JoelP
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 06:50 AM |
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believe this?
http://www.kitcarusa.com/?shownews=45
says 0-200 in 9 seconds, the most unbelievable bit being the 100-200 in 3 seconds. Must be a typo...
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smart51
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 07:07 AM |
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4s to 60, 6 to 100, 7.5 to 150 and 9 to 200. A 6 litre 12 cylinder car should be quick but those figures don't seem right. A car will get
slower as you go up through the gears, there is no way round that. At first I thought it might be turbo lag or something but that would only be the
case if you did 0-200 in one gear.
The other worrying thing is that he said he did 0-200 on the road.
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NigeEss
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 07:08 AM |
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Awesome if it's true, and all that with belt drive !
Now where did I leave my old Daf 66 
[Edited on 20/7/07 by NigeEss]
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caber
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 07:19 AM |
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That engine looks like a 1920s Aero engine! I can't believe it would work with a large flywheel, the weight of that to make it effective plus
two V12 engines would make it far too heavy to go round corners apart from the gyroscopic action of the flywheel that would also act against changes
in direction! Ithink this was posted a week early for an April Fool
Caber
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twybrow
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 07:20 AM |
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Oh my, we had a Daf 66, awesome car! slow as hell, one gear forward, one back, and a squashy button for the windscreen washer. Brilliant.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 07:41 AM |
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Longer to get from 60-100 than from 150-200. I smell bullsh*t 
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NeilP
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 07:41 AM |
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Hmm, Cardi is a russian watch manufacturer?...
If you pay peanuts...
Mentale, yar? Yar, mentale!
Drive it like you stole it!
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russbost
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 08:27 AM |
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Chris Beddows is a recognised figure in the kitcar scene in the States, but did he write the article? - which particular bit of road in Europe did
they think it was safe for motoring journo's (renowned for their driving skills) to do 200mph on?
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RazMan
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 08:49 AM |
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Interesting to note that there are no pictures of the engine bay or any of the 'all wheel belt drive'
Also, I can't see anyone being allowed to do 235 mph in their pride and joy on a simple dual carriage way, especially not a motor journalist can
you? Remember all the fuss when James May did his 200mph run in the Bugatti Veyron?
What's that smell?
[Edited on 20-7-07 by RazMan]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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bbwales
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 08:50 AM |
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Hi,
Whilst This maybe in MPH I would think that it is more likely to be in KPH, especially after reading that he was doing 235 on the return journey.
Bob
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smart51
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 11:36 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bbwales
Whilst This maybe in MPH I would think that it is more likely to be in KPH
It is an American website. I doub't they even know what km/h is.
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ed_crouch
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 12:14 PM |
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Much easier just to do 88MPH and plug the flux capacitor in.
Could get back to the factory before you left, and it'd look like there was 2 cars, both of which you could sell.
Loadsa profit...
Of course, if you drive at a pace approaching the speed of light, time will dilate and then there'll be loads of time to build an even faster
car...
Ed.
I-iii-iii-iii-ts ME!
Hurrah.
www.wings-and-wheels.net
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RazMan
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 01:34 PM |
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Oh dear, Ed's been sniffing the thinners again
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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alister667
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 02:13 PM |
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"Designed by the son of the pre-war Auto Union V16 race car"
Wow, imagine your dad is a pre-war race car!!
http://members.lycos.co.uk/alister667/
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RazMan
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 03:10 PM |
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Interesting - Cardi made this BMW V12 engined car ten years ago.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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Peteff
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 03:18 PM |
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Uncanny.
It looks like a Veyron prototype.
[Edited on 20/7/07 by Peteff]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Rob Palin
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 04:48 PM |
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Witha car of that shape, size and 'only' ~800bhp, 235mph would be his absolute Vmax.
There's just no physical way he'd be able to get to that in 7 seconds - despite people talking about an aerodynamic brick wall, it's
actually it's an asymptotic thing so those last few mph would take ages.
Some very smelly claims in that article i think.
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gazza285
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| posted on 20/7/07 at 04:59 PM |
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believe this?
No.
Nice engine though, with it's exhaust valves on show like that, although it does look like a Duxford Liberty engine.
DO NOT PUT ON KNOB OR BOLLOCKS!
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 23/7/07 at 10:48 PM |
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Its a shame there isin't any more info about the car... I'd like to think its true!
About the Flywheel acting like a Giroscope and making it hard to turn... if you have 2 counter rotating flywheels (like a Chinook helicopers rotors)
they'd cancel each others Giroscopic out.
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