Motor Trend: the “ten coolest things” about the Bugatti Veyron
A second key is required to program the car into its top “speed” mode.
How many other cars are ballsy enough to have a horsepower gauge?
The top of the engine is exposed; there’s no glass or other cover.
It’ll score you the best parking place at any restaurant anywhere in the world.
The audio system costs $30,000
Switch the stability control off, and it’ll spin all four wheels in third gear.
Going 0-to-250 mph takes less than a minute.
At full throttle in seventh gear, the Veyron gets less than three mpg.
What looks like a secondary rear spoiler is in fact an air brake.
Bugatti Requires a deposit of more than $350,000 just to place an order

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Wednesday, 7. December 2005, 11:42, by snoogans00 | |comment

 
1,000 horsepower is equivalent to roughly 2.6 billion joules per hour. A gallon (3.8 liters) of gasoline contains 132 million joules, so a 1,000-hp engine has to be able to burn just over 20 gallons of gasoline per hour.
However, car engines are only about one-quarter efficient -- three quarters of the gasoline's energy escapes as heat rather than as power to the wheels. So the engine actually has to be able to burn at least 80 gallons per hour, or 1.33 gallons (5 liters) per minute.
Let's convert over to metric. Gasoline requires about 14.7 kilograms of air to burn 1 kilogram of gas. Air weighs 1.222 kilograms per cubic meter at sea level. A gallon of gasoline weighs 2.84 kilograms. So the engine has to be able to process 2.84*1.33*14.7 kilograms of air per minute, or roughly 45 cubic meters of air per minute. That's 45,000 liters of air per minute.
If a V-8 engine is turning at 6,000 rpm, it can inhale a total of 24,000 cylinders' full of air per minute. If it needs to inhale 45,000 liters of air per minute, it works out to roughly 2 liters per cylinder-full. That's a 16-liter engine.

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I think it's safe to return :-) blank here I come

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I'm going to take an extended vacation until next year - although the 'other board' has been a lot quieter of late...

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just when I thought it was safe.....

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Hehehe,

They're lurking in the shadows waiting for us to return...

On another point though, I think the Air Marshalls reacted appropriately. Crazy or not, if you've got a man running away from you after having claimed he's carrying a bomb, I'd want him brought down too!

In this case the potential headcount was reduced to 1 in a couple of quick shots. That's what they're paid for and they acted correctly in my opinion (assuming we're being told the truth of course).

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I agree..... Minamize total casulties. The samething they did in London



I still don't understand the fixation with America.

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