Recession? What Recession?

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Recession? What Recession?

Post by Falcon » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:10 pm

Got this email today, and thought id share

So, it seems that this "global recession" has not impacted negatively on everyone.
Check this out!
It's a Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi oil billionaire (naturally).
Featuring the newly developed V10 quad turbo with 1,600 horsepower and 2800nm of torque
0-100km/h in less than 2secs, 1/4 mile in 6.89secs running on biofuel.
That is NOT stainless steel people. It's WHITE GOLD!!

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Re: Recession? What Recession?

Post by hellboy » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:17 pm

Shite !!

Thats nice
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Re: Recession? What Recession?

Post by Obsc3ne » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:25 pm

Falcon wrote:0-100km/h in less than 2secs, 1/4 mile in 6.89secs running on biofuel.
I would very much like to see that proved tbh, 6.89 on street tyres with 1600 hp O_o

Very nice car though

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Re: Recession? What Recession?

Post by slobb11 » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:52 pm

Obsc3ne wrote:I would very much like to see that proved tbh, 6.89 on street tyres with 1600 hp O_o
I think the term "street tyres" should be loosely used in this case lol.
I've seen some "street tyres" that were more a soft compound slick than anything else. Street-legal track day tyres for example.
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Re: Recession? What Recession?

Post by Obsc3ne » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:35 pm

slobb11 wrote:
Obsc3ne wrote:I would very much like to see that proved tbh, 6.89 on street tyres with 1600 hp O_o
I think the term "street tyres" should be loosely used in this case lol.
I've seen some "street tyres" that were more a soft compound slick than anything else. Street-legal track day tyres for example.
I understand that point of it, but the 2nd highest class of NZ drag racing is called top doorslammer Image, they run 6.30's-6.70's with about 2000-2500 hp, on a chassis, suspension, drive train, tyre etc. set-up that is only designed to run the 1/4 mile runs

6.89 would be the fastest street legal car (on the 1/4 mile) in the world by just under a second, so I'm calling bs on that figure

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Re: Recession? What Recession?

Post by slobb11 » Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:34 pm

The 0-100 in less than 2 seconds sounds a little optimistic too actually.
That car does NOT look light...so that's a whole crap-load of energy needing to be transferred into the tarmac in an awfully short amount of time. Even a 4-wheel drive would struggle....a 1600hp RWD???? lol.
I can see it doing 0-100 cubic metres of tyre-smoke in under 2 seconds....
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Re: Recession? What Recession?

Post by Falcon » Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:00 pm

I dont think any of the 'stats' are true, just to make the car more impressive :larf:
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