Dream Cars

[Bob]

[span style=\'font-size:14pt;line-height:100%\']2007 Ford Shelby GR1 Concept Car [/span]

Ford spent $5 million developing this car, and another $2 million just building this particular one.

This is the first and only one of this type in existence, and was completed in early March 2005 in California.

In January 2004 it was sketched out on paper. In February, a full-size mockup was molded in clay.

Now, a year later, the real thing is on its way to the Detroit Auto Show, delivered by Kitty Hawk. This car wasn’t a mockup or a shell. The sculptor, designer and escort for the car is hoping it will take best of show this year.

This is the 2007 Ford Shelby GR1 concept car. If Ford decides to put it into production, potential buyers can expect to pay around $200,000 U.S. for it.

The entire exterior of the car is polished aluminum, and it has liquid cooled LED headlights...

[Skywalker]

Now I'm not a real fan of american cars... but that Shelby is pretty nice from the side view.  The front and expecially the back are a different story.

[Bob]

It looks like the most expensive and effective dildo ever built.

[Skywalker]

F1 cars have to be the ultimate machines out there… They have be the best at everything. Although there are things that can out accelerate them, nothing can out handle a F1 car, nothing can out brake a F1 car, and nothing can beat an F1 car around a track.


Check out this vid of a race between a F1 car, a Moto GP bike, and a race boat. Click Here


F1 facts:

It costs $40,000 US for an F1 car to do one lap of a track, barring accidents or malfunctions.

When a Formula 1 driver lifts his foot off the brake pedal at 300kph the car will slow at over 1G just due to the aerodynamic drag… a rate equivalent to the maximum breaking of a typical road car.   At full braking the F1 car is over 4G.

Lateral G-Forces in a F1 car can get over 4G, some of the best sports cars achieve just over 1G.

The F1 tire’s operating temperature is 120°C; you could easily boil water on the tires when the car comes in for a pit stop.

The tires of a F1 car have to be filled with 0% moisture nitrogen to avoid bursting from the pressure.

A F1 car has more than enough down force when traveling top speed to drive completely upside down… say on the ceiling of a tunnel.

F1 engines are now naturally aspirated 2.5 L V8’s, which produce around 750 hp and rev up to 20,000 rpm.  The engines only weigh 100kg, and run on gasoline, not alcohol, not nitrous.  No superchargers or turbochargers.

F1 cars can do 0-60 mph in 2.1 seconds; 0-60 mph & back to a stop in 2.9 seconds.

In the early 1980’s before turbochargers were banned F1 engines were making over 1200 hp from 1.5 L inline 4 cylinder engines! Gasoline driven. (Now that’s crazy!!!)

Revving at 20,000 rpm a piston will travel up and down 330 times a second.

Maximum piston acceleration is approximately 9000G!

At 600kg including the driver an F1 car weighs less than half of a Mini Cooper.

The F1 Car’s carbon ceramic brakes operating temperature is 1000°C.

[Skywalker]

Another cool F1 fact that I just found.

F1 cars produce so much down force that on street courses the manhole covers have to be welded down to prevent them from being sucked up and flung by the cars as they pass.

That's nuts!

[RKSS]

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?f...C4697F9A297&p=0


here is one for you

[Skywalker]

I found my new dream car, the Caparo T1.  It has a 480hp high reving V8 engine but since the car only weighs 470kg (1036lbs), It has nearly 1000hp/ton!  That's the best power to weight ratio of any road car I have ever heard of.  It accelerates from 0-100 in around 2.5 seconds, has 3g's of lateral grip, and pulls 3g's under braking decceleration.  I've never heard of even the best road car pulling anything more than 1.5 lateral g's.

I want one!!!