When a car has more horsepower than Churchill Downs
Rimac's company, Rimac Automobili, is looking to overcome that with next year's C_Two hypercar, whose claimed specs could make Han Solo jealous: 1,888 horsepower, a 1.85-second throw at 60 MPH. And a 258-m.P.H. Peak. The Tesla Roadster, introduced in 2017 but in production limbo, claims a similar speed of 1.9 seconds at 60 MPH. If the claims are true, they would become the first show cars to break the two-second mark from 0 to 60.
For builders or buyers, that obsession with times from 0 to 60 can be reducing. They describe only a straight line speed of short bursts. Hit winding roads or race tracks, and the best gas-powered cars still outperform comparable E.V.S, disabled by deadweight batteries that bleed out quickly during high-speed combat. Porsche's shiny Taycan sedan has the E.V. of production. Lap record on the benchmark Nürburgring circuit in Germany, reaching 60 MPH. In 2.4 seconds. However, the company's 911 GT2 RS petrol sports car and the Panamera Turbo S sedan are decisively faster on the 20 km course.
Jerod Shelby underscored those old-school advantages on October 10 with his SSC Tuatara. On a closed seven-mile stretch of Highway 160 in Nevada, Shelby's fantastic $ 1.9 million hypercar, with 1,750 horsepower on E85 gasoline and ethanol fuel, broke the world speed record for production cars. With British pilot Oliver Webb making the dangerous attempt, the Tuatara reached 331.15 m.P.H. In one race and a 316-m.P.H. Average over runs in opposite directions, topping 304.8-m.P.H. Bugatti Chiron rhythm since September 2019.
Shelby, unrelated to the late Carroll Shelby, plans to build 100 copies of the Tuatara in Washington state. He says that even if most customers never see 150 miles per hour, they can still enjoy the exciting design and handling, and bragging rights of owning the fastest car in the world.
"Who would have thought, 50 years ago, that someone would drive a 1,750 horsepower car on the street, that you could go to dinner with your wife and valet?" Mr. Shelby said. “For us, to exceed 300 m.P.H. It is an amazing marketing tool to show the prowess of our engineering. But this is not a speed we would never want one of our clients to do. "
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