anyone hear of this car?? Seen it??

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.

 
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.

 
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.

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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