300mph In 30 Seconds...

[Dr. Feelgood]

Goodbye Ultimate Aero, this fugly little thing has just taken your title, and has beaten you by 85mph!!

The Acabion GTBO: The Car That Can Do 300mph In 30 Secs |Sky News|Technology

No points for looks, but the feeling would be incredible

[Catlin]

erm? lol and thats road legal?

[3DCarMan]

Sure is, Just look here: http://www.acabion.com/ and here: Acabion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and when I used to work in Geneva, I saw what was basiclly the prototype of that one, sleek looking thing... It used to be parked in the street, I'm amazed no one ever tried to grab it .

[crazy 989]

100mpg!!!! how the f*** did he do that man. it looks like a long mbike chassis, with a drag engine, its not very good if you crash at any speed in that thing though....even 40mph is probs life threatening

[younglion]

Originally Posted by crazy 989

100mpg!!!! how the f*** did he do that man. it looks like a long mbike chassis, with a drag engine, its not very good if you crash at any speed in that thing though....even 40mph is probs life threatening

100mpg is impressive but theres an opel speedster that also manages the same mpg...btw 340mph is crazy i mean you wouldnt get a to top speed before you run out of road

[The IC]

Originally Posted by younglion

...you wouldnt get a to top speed before you run out of road

...and at that point just before crashing horribly youd wish youd just used a plane

and regarding the looks, it has failed to retain the coolness of either a supercar (or bike...) or a fighter jet...

[Dr. Feelgood]

...more speed holes maybe, huh IC?

I'd still stick with a Zonda for my supercar-o-choice. May not be as fast, but at least it doesn't look like a tampon manufacturer designed it for Flash Gordon...

[The IC]

Originally Posted by Dr. Feelgood

...more speed holes maybe, huh IC?

I'd still stick with a Zonda for my supercar-o-choice. May not be as fast, but at least it doesn't look like a tampon manufacturer designed it for Flash Gordon...

thats right...it doesnt look like you could grate cheese on it, nor is it bristling with missiles...its NOT COOL

i also thought it looked like a tampon lol...and a Zonda would be alright if no speed-hole deluxe GT/LMP cars were available

the designers "grand vision of the future" of special big long raised straight roads everywhere with his cars zipping along them makes me raise an eyebrow too...if they built that in Aus, people would be spearing off the road dying all the time, because theyd almost certainly develop huge potholes within a week

[tom120934]

Any video of the beast at high speed ? Figures are really impressive, but I'm looking forward to see them validated !

At the moment, I keep my eyes on the Ariel 500 : 500hp, 500kg. Supercharged V8 made from two Hayabusa 4cylinders. See it there : Ils ont osé ! Ariel Atom 500 V8 - 500 chevaux / 500 kg par Le blog auto: actualités automobile et sport automobile

The same engine is available in a Seven : Caterham RS V8: folie pure par Le blog auto: actualités automobile et sport automobile

[Dr. Feelgood]

Can you imagine these things on Australian roads? One of those things could FIT in our pot-holes

You have to give them a thumbs-up for looking to the future. At least their idea is original-ish.

...and that Ariel is pretty cute, but it just looks like a shortened, fattened F1 car. No thumbs up for the designers here, but the power would be astonishing. They'd need to adopt paddle-shifting to get everyday people experiencing it's acceleration though... Every test of the Atom I saw, they always mentioned the acceleration of something ridiculous like 3-seconds to 100kph, "if you can change gears that fast"...

[SilverChev454]

looks like a fighter jet cockpit on a sportsbike chassie.

it's perty cool.

[younglion]

Originally Posted by Dr. Feelgood

they always mentioned the acceleration of something ridiculous like 3-seconds to 100kph, "if you can change gears that fast"...

i guess the stig will be the only person that would be able to do that