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    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    it was said they were gonna produce a 1200bhp version.I kno because it was on this site
    i red it alredy has 3000hpz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockefella View Post
    You could give it thousands of miles of track but the enzo doesn't have enough power to overcome the forces of drag/wind resistance at around 220 miles/hour. (I think that's the enzo's top speed)
    its aero is designed for downforce.yet i doubt it would stop the enzo from crushing 220 at least.and quiggs,quiet please
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    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    quiet please
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    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    its aero is designed for downforce.yet i doubt it would stop the enzo from crushing 220 at least.and quiggs,quiet please
    That's the point, if the car is generating too much downforce, it gets pinned into the ground for added grip.

    Someone can show you the equation for overcoming forces of drag at higher speeds but the figure gets exponentially higher once you're in the 200+ mph range. Simply talking, the faster you go, the faster/harder you're going into the wind, which slows you down. In order to overcome that, you need to have an immense amount of power, which is why the Veyron needed 1000 horsepower just to break 250 mph. By your theory, it's similar to saying a Honda Civic can reach 300 miles per hour with 200 horsepower assuming it had 500 miles of straight track.

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    And anyway, speed being increasingly politically incorrect I doubt that the Veyron won't be beaten by any of the established brands, at least for a long time. Then again claims are easy...
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    i think that the brabus cls rocket does something in the range of 22o mph

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    Quote Originally Posted by torque55 View Post
    i think that the brabus cls rocket does something in the range of 22o mph
    The record is 362,4km/h (225mph), but the road going car is limited to 350km/h (217mph).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    The record is 362,4km/h (225mph), but the road going car is limited to 350km/h (217mph).

    http://www.brabus.de/news/news66e.htm
    they also limited the torque to around 730, from 1000. i beleive that would have pushed it much faster

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    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    it was said they were gonna produce a 1200bhp version.I kno because it was on this site
    Don't believe everything you read, and if you do, remember to read the statement from Bugatti officially denying that such a car would be built.

    The rumours were merely media speculation.

    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    its aero is designed for downforce.yet i doubt it would stop the enzo from crushing 220 at least.
    Downforce = Drag

    Drag != 250mph

    The Enzo's drag coefficient is 0.36 - similar to that of the Bugatti's 0.355 in top-speed trim.

    So, for the Enzo to reach the Bugatti's top speed, it would need to find another 400bhp or so.

    The P4/5's slightly more svelte Cd of 0.34 is why it has a higher top speed than the car on which it is based - 225 to 217.

    That is fast enough anyway - the opportunities to travel any faster are few and far between. Unless you have a track like Ehra-Lessien, with a 5 mile straight, or you can convince the local authorities to shut down a similarly lengthy stretch of straight and level highway, it would be impossible to achieve.

    Only a handful of McLaren F1s have been taken to their top speed (220ish) in the decade since its release, despite it being one of its most famous attributes.

    I can't believe that, unless offered to do so by Bugatti at Ehra, more than one or two Veyron owners will attempt the feat.

    What is the point of chasing a goal that demands such compromise and focus, when only a few people will actually achieve that goal once during their ownership of the car?
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    whats do you guys think about ssc's failure
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaigra View Post
    Please practise what you preach.
    u spelled practice wrong
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    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    u spelled practice wrong
    You spelled "you" wrong.

    "Practise" is a correctly spelled, typically British variation of the word "practice".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks View Post
    Only a handful of McLaren F1s have been taken to their top speed (220ish) in the decade since its release, despite it being one of its most famous attributes.
    Wasn't McLaren F1's top speed 240mph? Or am I wrong?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    Wasn't McLaren F1's top speed 240mph? Or am I wrong?
    yes but that was the one of the XP prototypes like the one pictured in the pic of the day.im not sure if its the same exact on(not sure if it was xp1 or xp4).yet the mclarens sold to customers "only" go 230.i believe a rev limiter is the reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by torque55 View Post
    they also limited the torque to around 730, from 1000. i beleive that would have pushed it much faster
    torque doesn't make top speed. btw it's limited because gearbox and clutch can't handle such a power. it's like saying veyron could make 500 km/h only if it could. but it can't

    Quote Originally Posted by sicilian973-2 View Post
    whats do you guys think about ssc's failure
    so it failed? meh i'm not surprised at all
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