standard veyron abit slow

so much about the guarantee and Longlife-service..:indiff: utterly pointless. In my books, that's 1 Veyron less on the roads.:grumpy:

and why do some tuner car fanatics always bring some effin souped up viper into discussion as soon as veyron is mentioned? tunercar is tunercar, veyron does what it does from factory and does it so well that no tunercar can match it, PERIOD. :mad:

if there will be a day that there will be a production car that beats veyron it grunt, top speed and luxury, then oyu can bring that into discussion. but for gods sake, leave vipers and vettes and other bolt-on plastic buckets out of discussion.
 
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At 253mph the drag on a Bugatti Veyron is roughly (and I stress roughly) 1,352lb (613.5kg) - that's more than half a ton of air it's fighting through. To do that, it requires about 912hp.

(for those interested, the figures are):
Rolling resistance = 56lb = Weight (4,160lb) * 0.0135
Air resistance @ 253mph = 1296lb = Drag coefficient (0.355) * Frontal area (22.28 square feet) * Speed (253mph) * Speed (253mph) * 0.00256
Total resistance @ 253mph = 1,352lb = Rolling resistance + air resistance.
Power required @ 253mph = 912hp = Total resistance (1,352lb) * Speed (253mph)/375


Rather than working the numbers through again to calculate the new top speed, we can instead note that there's three multiplications of speed for every power - or that for every increase in speed, we need a CUBE increase in power... To increase speed 50% we'd need 3.4 times the power (1.05 * 1.05 * 1.05 = 3.375)...

So, if we shovelled 1,200hp at it (31.5% more power), we'd get 9.6% more speed - 277mph. An increase of only 24mph over the standard car for a near-300hp increase.
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Now if only I could finish up my next two years in physics by performing those calculations...
 

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