Ride the Lightning
Dec. 8th, 2010 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So, the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4. The world's fastest street legal car with a top speed in excess of 250mph. At speed, the car's configuration changes to increase downward air pressure to hold the car on the road. There's an air brake that kicks in when you slow down from high speed. It goes from 0 to 60mph in under 3 seconds. It also starts at just under $2 million and quickly goes past 2.5 once you throw in the cup holders.
This is a car that, even if I could afford it, I'd be completely unqualified to drive at regular speeds let alone the thrilling velocities that you bought it for in the first place. But in a video game? Ah...video games.
I just took the Veyron out for a 43 mile race. I did it in under 15 minutes. Sure, it's a video game (Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit -- it's fun!) so there has to be some allowance for "game" physics, but still. Thing is a god damned rocket.
And it comes in a lovely shade of blue...
Tom
So, the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4. The world's fastest street legal car with a top speed in excess of 250mph. At speed, the car's configuration changes to increase downward air pressure to hold the car on the road. There's an air brake that kicks in when you slow down from high speed. It goes from 0 to 60mph in under 3 seconds. It also starts at just under $2 million and quickly goes past 2.5 once you throw in the cup holders.
This is a car that, even if I could afford it, I'd be completely unqualified to drive at regular speeds let alone the thrilling velocities that you bought it for in the first place. But in a video game? Ah...video games.
I just took the Veyron out for a 43 mile race. I did it in under 15 minutes. Sure, it's a video game (Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit -- it's fun!) so there has to be some allowance for "game" physics, but still. Thing is a god damned rocket.
And it comes in a lovely shade of blue...
Tom
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Date: 2010-12-09 03:25 am (UTC)Yeah, but where am I going to find a closed track for me to really open it up on? Plus, I get the feeling that I'll be cruising along the Pike and I'll look down and "oh, 180mph, thought I was doing 70" and then a pothole or my poor reaction time will do me in and save the cop the trouble of writing the speeding ticket.
later
Tom
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Date: 2010-12-09 03:25 am (UTC)But yeah, I'd totally tool around in one given the chance. :)
later
Tom