0-60 in 0.6 seconds

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http://www.roadandtrack.com/article...article_id=6466


The new Mach 5 car that was built for the Speed Racer movie is sick. The stats are unbelievable.

0-60= 0.6
1/4 mile= 2.7@197.1 mph

 

Linky no worky.

 

you are gonna have to show more than that.
i couldn't find these stats anywhere.
maybe it does that in teh movie

 

lulz its fake

 

luz indeed

1/4 in under 3 seconds at 197 mph, lulz. Would rip your damn face off in the process on the way there and pretty much destroy any drivetrain made out of anything except for adamantium. I wish I had a car that hooked from a dead stop that hard

Don't you guys remember the original KITT though? His specs were pretty insane....

 

I don't know why the link isn't working but if you go to Road and Track website and scroll down you'll see it. Please someone else read it snd tell me what you think.

 

It says in the article itself its fake...

 

It pays to read.

It says the last part of the article is fake. I also have the hard copy of the magazine with the official nubers of the car, but there is no way I can show you that unless you go and pick up a copy for yourself. I don't think it hit the stands yet but it should soon. I am a subscriber.

 

 

Are you 7 years old?

 

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?

section_id=31&article_id=6466

Put them together

 

I just read the article yesterday. Humorous article at best but, easily one of the most uninteresting Road & Track issues I have read in at least a decade.

 

It's their April issue. Road and Track does an annual April Fool's article. I remember their Road Test of the new Lamborghini which was a Lamborghini farm tractor among other April Fool's road tests.

 

Yeah, funny article. I wish my car had gattling guns

 

Your post reminds me of when i was in the 7th grade and a freind of mine quoted an article in Road and Track that said the new Corvette did 0-60 in .5 seconds. I argued that was impossible; there was no way the new Corvette did 0-60 in .5 seconds. All day we argued back in forth. The next day he brought in the magazine. Sure enought the article said the new Corvette did 0-60 in .5 seconds. "In your face," my freind exclaimed. Until I finished reading the sentence. The new Corvette did 0-60 in .5 seconds faster than the previous model.

 

You were saying?

 

maybe sufall is the one pulling an early april fool's joke on everyone else?

 

mach 5>veyron

 

My point exactly.

 

If you still don't understand, well... you're a fucking retard.

 

^^

So, the crampon tires from Yokohama ARE available?

 

That would be faster than a cat shot of an F-14 Tomcat.

 

The kid was just comma challenged he saw: The new Corvette did 0-60 in .5 seconds, faster than the previous model.

It is what I call an "Eats, shoots and leaves" problem, anyone get the reference?

 

0 to 60 in .6? Kinda like this thing ---> http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=flXu7br_VOg

 

Actually the article read more like this:
"The new Corvette does 0-60 in .5 seconds
faster than the previous model."

He never read the rest of the sentence on the next line.

 

I like that book.

 

God bless you too son. Talking like that, I can tell you're only 18.

 

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Speed Racer's Mach 5 Car "Tested" in Road & Track Mag
posted on 2008-02-28 23:46 EST
US$5-million movie mockup: 1,700 hp, 305 mph, 0-60 in 0.6 seconds

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Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: The current issue of Road & Track magazine (April 2008) features a fictional "April Fools' road test" of the Racer Motors Mach 5 car mockup that was built for the upcoming Warner Brothers Speed Racer movie. The May 9 movie adapts the classic Mach Go Go Go (Speed Racer) car-racing anime series for live-action. According to the article, the US$5-million vehicle has a 1,700-horsepower turbo-charged V-12 engine that is capable of propelling the Mach 5 all the way to 305 miles per hour (491 kilometers per hour). The article also says that the Mach 5, with "tire crampons" engaged, is capable of 6-g turns and quarter-mile (0.40-kilometer) runs in 2.6 seconds.

Road & Track's performance figures, which include a 0.6-second 0–60-mph (0–97-kmph) sprint, were provided in a digital simulation provided by Polyphony Digital, the Sony subsidiary behind the Gran Turismo series of PlayStation car-racing games. The simulation assumed a car with the fictional mechanical capabilities of the Mach 5, including the previously mentioned 1,700-hp V-12, tire crampons and a 2,455-lb (1,114-kg) curb weight.

The full article is available online on Road & Track's website and features photos of the mockup vehicle that is currently being displayed at various auto shows. The complete fictional data sheet is also available.



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Road & Track's performance figures, which include a 0.6-second 0–60-mph (0–97-kmph) sprint, were provided in a digital simulation provided by Polyphony Digital, the Sony subsidiary behind the Gran Turismo series of PlayStation car-racing games. The simulation assumed a car with the fictional mechanical capabilities of the Mach 5, including the previously mentioned 1,700-hp V-12, tire crampons and a 2,455-lb (1,114-kg) curb weight

 

Superman beat all of you, he can fly 0-60 in probably 0.1 secs.

 

Good One!

 

Duh, it's the annual R/T April Fool's issue - spit the hook out before they reel you in.

 

I always looked forward to the April issue. My favorite was a track test - of a monster steam locomotive!

 

0-60 in .6 seconds would probably be a dangerous amount of G-force. Seriously.

 

What do drag cars hit 60 in?

 

Top Fuel cars do 0-100 in about 0.8 seconds. It's about 5.5g of acceleration off the line.

 

... the guy said he pulled 6 g's on the skid pad in the Mach 5... sounds like a NASA test... LOL...now I wanna see a test of the Mammoth Car...

 

Sounds like my cousin who's training to fly F-22s now cause he graduated top of his class at Air Force academy. Kick ass, taht's what I always dreamed of. Don't know if my tall and thin body could withstand the g's though without blacking out

 

And lets not forget that if this car really could run the quarter in < 3 seconds it'd be trapping a wee bit higher than 197mph. Shit, high 7 second cars trap at around 180.

Actually, I punched the numbers into a QM calculator. A high 2 second car would trap at ~500mph.

 

Well, ProStockers are runing the 1/4 mile around 205mph, almost 10mph faster than the mythical car in the story - but is takes them about 6.7 seconds.

Top fuel cars, the quickest of all, have an ET around 4.5 seconds, almost 2 seconds slower than the story, but the go through the lights around 325mph.

The numbers simply don't add up, even for fiction.