Triumph for the Bugatti Veyron

[Matt]

Originally Posted by LandQuail

Oh hell, anything's faster than a fighter jet. It isn't until takeoff that jets really get moving. The jet engine works better and better the faster it goes; it might make, I don't know, 10,000 pounds of thrust while stationary, and then much more (maybe exponentially?) up to a speed at which the gain in thrust levels off due to airflow separation or something like it within the engine.
The Vincent Black Shadow was claimed to out-accellerate a F-104 Starfighter until it took off, and that was in the 50's.

You might as well race it against Secretariat.

...There's an idea.

There was nothing said about the Veyron out-accelerating a fighter jet. It was talking about max g-forces.