1,000 Horsepower Cars

[Mike_Mackin]

"Someone told me once that to get a new technology off and running it takes anywhere from 10 to 15 years," says Ford president and chief operating officer Nick Scheele. "I think that's pretty reasonable."

AP [ap.tbo.com]

[lazerzubb]

This car [koenigsegg.se], will be launched with a 1000 horsepower engine, next year (might even be this year).

[lawman]

Holy smoke, I know how top fuel dragsters and funny cars do it, but how they gonna get all that horsepower to the ground?

lawman

[weisinator]

Tire friction coefficient and the weight of the vehicle (particularly the weight over the drive wheels) determines how much of that power is transferred.

Useless Factoid: 1988-1996 GM W-Body coupes ( Grand Prix/Cutlass/Regal/Lumina) have a 1% lower Drag Coefficient than that "supercar". (.297 for the GM Coupes and .30 for the Koenigsegg)

Too bad they only have 15-20% of the power.

Added: Who would Crash That Car? [koenigsegg.se]

[ritch_b]

There's always Bugatti's [bugatti-cars.de] new Veyron with 1001HP.

Talk about overkill - 160BHP is enough for me...

:-)

[SlyGuy]

1000HP is a little much for me too.

I was totally satisfied with the 550HP my old car [wreckedexotics.com] had...

..on the other hand maybe that had a little to many horses for me too.

;)

- Chad

[ritch_b]

As accidents go, I can beat that one SlyGuy!

Rest in pieces, my lovely Scirocco [ritch.org.uk]!...

:-/

[Travoli]

It's not that difficult. The Toyota Supra Turbo 3.0 liter 2JZ-GTE can reliably handle 900 horsepower without internal modification. It came to American shores in 1994.

I'm getting mine at the end of this year :)

[lawman]

Assumption: All that horsepower is for acceleration, sometimes from a standing start and sometimes from a roll.

I guess I should've said "assuming you want to be the fastest vehicle from stop light to stoplight, how ya gonna manage all that horsepower without going up in smoke?"

[Travoli]

smoking the tires is a bad thing?

[lawman]

Not if you're just showin' off. :)

lawman

[gsx]

But if you like British cars, try this from the same company that make "old mans" Rovers:

[xpower-mg.com...]

Not quite 1000 bhp but very close.