Bugatti's veyron is real

[Demon-Xanth]

Ferrari's F430 makes 490HP and gets 11/16.
Aston Martin's Vanquish makes 460HP and gets 12/19
Dodge's Viper makes 505HP and gets 12/20 and is less efficient?

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
In a related topic, i saw a dodge motorcycle featuring the viper engine at a chicago auto show a couple years ago. For top speed it was just listed at "300+ MPH" and had been actually run on a track at 251MPH.

Was that the Tomahawk concept bike?

 

[Apex]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Harriet ******
supercharge a dodge viper, bam. 1000hp and torque. why was it so hard for bugatti to make 1000hp?

Isnt the engine powering the viper the least efficient engine on the market in sportscars?

A lot more displacement than competing engines that crank out just as much HP.

The viper is just a brute force method of building power.

HP/L is NOT A MEASURE OF EFFICIENCY, POWER, OR ANYTHING ELSE USEFUL OUTSIDE OF A CLASS WITH A DISPLACEMENT LIMITATION.

MPG is efficency. % of gas energy converted to power/torque is efficency. HP/LB is a measure of performance. HP is a measure of performance. LB-ft is a measure of performance. HP/$ is a measure that's really impressive

HP/L and OMFGUBERHIGHREDLINE are just pen waving figures and miscellaneous trivia that don't mean anything at all in the real world. They're only useful when rulebooks mandate something that makes them important.

Amen to that.