Sentences with phrase «fastest road car of»

Bugatti became the manufacturer of the fastest road car of the world when it launched the Veyron Super Sports.

[singlepic id = 11330 w = 540 h = 375 float = center] Bugatti became the manufacturer of the fastest road car of the world when it launched the Veyron Super Sports.

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The shift away from pure fossil - fuel engines has been so fast that 2017 sales of cars using some form of electric battery power topped out at 52 percent, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV).

Hamlin had consistently one of the fastest cars all afternoon, but routinely dropped several positions on pit road.

He is the sort who when crossing a busy road, will see the fast car speeding along but not work out he is in danger if stepping out in front of it.

I like motorcycles, fast cars, outdoors, curvy mountain roads, all types of racing, boating on the St. Johns River, reading good books, dogs, fishing, riding bikes at the beach, new adventures and tan lines or lack of.

There's shades of «Fast and the Furious» and «Mad Max: Fury Road» as cars flip, tumble down mountains, and even leap across rooftops, but all with the casualty buffer of a kids movie.

To celebrate it's fast road cars BMW will create its own «M Avenue», featuring some of the best M cars of the past 40 or so years.

The so - called «22B» was a tour - de-force of go - fast rally components, and is likely as close to a road - going rally car as there ever has been.

This is the same, the car in my opinion is the pinnacle of aerodinamic knowledge, and it's like that because it doesn't have any other reasson to exist besides it's main reasson, which is to be the fastest road car on a track.

I don't track my cars but in terms of driving from A to B and having a bit of fun on the B roads, the Nismo RS is fun and fast.

Some day, the Nürburgring may become just another winding stretch of road, and cars like the Nissan GT - R may become relics of an innocent time when manufacturers genuinely cared about going fast.

The Lotus - tuned suspension, combined with a 45/55 percent weight distribution and sticky nineteen - inch Michelin Pilot Sport tires, makes the Aileron an easy, almost relaxing car to drive fast, although the lack of any stability or traction control tends to dampen one's temptation to explore its absolute limits on public roads.

The thought of such abilities, exploitable ones at that, crammed into a road car is difficult to comprehend - at the time of the McLaren F1, people thought no supercar would ever get faster, but it's hard to imagine any road car in the future being able to out - lap the new Red Bull road - going racecar.

It feels darty and nervous, the steering seems ludicrously fast and so light that you can't get any feel for the grip available, and the car just can't cope with the vicious lumps of this moorland road.

«The car should be fast, but Le Mans is a cruel place, and Ford wants us to rock the first time we're there,» says Larry Holt, vice president of engineering at Multimatic, which developed the race car and will build the road cars.

Porsche's latest triumph on the «Ring has come courtesy of the 991.2 911 GT2 RS, officially the fastest Porsche 911 ever and now record holder of the fastest lap in a production road - legal car.

Despite a drop of nearly 1000 pounds compared to the 3,803 - pound road version, the NSX GT3 doesn't feel insanely fast in a straight line, but I quickly gather that the race car has serious pace.

In The Missing Link, Delwyn Mallett gets behind the wheel of the prewar car which bridges the gap between the humble Volkswagen Beetle and a long line of sporting Porsches / Auto - biography: George Cohen — Matthew Bell visits the retired psychiatrist who now devotes his time to driving old cars and building and riding motorcycles, especially single - cylinder Nortons / Douglas Blain takes to the road in a 1946 Talbot - Lago T26 Record, in its day probably the world's fastest saloon and asks, is it The last great Vintage car?

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For a brief couple of months the M760 Li was BMW's fastest accelerating road car ever, right up until the new F90 M5 came along and shaved a 0.3 sec off its 3.7 sec 0 - 62mph time.

The announcement indicates that GM intends to move fast in getting the technology on the road and in the hands of mainstream consumers, including customers of its nascent Maven car - sharing program.

However, although the car feels faster, angrier and has that sense of invincibility that has come to characterise the GT3, the chassis» more track - focused nature makes it much more physically demanding to drive quickly on the road.

Enjoying a sports car on rural roads isn't about setting the absolute fastest lap time, finding the last fraction of a g of grip, or threshold braking.

The V - 8 engine itself weighs about 55 pounds less than the twelve - cylinder engine, so there's less weight hanging off the front axle of the car, which makes any of the Continental GT V8 models better tools for diving into corners and making time on fast, challenging roads like Ortega Highway.

In part one (below) Harry gives us a walk around all the details on a Pagani Zonda only an owner would discover and then, in part two (click here), he heads out onto the road and gives us a glimpse of what it's like to drive one of the world's fastest cars.

Depending on your definition of perfection, the Audi comes close to being one of the easiest cars to drive fast, irrespective of road and surface conditions.

And it's just as well we're not eating up the ground too fast; given the number of drowsy sheep on the road, I get the feeling we're the first cars on the mountain road to Aberystwyth this morning.

That should ensure peak output will fall well below the road car's 552bhp and 501 lb ft of torque, but of course, the lighter, downforce - producing and slick - wearing racer will be significantly faster on track.

As a road car, it will attempt to set the fastest time of the weekend with 1999 Indy 500 winner and McLaren test driver Kenny Bräck at the wheel.

As such, it no longer needed to produce 200 GTOs for homologation, but the demand was so great for what, upon its launch in 1984, would be the fastest production car in the world that Ferrari went ahead and built the road cars anyway — 272 of them.

The # 132,020 Audi has the more exciting engine — its normally - aspirated V10 is one of the most thrilling road car engines currently being built — while the # 137,553 Porsche feels even faster than the GT C and would be easier to use day - to - day.

Comfortably as the GT - R sits on pole in any grid of Nissan's fastest cars from the past ten years, it isn't the fastest Nissan road car ever.

Wouldn't it be great,» said associate editor Tomalin, «if for the 100th issue we could get the fastest group of road cars we could possibly muster, together, on the same day, and see which is quickest around the West Circuit.»

With the cornering shots in the bag (on a closed piece of road but a rather unnervingly fast corner) we all swap cars again and head towards our last USAF haunt — RAF Upwood.

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The car that could cover the distance between two points on road or track, through a combination of near paralysing acceleration, cornering and braking, faster than any other.

Yes the TTRS is fast, it has lots of grip, can keep speed up in corners as a result, can fire you down the road etc etc but it doesn't make it the best car.

The hypercar is designed and built by Hennessey with the goal of being the fastest road car on earth.

Maybe it's the gear ratios, but the RS 3 feels like it lacks the torque of the TT on the road, and its firm suspension also bounces the car around more on mid-corner bumps — even in Comfort mode — making you less confident to drive fast.

There's Rod, holder of the record at Pikes Peak for so many years that they started calling the place Millen's Mountain; there's Steve Millen, rally driver, road racer and performance parts maker at Stillen; there's Rhys, son of Rod, himself a rally driver, successful Pikes Peak racer and driver of who - knows - how - many stunts in all those «Fast and / or Furious» movies; and now there is Ryan, a lad so polite you almost want to hire him on the spot to do public relations work at Disneyland, maybe for a souped - up version of Autopia where the cars leave the track and drift wildly through the Magic Kingdom.

Bentley is known for opulent luxury, but with the brand returning to the race track this year, some of that go - fast attitude is set to transfer into its road cars.

Packing the same upgraded engine used by the Veyron Super Sport (the world's fastest road car), this final incarnation of the modern - day Bugatti delivers an outrageous 1,183 hp and is said to reach 255 mph flat out in seventh gear.

Alright, let me be honest and tell you a few things that I dislike about this car: - Gas Mileage (Hyundai claims it gives you 25 mpg in the city, which is not true, I get not more than 23 mpg in the city for sure)- Traction Control (The traction can not handle the acceleration and the wheels would start spinning, even on the dry roads, not sure what to blame)- USB port - The built in USB port does not support android, at least not in my case, therefore I have to rely on Bluetooth or AUX)- Dull Alloy Wheels - The dullness of alloy wheels for the SE trim does not compliment the car over all, but eh, I can't complain much as it is a BASE model Now, the things I absolutely love about this car: - Great Turn Radius - Beautiful LED lights (even with base model)- Highway mileage (35 mpg even driving at 75 miles an hour, you might get better than 37 mpg if you drive at 55 miles an hour)- Spacious trunk - Great leg room for rear seats - Just enough power to accelerate quickly and merge on to the highways / freeways - Amazing Brakes - Sports, ECO and Normal Mode (For those who do not know, once switched to SPORTS mode, the car's steering becomes stiff as well as the engine along with the help of transmission helps you accelerate the car faster, you actually feel like driving a sports car.

On 23 January 2011, the Atom 500 set the lap record around the Top Gear test track, with a time of 1:15.1, making it the fastest road - legal car to go around the track [14]-- a record that stood for just over two years, until the Pagani Huayra completed a lap in 1:13.8 on 27 January 2013.

Like the GT3, it offers an exceptional amount of grip and is up there with the quickest road cars in the world from A to B. Despite that, it doesn't feel intimidating at all — in fact, it encourages you to drive quickly with fast and communicative steering and a glorious soundtrack.

In the end, the lure of better straight - line performance (the new car is 1sec faster to 100km / h), coupled with added security at speed on road and track was compelling.

Things get even more interesting in the second half of this year when Skoda launches its fastest road car ever — the Octavia RS 245 which will share its 245hp (180kW) turbocharged 2.0 - litre engine with the Volkswagen Golf GTI Performance.

A 0 - 62mph time of just 2.8 seconds is indicative of a car that's too fast to fully exploit legally or safely on a public road.

The 4C is the second fastest 4 - cylinder road legal car around the «ring, only beaten by the Caterham R500 Superlight with a time of 7:55.