anyone hear of this car?? Seen it??

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/barabus-tkr-worlds-fastest-car

I dont believe the stats on it...if someone wants to do a little more research on it please let me know what you find.

Click to read more...

 

[Loud3 10+ year member]

Carbon fiber body.

Power to weight would be quite impressive, I am sure.

Not quite sure about a 0-60 of less than 2 seconds, though?

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

0-60 of 2 seconds assueming you can shift fast enough---ariel atom.

Give a car that light weight with that much power some traction and either a continuosly variable or automatically shifting transmission and that kind of acceleration is feasable assumeing the driver can hold the wheel straight and not be afixeated by the g-forces.

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

i saw this one car on some british car show on Discovery channel... it was like a little aluminum framed go-kart with a supercharged civic engine... it beat some crotch rocket bike in a race. it was sexy.

It's called the Atom and it is made by Ariel. The version top gear tested was fully loaded and would cost around 30g's if i remember right.

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

It didnt beat 2seconds though....just a ferrari enzo.

 

[ItalynStylion 10+ year member]

I doubt it will do 270mph. I mean do you have any idea what aerodynamics are like going that fast?!?! Just keeping the car on the road is a chore over 200...

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

Had a 'boot' big enough to hold a sandwich and hte only stereo it had was the feeling of your head being sucked into the air intake for hte supercharger.

300hp to the ground is nothing to sneaze at when you weight what an F1 car weighs.

 

[ItalynStylion 10+ year member]

And how come the forum says its 10:49 when its 11:09? I mean even through time zones the minutes shouldnt change! WTF?!?

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

I doubt it will do 270mph. I mean do you have any idea what aerodynamics are like going that fast?!?! Just keeping the car on the road is a chore over 200...

Thank you for your great insite. I award you the CA.com smart guy degree.

European Engineers > joo

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

i saw this one car on some british car show on Discovery channel... it was like a little aluminum framed go-kart with a supercharged civic engine... it beat some crotch rocket bike in a race. it was sexy.

was it an Ultima GTR or a NobelGTR??

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

they have cars that can drive up-side down iirc with the amount of down force they produce.

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

was it an Ultima GTR or a NobelGTR??

Read the thread. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

Fastes??? What about the bugatti veyron quad-turbo? Does the veyron only have and estimated top speed because its so fast? I can swear i heard somewhere say it theoretically would go over 300 but maybe i'm crazy

 

[ItalynStylion 10+ year member]

they have cars that can drive up-side down iirc with the amount of down force they produce.

True, but when something produces as much down force as is needed to do that you also create a lot of drag and its hard to achieve a very high top speed...

 

[ItalynStylion 10+ year member]

Fastes??? What about the bugatti veyron quad-turbo? Does the veyron only have and estimated top speed because its so fast? I can swear i heard somewhere say it theoretically would go over 300 but maybe i'm crazy

I doubt it has the gearing to go that fast.

Doesnt that thing weigh like 2 tons? I remember it being really hefty for some reason