posted November 09, 2001 03:08 AM            

This is definitely how it works for safety equipment (that's why you can register your '65 GTO and not have to retrofit it with 3-point seatbelts).

I wonder if the new "show-and-go" legislation allows for certain race cars to be driven on public roads. I can't imagine an old F1 car being certified for street use ...

posted December 02, 2001 07:28 AM            

...But even professional LeMans drivers can't handle it.

Another thing, 1000bhp is nothing new. Like someone said before, Max Power got 1000bhp out of a Nissan Skyline and a Toyota Supra I think. Even earlier, porsche had a sports racing car(the 917) that put out around 1100bhp in the late 70's early 80's. Same thing applies to some of the group B/Pikes peak rally cars. Audi actually had a 1000bhp out of a quattro but found it was too hard to drive.

Accepted, but 1000+bhp from an 8-litre W16 engine is bound to need rebuilding less often than 1000+bhp from a 2.6 skyline six, or a 3-litre supra six, or a 2.1 Audi five.

Nowadays it isn't hard to make a seriously fast car, just take something like a cahteram or westfield and put a half decent engine in. On the road, ye never gonna reach 240 mph and whats the point anyway, thats not real driving, anyone can do 240 on a straight bit of road, 30-120 is the time you really need. So just take ye Cahteram and slip a 260bhp 2.0 litre vauxhall engine in all for under £15,000 and you'll easily skin ferrari's, porsche's, although you'll probably only meet the odd boy racer in his nova.

I'd rather be in a Veyron on a rainy day. Also, I thought only girls drove novas

I can empathise with your final remark. In some ways I'm glad I only have a 1.8.

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posted December 02, 2001 11:38 AM               

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Originally posted by Jamal:
Another thing, 1000bhp is nothing new. Like someone said before, Max Power got 1000bhp out of a Nissan Skyline and a Toyota Supra I think. Same thing applies to some of the group B/Pikes peak rally cars. Audi actually had a 1000bhp out of a quattro but found it was too hard to drive.

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I know 1000HP+ is nothing new, but the Veyron is stock. Those cars you named do have 1000HP+, but they aren't stock aren't stock. Some aren't even street legal. The Veyron is 1000HP stock and street legal.

posted December 04, 2001 03:42 PM            

What I mean is, "stock" is only what the factory puts out. Whenever I look at an engine, I look at the potential of it. I.E.: the ability to strip it down and build it stronger/or the availibility of 'bolt-ons'/aftermarket parts.
Now, don't get me wrong, whether Bugatti offers extra parts for this or not, I don't think it's really going to need it, lol.....but it'd be a fun option

posted December 05, 2001 04:41 PM               

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Originally posted by HellOnWheels:
What I mean is, "stock" is only what the factory puts out. Whenever I look at an engine, I look at the potential of it. I.E.: the ability to strip it down and build it stronger/or the availibility of 'bolt-ons'/aftermarket parts.
Now, don't get me wrong, whether Bugatti offers extra parts for this or not, I don't think it's really going to need it, lol.....but it'd be a fun option

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I'm sure you could tune it somehow... Yeah, it would be kinda fun to tune a 1000HP stock engine.