X2010 is almost a reality...

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I actually just watched this episode last week and thought the same exact thing but this car seems to have allot of issues that need to be cleaned up first.
 
The fastest street legal car tested by Top Gear around TGTT.
But it's not ranked because the model they tested couldn't clear the speedbump.
 
Just watched the video and I must say it's extremly similar to X2010.
Just add 1000 more hp, closed wheels and a fan system and you have a X2010.
 
The big design flaw with the Capparo is it's aero dynamic. Fast enough, and you get enough downforce to press the car to the ground and get great cornering max speed but if you are not fast enough, the downforce won't work as the air flow is not moving fast enough over the car, to generate the df.

That's were the Red Bull comes in. Newey is using the turbine to suck the car to the ground and generating a ground effect, also at low speed, just like the 2J.

Another car, pritty close to the Red Bull is the Holme CanAm:
http://www.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Hulme-CanAm-2010-Sydney-Motorshow2.jpg

available as coupe and spyder
 
SimonK
Oh look, it's *this* thread again.

Search function peoples. :)
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Yeah, I was going to point out some stuff but I've already done this before. I don't feel like doing it all again.

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Well, okay..., one thing....

zr1chris
I guess we know where they stole the design for the X2010.
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Yeah, the X2010's design comes from logic. It's based on the best understanding of vehicle aerodynamics that we presently have. They're not going to make something totally different from the Caparo T1 just for the sake of being different. If you imagine a Formula One car with some bodywork placed in front of and over the wheels to reduce the aerodynamic drag on the wheels, you basically get the Caparo T1 and X2010. It's a design that just makes sense.
 
This makes no sense, this car imitates an F1 car and comes nowhere close in terms of performance. It seems if you had posted a picture of an F1 car and added that the x2010 used the principle with a lot of expanding features then you would have a more logical and obvious point
 
porsche 9146
the caparo T1 is a car that does things which are physically possible. the X1 does not. they are thus incomparable.

that is all.
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You are misinformed. The physics behind the x2010 are very real. Its just hasn't been built in real life, but it can be...
 
nervous24
You are misinformed. The physics behind the x2010 are very real. Its just hasn't been built in real life, but it can be...
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Very real... on paper? but like you said it hasn't be tested for "real" real.
I mean a turbine that suck a car to the ground would take a lot of power and add to the over all weight of the car. To produce the effect of a 200 mph wind must have a cost.
Even this car in the video had some serious handling problems that probably was not reveal until the first test drive.
 
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I mean a turbine that suck a car to the ground would take a lot of power and add to the over all weight of the car. To produce the effect of a 200 mph wind must have a cost.
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This has been done very successfully before you know.
 
Whoever is saying that the X2010 is physically impossible should just stop playing GT5. The physics behind X2010 are real, it's simulated on the best driving simulator you can buy and F1 world champion racing team worked on it with world champion F1 driver as a test driver.
If they say it's possible then it is - they know more about you.
Why it's not built? There's no need for it in today's world and the cost would be immense. The only way it can get built is if some multi-billionaire sponsores it.

As for the immense G-force - the driver would have to use a G-suit (the same suit jet fighter pilots use) and the problem would be solved.

As for the fan system - it has been successfully used before.
 
Right. All they did in GT5 with the X2010 was to dumb down it's physic engine and made the car more arcade like . For example I can brake just as fast with ABS off with brake bias set to front 0 back 10 as with front 10 back 0.
 
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Right. All they did in GT5 with the X2010 was to dumb down it's physic engine and made the car more arcade like . For example I can brake just as fast with ABS off with brake bias set to front 0 back 10 as with front 10 back 0.
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The downforce of the car pushes it evenly thus allowing it to brake without twisting/spinning.
The ammount of grip X2010 has is insane - it makes the F1 look like a '99 Fiesta (exaggerating now but I hope you got my point).
 
Yev
The downforce of the car pushes it evenly thus allowing it to brake without twisting/spinning.
The ammount of grip X2010 has is insane - it makes the F1 look like a '99 Fiesta (exaggerating now but I hope you got my point).
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Of course it's insane since even the video in Gt5 stated it only exist in Gt5. You need to try Wipeout some time as it's even more insane.
This reminds me of a Nascar driver who tried to pass someone using the wall like he did in a sim. Of course he damage his car a lot more IRL than in the game.
 
Yev
Whoever is saying that the X2010 is physically impossible should just stop playing GT5. The physics behind X2010 are real, it's simulated on the best driving simulator you can buy and F1 world champion racing team worked on it with world champion F1 driver as a test driver.
If they say it's possible then it is - they know more about you.
Why it's not built? There's no need for it in today's world and the cost would be immense. The only way it can get built is if some multi-billionaire sponsores it.

As for the immense G-force - the driver would have to use a G-suit (the same suit jet fighter pilots use) and the problem would be solved.

As for the fan system - it has been successfully used before.
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Epic fanboy drivel.
 
Well, the X2010's body design does echo the Caparo's T1. After all, if something works so effectively well, why not imitate it? :)

Still, it is a shame that it is not to terribly useful in slow speed cornering, but then again, I do wonder if the car was given the proper tires for the job.
 
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Of course it's insane since even the video in Gt5 stated it only exist in Gt5. You need to try Wipeout some time as it's even more insane.
This reminds me of a Nascar driver who tried to pass someone using the wall like he did in a sim. Of course he damage his car a lot more IRL than in the game.
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The fact of the matter is the X2010 could be built in this day and age if given enough money. I mean seriously, it's pretty much a more aerodynamic F1 car with the Chaparral Fan system and a extremely high revving turbo motor.

Now, could the tires withstand the Gs? Will the motor last more then 10 minutes? In theory it works, does it in practice? We have no idea, but it's nice to see "What could be" in GT5.
 
Don't need another Caparo/X1/X2010 topic, as this is being discussed elsewhere.
 
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