Tell me how.
Besides, you're talking cross-purposes. Minimum weight, but I see acoustic insulation in there, with leather and wood and rear legroom and four doors and DOT legality and two transmissions (as you say) and at least one of them being an 4WD and no constraint on the number of turbos/superchargers and a V16 with at least 16L of displacement. So you end up with a car that's a few tons AND you want "RECOCKULOUS" handling which necessitates low weight (especially unsprung), a low center of gravity (good luck with that huge V16 and high roof), a rigid suspension which can handle the few tons you'll end up with which means you'll have to have suspension members overbuilt like God's chamber pot AND you want 20mpg at 5000HP at the wheels, which assuming a drivetrain loss of 10%, is 5555HP at the crank. Your transmissions will be extremely beefy to handle the massive torque of the engine (which will not be able to rev high to produce that HP with a lower torque), so say hello to more weight. I could go on and on but what you want is IMPOSSIBLE even with Hy-Bor, steel/Ti/Al MMCs, beryllium, silica aerogel, magnesium, etc.
i'd hire the entire ferrari and mclaren design teams, lock them in a room until they design me a super car so super, it puts superman to shame. Then I'd have them all killed, so they can't make a better car, and pay off the families.
You're completely misreading the design priorities.
Minimum weight on the individual components. But dammit, when I want luxury, I want LUXURY. I realize that certain performance aspects (in particular handling) will take a severe hit due to weight and size - but that's somewhat irrelevant. Get it as good as it gets with what you have. Minimum weight and low weight are very different things. Low weight involves designing with weight as a primary goal - minimum weight, which is what we're dealing with here involves designing and then making it as light as possible without compromising it. The idea is to be big enough to be useful, heavy enough to WORK, and manueverable enough to impress when compared to other vehicles of similar size and weight. In this case, something like a Ford Explorer seems a fitting comparison.
And 20MPG at 11tyHP won't happen - I know that much just from common sense. That will come from something like shutting off cylinders, which means decreased power. A 4L 4cyl engine should be able to move a 3-4T vehicle around just fine at highway speeds and could definitely compete for that 20MPG mark (assuming low drag from the other 12 cylinders worth of engine that are sitting there doing nothing)
In short, the underlying design goals are:
-Amusing levels of excess, fitting of a person with a billion dollars to spend on a car
-Luxury
-Penis extension
-Whoa, did that yacht just do that?
-Oh, and it might be fast as a byproduct of some of that excess. Or it could top out at 125. Doesn't really matter.
ultimatebob
Lifer
- Jul 1, 2001
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For a billion dollars, I could probably build my own super car business! Think about that one.... A new and improved model customized to my specifications every year, a steady income stream, plus motivation for other car makers to make their better super cars to compete with mine. Not only would I have the coolest ride in town, I'd be an inspiration to others! Who knows, maybe I get a trophy wife and a few yachts, too
To be honest, that's just the ATOT socially-accepted response for any question dealing with money. The OP expressly forbids this behavior, but the vast majority of AT'ers still cannot break this convention, probably due to some inner fear of appearing outwardly "irresponsible"
I'd tell them to make another one of these just for me
http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000023043113/
+ alot of fuel
and then an island, a helicopter, and spend the rest of my life in school and loitering
http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000023043113/
+ alot of fuel
and then an island, a helicopter, and spend the rest of my life in school and loitering
StrangerGuy
Diamond Member
- May 9, 2004
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Quiet. I wasn't thinking, I was pushing 9's. Do you know how overzealous you can get doing that?!
And you can supercharge them
But they only work with diesel fuel, while in the Abrams you can put almost any kind of petroleum-based liquid
meltdown75
Lifer
- Nov 17, 2004
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Build multi-million dollar garage with test track (which I would live in afterwards).
Build pizza powered car.
Use remaining money to buy pizza (for fuel and for eating).
Build pizza powered car.
Use remaining money to buy pizza (for fuel and for eating).
I'd make a Lexus GS330 (my current car-crush), and dip it in platinum. I'd pay someone to sit on my hood and wash bugs off the windshield as I drove around, and someone else to follow me around in another platinum dipped GS, so that when the first ran out of gas I could just get in the 2nd one, while the guy filled up the first one.
i'd build a land-barge like structure maybe something with tank treads
it would have of space across a ton of levels
not street legal but it would
be freaking sweet
basically a cruise ship like size except doesn't hold as many people but huge and does not have any tight passageways or rooms
basically a land cruise ship
i dont know how much $$ it would take i'd make it as large as I could for $1B
bah less than 13 feet tall limitation is lame
wasting $1B dollars on something that is marginally faster than today's supercars is a waste
it would have of space across a ton of levels
not street legal but it would
be freaking sweet
basically a cruise ship like size except doesn't hold as many people but huge and does not have any tight passageways or rooms
basically a land cruise ship
i dont know how much $$ it would take i'd make it as large as I could for $1B
bah less than 13 feet tall limitation is lame
wasting $1B dollars on something that is marginally faster than today's supercars is a waste
better yet....I'd get a honda civic...and put the world's biggest spoiler on it. I'd leave everything else stock, but get like a 50 story tall carbon fiber spoiler
Metron
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