Mrs.Cicero Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 https://www.foxnews.com/auto/american-ssc-tuatara-supercar-316-mph?fbclid=IwAR0TAqMjAQWjEk-iqWrMOxHjQsCe6MeKOwIdLiGAOUkNB5U6YhIjbAIHq-Q 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mrs.Cicero said: https://www.foxnews.com/auto/american-ssc-tuatara-supercar-316-mph?fbclid=IwAR0TAqMjAQWjEk-iqWrMOxHjQsCe6MeKOwIdLiGAOUkNB5U6YhIjbAIHq-Q At my age, I'd rather have the MONEY it cost!!! 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Agreed, I just don't need anything that goes over 90, anymore. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 23 minutes ago, Mrs.Cicero said: https://www.foxnews.com/auto/american-ssc-tuatara-supercar-316-mph?fbclid=IwAR0TAqMjAQWjEk-iqWrMOxHjQsCe6MeKOwIdLiGAOUkNB5U6YhIjbAIHq-Q No way! Long ago I realized that I don't have the temperament to be trusted with that high of performance. I kept buying more and more muscle, and driving them harder and harder, until one day in the middle of rush hour traffic I was doing a 4 wheel drift up an exit ramp with the tires smoking and the exhaust smoking (I was doing around 100 mph and almost missed my exit, so I down shifted dropped off the throttle and cut off traffic to make the ramp) I lost a quart of oil doing that. Anyway as I was coming up the ramp almost sideways, I could see the bug eyes of the car driver I was merging with and the though hit me that, "I could get killed this way". I finally had to downsize my vehicles so that if I drove them hard, they were less of a threat to everyone else. that was my epiphany. I can't be trusted with really high performance, I would use it! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 These days I can get all the driving excitement I want at 50+/- mph on my Vespa on rough winding country roads. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Nah, I see to many news articles about people wrecking these kind of cars within 30 minutes after driving them off the lot. I have no desire to be on the news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 1 hour ago, janice6 said: No way! Long ago I realized that I don't have the temperament to be trusted with that high of performance. Me too. I'd be long gone dead. Great story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 I think it would be fun to drive it once, but I don't want to own it. That $$ would buy a whole lotta guns and ammo... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheygriz Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I'd rather have my little Honda CR-V.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I was hoping for a baked goods offer. tom. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueiron Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I'd rather have a WW-2 era MB Jeep with a M-1919A4 machinegun on a pedestal mount and a few thousand rounds of tracer ammo. In rural traffic, it would take the Jeep every time, but in city traffic and a passenger aboard, I could get across town faster that that hyper-car could. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenoF250 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I doubt I could get in and out of it. I got to drive a Tesla roadster once and I barely fit. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 One could buy a really nice chunk of land in a place with no neighbors for the cost of that car. I know which one I'd get better use out of. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueiron Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Turns out it was a BS claim. https://www.thedrive.com/news/37317/ssc-admits-tuataras-331-mph-top-speed-video-was-incorrect-as-chaos-engulfs-world-record-run 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Bonneville Speed Week 7 mile course both ways CTA timers and judges End controversy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyzz Kydd Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I’m not downgrading from my current ride to that jalopy. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 When my 2008 Saturn craps out I don't have the money or credit rating to replace it. A $1.9 million car that goes several times the top speed of the aircraft I'm licensed for? As machines go it's interesting, but like elephants, they're fun to look at but I wouldn't want to own one. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 331 MPH on Cup 2 Tires rated at an Official Round-About +186 MPH on a Public Road would be ballsy. Cup 2 tires are notorious for easy punctures, and Public Roads are notorious for being imperfect. even 280 MPH would be pretty terrifying. Nelson Racing Engines has always been the best Bang for Buck for Crate Engines, he Built a Mirror TT 406 ci SBC that put out a reliable 1200+HP pump Gas Daily Driver Engine. for somewhere around $35k or 1400 HP SBC for about the same money. at this point for me the only 330 MPH i`m doing is at 35,000 feet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 What's it like to want? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Huaco Kid said: What's it like to want? Ask any woman in a clothing store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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