{"id":11203,"date":"2010-01-13T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11203"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:30:53","slug":"the-chimaera-of-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/the-chimaera-of-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chimaera of Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The perfect illustration (below) of the glorious absurdity of the very, very fast car. The Bugatti Veyron will do 253 miles per hour. But it can\u2019t do 253 miles in an hour, because at that speed its fuel consumption is so voracious that it will drain its tank after just fifty miles. You\u2019ll have covered the distance from London to Brighton in twelve minutes, but stopping for petrol five times for every hour\u2019s driving might get to be a drag.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11215\" title=\"Aero\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero.jpg\" width=\"606\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero.jpg 606w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero-278x117.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero-526x223.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Aero-572x242.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Veyron is not alone, of course. The 200mph car is probably a complete chimaera; to our knowledge, nobody has ever tried to drive a production car at 200 miles per hour, for an hour. Almost all the cars that make the claim would need to be towing an oil tanker to do it, and that would knock their speed a little.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11367\" title=\"bugatti-veyron-fgb\" alt=\"Bugatti Veyron FGB\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb.jpg\" width=\"1066\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-1024x515.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-624x314.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-278x140.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-526x264.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-881x444.jpg 881w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bugatti-veyron-fgb-572x288.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1066px) 100vw, 1066px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVeyron: a brilliant absurdity<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s all academic anyway. The combination of circumstances that allow you to do a really big speed in a road car are so rare as to make the proportion of very fast cars that have actually been driven at very fast speeds incalculably small. Forget the law: you\u2019re almost certainly going to have to break it. The real problem is distance. Plainly, as a car\u2019s speed increases, its rate of acceleration declines; you might get from zero to sixty in three-and-a-bit seconds, but getting from 190mph to the double-ton might take a minute as your car reaches the very limit of its abilities. Finding a road sufficiently long and straight and clear is almost impossible, and finding the nerve is even harder.<\/p>\n<p>So why are we so hung up on top speed? Once, there was a genuine engineering benefit; the advances that made cars go faster, such as aerodynamics and more efficient engines, and stay stable and stop again, such as better brakes and suspension, filtered down to ordinary cars. That\u2019s no longer the case; we\u2019ve learnt pretty much all we\u2019re going to learn, and the extra few miles per hour that now make a car the fastest in the world are eked out with extreme engine tuning and otherwise utterly impractical aero and suspension settings.<\/p>\n<p>The Veyron did bring some benefits. Ferdinand Piech, the Sauron-like mastermind behind the Volkswagen group used the project as a trial-by-fire for aspiring engineers; if they could hit the almost impossible targets he set for the car \u2013 400km\/h, 1001 horsepower, one million euros \u2013 their careers were assured, and they\u2019re now working on the Polos and Golfs the rest of us drive. But more often, being cajoled into doing a huge speed makes a car worse in normal driving. Off the record, Bentley engineers admit that making the Continental GT do 200mph left it hopelessly overspecified and overweight at a crushing 2.4 tonnes.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11209\" title=\"Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Bentley_Continental_GT-S_193-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Over Specced and superfast: The Bentley Continental GT Speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But even if you don\u2019t actually want it, and never get the chance to use it, a big top speed appeals to anyone who ever played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyswereyours.co.uk\/ourshop\/cat_104272-TOP-TRUMPSACE-TRUMPSCARD-GAMES.html\">Top Trumps<\/a> as a kid. It sells cars, and it sometimes prompts even the most revered of carmakers to massage the figures a little. A car\u2019s top speed can be calculated with a fairly simple equation, making it easy to disprove some of the more ludicrous claims. You only need a car\u2019s power, frontal area, drag coefficient and rolling resistance to work out how fast it will go with the right conditions and gearing.<\/p>\n<p>But the really striking thing is the relationship between speed and power. To make a car go faster, the extra power required is proportional to the cube of the extra speed. Put simply, to make a 180mph car do 200mph \u2013 a speed increase of 11 per cent \u2013 you need 37 per cent more power. It\u2019s difficult, expensive, and much easier to fib.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11225\" title=\"3.8 E-Type Roadster\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/61_roadster-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCould this car really breach a ton-fifty?<\/p>\n<p>The pre-production Jaguar E-Type that became the first road car to hit 150mph in 1961 almost certainly had a little help from the competition department; subsequent tests couldn\u2019t replicate it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/ferrari-f40\/\">Ferrari F40<\/a> was the first credible production car to claim a top speed over 200mph, boasting of 201.3mph at its launch in 1987, but to our knowledge this has never been independently verified. Maximum respect to Porsche for eschewing Italian willy-waving and NOT claiming 200mph for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/evolution-of-the-porsche-911\/\">959,<\/a> launched at the same time as the F40. It would have been a killer marketing line, but Porsche knew it wasn\u2019t true. It claimed 197mph instead, and that\u2019s exactly what the 959 did in an independent test.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month that Ferrari made its 200mph claim for the F40, Phil Hill and Paul Frere timed the Ruf CTR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/top-ten-german-cars-of-all-time\/\">\u2018Yellowbird\u2019<\/a> at 211mph for US magazine Road and Track, and it did 213mph the following year at Nardo. The CTR \u2013 Ruf\u2019s reworking of the Porsche 911 Turbo \u2013 was made in small numbers compared to the 1315 F40s built but it still qualifies as a production car, Ruf having been granted manufacturer status by the German government six years previously. This tiny, bespoke carmaker beat the best in the world to make the first production car to prove it could do 200mph.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari was caught out again with the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=847937966511260702#\">F50<\/a>: it claimed 202mph, but the lease under which all 349 were sold specifically forbade independent speed tests; when a US mag finally managed to test one it did \u2018only\u2019 194mph. Ferrari learnt its lesson; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferrari.com\/English\/about_ferrari\/History\/Pages\/Enzo_Ferrari.aspx\">Enzo<\/a> will do all of its claimed 218mph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11379\" title=\"Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200\" alt=\"The Ferrari Enzo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-278x208.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-526x394.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-592x444.jpg 592w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ferrari-Enzo-Hood-Doors-Open-1600x1200-572x429.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Enzo Ferrari lived up to its noble moniker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/tag\/xj220\/\">The Jaguar XJ220<\/a> and McLaren F1 posted genuine big numbers, but needed a little help. In \u201992 the Jag had to have its catalysts removed to produce the extra 50bhp Martin Brundle needed to lift it from 210 to 217mph at the Nardo test track in Italy, or just over 220mph once the scrub effect of the high-speed bowl has been allowed for. Cue mass exhalation in Coventry; the car (just) lived up to its name. The McLaren F1 in which Andy Wallace set the long-standing 240.1mph record in 1998 needed its rev limiter removed to do it, though rumours still abound that the engine was \u2018special\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>All these cars are extraordinary, covetable, engineering marvels. But perhaps our obsession with top speed is passing. There may never be another car like the Veyron: global recession, emissions regulations, social opprobrium and dwindling oil supplies mean we\u2019ll have to get our kicks elsewhere, and the new technologies that replace the internal combustion engine might simply be incapable of propelling a car that fast. But do you really care that the all-electric Tesla Roadster will do \u2018only\u2019 125mph, when you\u2019ll seldom get close to that in normal driving, and its acceleration to 100mph is so \u2013 well \u2013 electrifying, and produced with zero emissions or guilt?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vGBI_kGwqAk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vGBI_kGwqAk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Oliver examines the end-game of automotive velocity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,6],"tags":[82,2003],"class_list":["post-11203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-features","tag-ferrari","tag-jaguar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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