If you could build a car...

[Linux23]

what would you call it, and what would be the specs on your vehicle?

 

[OS]

-Fast looking coupe (ALA NSX, ferrari, mclaren F1)
-V8/10/12 turboed (with a variable boost dial of course)
-breathing liquid oxygen (instead of using air and/or nitrous as the oxidizer)
-AWD w/ slicks
-titanium parts(whenever possible), frame and body panels


For quick calculations sake, we'll say it's a 5 liter V8. Assuming honda like specific output (100 hp/liter), the engine would output 500 hp. Assuming linear physical relationships (I don't know if this is valid or not), with air composition at 21% oxygen, a pure oxygen breathing combustion would be 5 times more powerful assuming sea level air pressure, giving you 2500 hp. Pressurize the combustion to 14 psi, (double typical air pressure) would again double the power output, giving you 5000 hp.

With the car being made of mostly titanium, I suspect the car would weigh 2500 pounds tops. Using the HP/Qmile calculator floating around the net, a 2500 pound car with 5000 hp would run the Q mile in 5 seconds.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Hmm i would make it out of fiberglass and call it the Johnny Knoxvette like this one here

 

[JimmyEatWorld]

Magnetic car which releases a cloud of charged magnetic microscopic filings, which it uses to hover on controlled by a sohpisticated monitoring system uplinked to a real time micro-weather system to predict the movement of your magnetic cloud and to position the car with it micro jets in a position to reach the direction you wish to travel. The cloud you pass will be sucked up as you go to recycle the cloud filings as much as possible. It would be in the shape of a moderately sized sports coupe with titanium alloy frame, and carbon fiber paneling. Styling would be similar to the new Nissan Z.

I would call it Kit....and he would talk to me and we would solve crime together and get tons of chicks

 

[WolverineGator]

>>>what would you call it, and what would be the specs on your >>>vehicle?

Most importantly:
It would get the equivalent of 150+ miles per gallon (by using composite lightweight parts, regenerative brakes, flywheels***). It would run on LPG, fuel cells, Ethanol, M85, gasoline, or flubber.

It would offer respectable performance:

0-60 ~7 seconds
top speed at least 100
good handling
quiet, under 70dB at 70mph.

reasonable price ($25k-$35k)
range: 500 miles

You asked for what I wanted and this is it! Such a car doesn't exist today, so I choose to have reasonable price as my top car purchasing criteria. This means I will rely on my college engineering friends that now work for Ford to help me get A,B, or X plan cars!

I keep telling them to design me a car with the above specs! Unfortunately my friends manage assembly lines for AC ducts, radio fascias, and control knobs.


***A little bit of an aside on flywheels:
rotating on magnetic bearings at 100,000 rpm on gimbals, a 2 or 3 pound flywheel in your car could cut 0-60 times by 2-3 seconds and increase gas mileage at the same time.