gjm 3258 Report post Posted October 18, 2017 400km/h is very fast. Much faster than the majority of people will ever experience in a land vehicle, and that it now features as a 'contest' between car manufacturers is astonishing. On August 6th, a very carefully prepared Bugatti Chiron performed an astonishing - incredible? - feat by accelerating from 0-400km/h, and back to a standstill, in around 42 seconds. Two parts of this sentence are important - the 'carefully prepared' part, and the 'around 42 seconds' - normally I'd be a lot more precise. However, that's now irrelevant. On October 1st, a hastily cobbled together attempt on the same feat was carried out by Koenigsegg using a customers car. Last minute location arrangements using a bumpy, unprepared and slippery concrete military runway which was strictly too short for the purpose, no other car being available so "we took a customer car which had been prepared for delivery," and a factory driver who wasn't confirmed as available until the day of the drive. Which took over 5 seconds less than the Chiron. Actually, 0-403-0 in 37.28 seconds. The 0-400-0 took just 36.44 seconds. The final run included wheelspin when changing into 3rd gear, logging show 183km/h at the time. The 0-400 acceleration is on a par with the world's fastest production motorbike which, derestricted, also takes 26 seconds to reach 400km/h. It does cost a little less, of course. Full details of the Koenigsegg run are here. But for those who thought tl;dr and couldn't be bothered with the link, here's a video. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gjm 3258 Report post Posted October 19, 2017 23 minutes ago, 3pedals said: Nice - maybe I can trade the Saab in on one ? I was trying to think of a downside. There's not a huge amount of luggage room, but CvK would almost certainly do ski-racks so you could carry stuff outside, and I'm sure a towbar could be sorted if you really wanted one... Go for it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kiwi535 538 Report post Posted October 19, 2017 I assume the motorbike is Kawasaki H2R? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gjm 3258 Report post Posted October 19, 2017 1 hour ago, kiwi535 said: I assume the motorbike is Kawasaki H2R? Yes. Top speed quotes vary for the H2R, but the upper end is 400km/h. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Young Thrash Driver 1020 Report post Posted October 19, 2017 Nice, looks like the video editing took longer than actually planning and pulling the stunt off 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zero 1162 Report post Posted October 20, 2017 Imagine if they used the Regera - thats even faster. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gjm 3258 Report post Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) ... And - they've just driven at 277.9mph on a (closed) public road - a 11 mile stretch of interstate in the US was closed for the run(s). That's an average speed - highest officially recorded speed was 284.7mph. That followed an earlier unofficial 291mph... On a public road. 300mph is so close, yet still so far away. Edited November 5, 2017 by gjm 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
