motorcycle_mayhem
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| posted on 2/3/16 at 09:35 AM |
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Walking is quicker than a 300 mph car in most situations I can see! Road driving isn't an enjoyable pastime from my perspective, which
can't be unique, hence driverless cars...
The mathematics of speed/power/drag are just against 300 mph routinely.
But, let's have Utopian car future.... we 'drive' our 'cars' in a vacuum tunnel, on magnetic 'tracks',
tram-like power feed above to brushless motors.
All controlled by Microsoft's finest, so we just sit back obliviously and send each other messages and pictures detailing our interesting lives
- hey, just a minute, most drivers seem to do that already.
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nick205
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| posted on 2/3/16 at 11:51 AM |
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...or in the case of my 12 yr old nephew fail to understand that there is no WiFi in cars yet 
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loggyboy
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| posted on 2/3/16 at 12:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nick205
...or in the case of my 12 yr old nephew fail to understand that there is no WiFi in cars yet
you need an upgrade!
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Doctor Derek Doctors
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| posted on 2/3/16 at 01:28 PM |
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Blimey, for a website largely about the enjoyment of cars there are a lot of really miserable gits who seem to really get no joy from cars.
A road car that can do 300mph is no more pointless than a road car that can do 200mph or 100mph or even 71mph if you just boil it down to the
legalities of life.
I'd rather VW had a few of their engineers working on crazy projects that create a bit of buzz and fun rather than having them all working on
optimising the closing noise of the latest Polo glovebox or something equally mundane.
Cheer up
Anyway, perhaps the Koenigsegg Regara might break 300mph first, its claiming over 1500bhp and 2000Nm of torque from a petrol/electric drivetrain.
http://jalopnik.com/the-amazing-tech-that-makes-the-koenigsegg-regera-a-hyp-1762221011
Actually its limited to 248mph by the engines redline.
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motorcycle_mayhem
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| posted on 2/3/16 at 07:08 PM |
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No Joy?... Well, certainly not on the road. Traffic, surface and enforcement. Misery.
Car designers seem to be focusing more on arranging their LED lights and how to integrate the phone, while owners seem to have no other wish for
'modification' than to arrange their number plate numbers and letters to produce something only meaningful to them. This is what it is.
Now... get that car on a track and it all makes sense. How long I(we) can do this before the NIMBY noise/environment brigade stop all such pointless
activity is open to some worry.
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mark chandler
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| posted on 2/3/16 at 07:31 PM |
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There are a plethora of cars that can exceed 200mph these days, car manufacturers are pushing the boundaries all the time.
300mph is a massive technical challenge, I,m sure it will get broken but we may have to wait for this.
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