculations based on pur power/weight/gearing calculations, and not taking the real world of traction into account. Pretty sure the Veyron would murder the lot of them, save for the Dauers and the Espace F1. It is heavy yes, that's why VW gave it 1000 bhp!
 
Yeah, i'm with Beam on this...

The only "production" car in that list is the Bugatti... the rest of limited runs of heavily souped up and modified production cars or concepts. And the Bugatti does 2.6s zero - 60mph(100kmh)
 
Isn't the Ariel Atom as fast as some of those and it's production. Also that funny purple thing that Jeremy Clarkson drove that made him *** in his broek it was so quick.

I actually saw an Atom on a trailer leaving Killarney the other day. Nice little piece of kit.
 
I've never seen a supercar race that only stops at 60mp/h... that makes the stats a bit useless. The Veyron can't be compared just on performance, if you've seen Top Gear's Veyron Challenge (Race from Italy to London), you'll know what I'm talking about. There is nothing on earth like it...

If you're out for performance, get the Atom 500. Easy.
 
foozball3000 said:
I've never seen a supercar race that only stops at 60mp/h... that makes the stats a bit useless. The Veyron can't be compared just on performance, if you've seen Top Gear's Veyron Challenge (Race from Italy to London), you'll know what I'm talking about. There is nothing on earth like it...

If you're out for performance, get the Atom 500. Easy.
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Huh, every single stats page for any new car has a 0-62 rating.
 
There's a video on youtube of a veyron vs new m3. I imagine the veyron driver was just feathering the pedal a bit but the veyron in pretty much every vid starts slower and then comes *flying* past. So yeah, even if it's 0-60 time sucked (which it doesn't AT ALL!) I would still bet on the veyron winning a fairly straight race.
 
If I remember the Veyron's time, it was 0 to 300km/h in just less than 14 seconds, that's got to count for something :-)
 
The Veyron is the fastest "Standard Production Car" there was a thing on TV about it a while back all the other cars are "specials" you can not buy them.
 
Not only is the 0-96km/h time of the Veyron in that picture wrong, but it would cream anything else on that list to 200km/h and 300km/h.
 
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