0-100-0 in 8.8 secs, yeah, it's that fast...
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0-100-0 in 8.8 secs, yeah, it's that fast...
Maxximus G-force Ultima GTR Autoblog link
This thing is just wicked..
How do you build the world's quickest car? Well, first you take one of the quickest cars already on the road, then you add more power and charge millions for each example.
In this case, chauffer Marlon Kirby and financier David McMahan took the Ultima GTR – which already claims the fastest quarter-mile, 0-100-0, Nürburgring (almost) and Top Gear (unofficial) track times – and dropped in an all-aluminum 7.0-liter Chevy small-block V8 with twin turbochargers to bring the power rating up to 1600 horses, calling the resultant monster the Maxximus G-Force. All those ponies drive through a three-speed sequential gearbox, while six-piston AP Racing calipers gripping 14.2-inch discs handle the stopping power.
Housed in a 2700-pound frame, that's apparently enough to get the G-Force up to 60 miles-per-hour in 2.1 seconds, to 100 mph in 4.5 seconds and run the 0-100-0 sprint in 8.8 seconds. Nine minutes of fuel is all it can carry at those rates, but considering that McMahan and Kirby are charging $3 million a pop, we doubt a big bill at the gas pump would be an owner's biggest concern.
This thing is just wicked..
How do you build the world's quickest car? Well, first you take one of the quickest cars already on the road, then you add more power and charge millions for each example.
In this case, chauffer Marlon Kirby and financier David McMahan took the Ultima GTR – which already claims the fastest quarter-mile, 0-100-0, Nürburgring (almost) and Top Gear (unofficial) track times – and dropped in an all-aluminum 7.0-liter Chevy small-block V8 with twin turbochargers to bring the power rating up to 1600 horses, calling the resultant monster the Maxximus G-Force. All those ponies drive through a three-speed sequential gearbox, while six-piston AP Racing calipers gripping 14.2-inch discs handle the stopping power.
Housed in a 2700-pound frame, that's apparently enough to get the G-Force up to 60 miles-per-hour in 2.1 seconds, to 100 mph in 4.5 seconds and run the 0-100-0 sprint in 8.8 seconds. Nine minutes of fuel is all it can carry at those rates, but considering that McMahan and Kirby are charging $3 million a pop, we doubt a big bill at the gas pump would be an owner's biggest concern.
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nobody is going to spend 3 million for a kit car with no badge / decals. Might as well just get a boxter and debadge it so people can't tell what model it is. Or other things equally as dumb as a fake honda ferari
TOo much fakeness out there, so many liars, so little time, where to start?
TOo much fakeness out there, so many liars, so little time, where to start?
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3 million wtf?
Couldn't you just buy an Ultima all the same parts for a fraction of that? I mean even with extensive labor, fabrication, and tuning costs I don't see how it could come to anywhere near that.
Couldn't you just buy an Ultima all the same parts for a fraction of that? I mean even with extensive labor, fabrication, and tuning costs I don't see how it could come to anywhere near that.
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ducati 1198 has a lot more affordable price tag as well as does a 0-100 mph in only 10.6 sec. think for the $, ill take the 1.8sec difference.
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