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.
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
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
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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.
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?
Last edited by Coventrysucks; 03-26-2007 at 05:12 AM.
whats do you guys think about ssc's failure
Ferrari will be WCC. Whoever wins the WDC will be from the Scuderia.........Yet who?
Ferrari will be WCC. Whoever wins the WDC will be from the Scuderia.........Yet who?
12 cylinders or walk!
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