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Old 01-13-2005, 11:24 PM   #151
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Re: Fastest Production Car

thats what fuel tanks are for aren't they
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Old 01-13-2005, 11:40 PM   #152
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Re: Fastest Production Car

you have read too much into the tyre issue - i believe the tyres weren't shaved to full racing slicks,as i previously stated, but comparable to the tyres available today, that is minimal tread.

still all beside the point, the car is a production car
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Old 01-15-2005, 11:03 AM   #153
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But it's not a production car if it's not road legal.....

..and yes fuel tanks are for carrying the fuel but refuelling on a gas station with 107-octane isn't an option
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Old 01-19-2005, 03:58 PM   #154
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Re: Fastest Production Car

The fastest street car must be a Donkervoort. It's a lot faster then the Carrera GT and even the enzo. On the Nordschleife it was 17 seconds quicker per lap than a Carrera GT and whith only 270bhp to do it.
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Old 01-20-2005, 07:56 AM   #155
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Fastest around the Nord' is one thing, absolute top speed quite another... and this thread was always about the latter.
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Old 01-23-2005, 05:02 PM   #156
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Re: Fastest Production Car

The tyres were a custom made version of what is available today. 1980s, the technology and tyre choice was not as wide. but the tyres are street legal.

the enzo, nissan patrol, f50, lincoln navigator, the new hideous ford suv/ute are all very much illegal to drive through much of the UK, are they not prduction cars??

Useless point, but its great fun reading your replies 993...
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Old 01-27-2005, 07:23 AM   #157
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Re: Re: Fastest Production Car

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The tyres were a custom made version of what is available today. 1980s, the technology and tyre choice was not as wide. but the tyres are street legal.

the enzo, nissan patrol, f50, lincoln navigator, the new hideous ford suv/ute are all very much illegal to drive through much of the UK, are they not prduction cars??

You just don't know if those tyres were legal so let's just leave it at that.
........as for the rest of your comment I can only answer this: man, what are you ON?
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Old 01-27-2005, 09:34 PM   #158
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Re: Fastest Production Car

shaved, does not denote brought back to slicks, doing that would create severe tyre instability. The tyre was brought back to lesser tread depth to prevent gas and heat pockets which can form the bass of large grooves and are able to sheare off a piece of tread , this therefore maintains the integrety of the tyre and basically street legal. (dependent on the exact depth of the grooves, some countries have more lax laws with regard to groove depth, but anyway millions of ppl drive around everyday on shitty tyres, trying to risk my life for me) Which brings me back to my other point regarding different countries/regions having different regulations.

Oh and i forgot to mention, if u drive by any decent servo or car mart or auto store (whatever u call it) then u'll find fuel addatives, which boost your octane levels (aka fucking your car up, unless ur driving a top shelf vehicle), i saw one the other day that promissed 104octane from 98. And that was at a dodgy little shell.
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Old 01-29-2005, 11:41 PM   #159
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I must say the McLaren F1. But not for long... Veyron baby. 252mph.
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Old 01-30-2005, 09:07 AM   #160
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Re: Fastest Production Car

"The car is electronically limited to 400km/h (248 mph)" I know its just 4 mph but still.... (Veyron)
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Old 01-31-2005, 09:11 AM   #161
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Translation from autobild.de with the help of AltaVista (you'll get the point!)

Speed record.
Faster's did not go.
A Porsche 911 of the tuner 9ff set up a new speed record for to road-certified vehicles - to 388 km/h.

12.12.2004 - Nardo. The speed world record for to road-certified vehicles comes again made of Germany. Nearly six years, after McLaren with the F1 had screwed the record mark on 386,7 km/h, the measuring pole slipped again a bit more highly.

Jan Fatthauer, owner and chief engineer of 9ff, drove the record maximum personally: 388 km/h on the round course of Nardo. The 9ff-V400 on basis Porsche 996 GT2 carries out 840 HP and 880 Nm torque - for achievement enough, in order to lift the sportsman theoretically over the 400 km/h mark.

Contact 9ff Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH, 44319 Dortmund, www.9ff.de

(original german article here: http://www.autobild.de/aktuell/neuhe...tikel_id=7707#)

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Old 01-31-2005, 12:19 PM   #162
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Re: Fastest Production Car

Guinness book of World Records says the McLaren F1 is the fastest production road car. *aftermarket cars idk but factoy is McLaren* at 255.48 they did a re-run 2 years in teh salt flats here in america.
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Old 02-03-2005, 06:51 AM   #163
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That's news to me. That's way faster than the 240-243mph previously recorded. Any link?
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Old 02-03-2005, 12:42 PM   #164
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Re: Fastest Production Car

I'll try to find it till then here Bugatti 16/4 veyron and Dauer 962 top speeds.
2002 Bugatti 16/4 veyron 252.3mph
Dauer 962 250 mph.
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Old 02-03-2005, 06:08 PM   #165
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Re: Fastest Production Car

Its nice to see a porsche way up there. No doubt will sell very well, especially if the Sultan was still buying whole race car teams. What are they asking for it??

And do they make it in right hand drive (let me guess...no)

And with different wheels...hideous
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