good read: anatomy of a supercar

[posol]

R&T ROADandTRACK.com -- Road Tests, Comparison Tests - Technical Analysis: Anatomy of a Supercar (1/2006)

its about the buggati mostly, as a reference point, but talks about how the building and designing process to building supercars.

that wasn't very good ensligh, but i can't think of a better way to say that. lol

 

[Celerity]

On Top Gear, the guy mentioned that he knew the engineer at Bugatti who made the transmission, and he said "He had aged 10 years in a few months, he said that making a transmission to handle this power is easy - but making one that can handle this power for 100,000 miles or more has been the greatest challenge of his life"

 

[klyph]

I ate a huge meal of assorted leftovers at like 2 in the morning last night. The dump i took this morning was the greatest challenge of my life.

 

[Celerity]

... says the man dropping a modern D series into a 78 CVCC...

 

[klyph]

^_^ mixed emotions about that.

 

[reikoshea]

yeah...that swap is hard. but something tells me the veyron was more difficult.