£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar

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Thu 11 Jun 2009 16:05
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - ifithelps
tinyurl.com/n3xbch

OK, so it's a £50 Golf with £60k of modifications - still a good story.
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Thu 11 Jun 2009 16:14
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - maz64
Andy added: "The biggest problem is that once you get over 160 you can only drive it in a straight line because the steering goes wobbly."
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Thu 11 Jun 2009 17:23
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - Lud
'It's all tuned inside.'

You don't say. I wouldn't have minded a bit more detail on how 700hp is extracted from 1850cc, even with a turbocharger. What else? Nitrous oxide?

No mention either of the 4wd which must be present to get that 0-60 figure.

The Golf looks good and makes a good noise though. Don't fancy that other thing much. All mahf and no traasis...

:o}
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Thu 11 Jun 2009 17:48
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - rtj70
I think the clue is in "I drive in drag races" Lud. So it may be road legal but only when using something like nitrous oxide does it go fast in a straight line.

What that quality paper is forgetting is the Bugatti was engineered to go fast in a straight line and keep going fast (until it runs out of fuel of course) and do it without fuss. The standard car will do 253mph but I think a version is available that does over 270mph.

Edited by rtj70 on 11/06/2009 at 17:48

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Thu 11 Jun 2009 17:45
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - rtj70
Focus you beat me to it. I was going to post the same.

The Veyron took a long time to come to market due to the need for engineering. It can safely go at the speeds it can and stop as well. All in luxury. And it could go faster if it were not limited due to things like tyres, probably a bit of physics, etc.

If I had £60k to spend I'd not spend it on doing up a £50 Golf :-) Now if he took a £20k Golf and spent £40k that would be almost as stupid.
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Thu 11 Jun 2009 18:07
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - maz64
I highlighted the comment about only going in a straight line because it made me laugh, not trying to demean his efforts. We need more people like him :-)

BTW I think Fifth Gear featured a road legal drag racing Cortina or something (I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Cortina actually) that IIRC could do the 0-60 in 2 secs or under. Great fun at traffic lights.
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Thu 11 Jun 2009 18:09
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - maz64
BTW I think Fifth Gear featured a road legal drag racing Cortina or something


www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwK9Lbfx5Q

0-60 in 1s allegedly
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Thu 11 Jun 2009 21:32
£50 Golf faster than £1m supercar - bathtub tom
It seems to have a radiator in the rear valance and pipes feeding air from the rear side windows down to that area. Cooling for the rear diff?
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