I'm sticking with proven technology.
Posted on 08/09/2021 4:36:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Shocking, as in we're shocked a car company would release footage this bad. But UAE hypercar company Devel has a legit 5,000-horsepower, 12.8 liter V16 engine, multiple prototypes, and now a super-lame test video of this spectacularly audacious machine.
Fifteen years later, the company is still trying to get the thing built. Perhaps that shouldn't be surprising; take a look at the promises here. The track-only top model promises more than 5,000 horsepower, with a street version not too far behind at around 3,000 ponies. This from a custom-built 12.3-liter V16 engine running four massive 81mm turbochargers. There's apparently a 2,000 horsepower V8 as well, if you're a complete pussy.
Why would you need that kind of power? Well, you wouldn't. But somebody chasing a production car land speed record might ... For starters, that ludicrous motor is legit; it's been developed and built by Michigan-based custom builder Steve Morris Engines. SME even tested the thing on its own in-house engine dyno, which the company had to design and build in-house, because who the hell else needs a dyno with numbers that big on it? It's also not clear exactly what's being tested, or that there's anything particularly rigorous about the testing going on here. The car blats around taking the odd hairy-looking corner or two, but this isn't a race track; it's the grounds of Voghera Airport, a little way south of Milan in Italy.
...Will it hit 350 mph? Well look, sometimes it rains frogs, so hey, maybe. Frankly if it breaks 300, it'll be one of the great engineering and brass-balled driving feats of the modern age, and worth every oily cent its creators have thrown at it. We look on, spellbound, at this oddball operation and its fantastically berserk creation. Enjoy the test video below.
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This car... people have got to learn sharia banking before taking about this car.
It’s a scam. But it’s necessary in sharia finances for this company. They never intend on selling it, they intend on building it to satisfy lofty sharia loans.
It, the company and Supercar Blondie are all hucksters
Extremely difficult to put that much horsepower to the ground.
could come in handy to outrun biden’s kung flu doorknockers...
Yeah. I am thinking 5000 HP is overkill. And not just for American roads. But any road on planet Earth.
I will wait until May and Clarkson test this before I put in my order.
I'm sticking with proven technology.
Met a gent years ago, who had a tractor pull 'tractor' with dual V8s, two turbochargers per engine (operating in different RPM ranges), all connected to the drive wheels through an automatic transmission. He said he could (and did) win with it, as long as the tranny held together...
;^)
The only roads you can drive such a car on, without tearing apart the car, are the roads that were built as alternative landing pads of the Space Shuttle.
The fast cars on the streets in the near future will be electric, and as they get faster the constraint on acceleration will be purely traction.
In the far future it's likey the high-speed roadways and vehicle tires will be made of basically the same rubberized material (the difference in the roadways being porosity, for drainage), and traction will be far superior to today's vulcanized rubber on concrete or asphalt. In the meantime as we build electric cars which can apply thousands of foot pounds of torque to the wheels individually on behalf of drivers of average American quality, everyday driving will be more, you might say, adventurous than ever, for all of us.
Union Pacific can help with that
With 5k horsepower...it’s gonna have to run a whole lot faster than I saw in the video before I’ll but it.
“There’s apparently a 2,000 horsepower V8 as well, if you’re a complete pussy.”
ROFL!
B model Mack with a Quadruplex.....Pull a house down
Do you have a link to explain what you mean about the shairia banking?
Misters Clarkson, May, and Hammond, please pick up the white courtesy phone.....
Talk about a post that will make you sit there and think. Very interesting, thank you.
The only roads you can drive such a car on, without tearing apart the car, are the roads that were built as alternative landing pads of the Space Shuttle.
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