View Poll Results: Which one do you want ?
Bugatti Veyron
0
0%
Porsche 918
2
25.00%
2014 Corvette + have lots cash 4 Fun
5
62.50%
None of them (I'll keep my $'s)
1
12.50%
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>Which is faster ? Which one do U want ?
#1
04-05-2014, 05:31 AM
>Which is faster ? Which one do U want ?
Which is faster: The Bugatti Veyron or Porsche 918 Spyder ?
They're closer than you might imagine.
Member's > Which one do you like ? Want ?
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"Dreams are still 'free"
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"Dreams are still 'free"
By Larry Webster April 3, 2014 / Photos by Marc Urbano
Who doesn’t hate the Veyron? It’s taken the fun out of every barstool debate and it stands as a testament to one brilliant man’s outsized ego (that would be Ferdinand Piech).
But you can’t argue with what the Bugatti and 1200 hp can do. Yet we’re dying for something to put it in its place.
That car has arrived: the new Porsche 918 Spyder.
We just tested one on a crummy drag strip north of Austin, Texas. The high-performance hybrid combines two electric motors and a V8 that’s tuned like a race motor to put 887 hp to the ground. That’s a fair bit less than the Veyron’s power, but the 918 weighs 3820 lbs, roughly 700 lbs less than the 4500-lb Bugatti.
Here are the results from both cars.
But you can’t argue with what the Bugatti and 1200 hp can do. Yet we’re dying for something to put it in its place.
That car has arrived: the new Porsche 918 Spyder.
We just tested one on a crummy drag strip north of Austin, Texas. The high-performance hybrid combines two electric motors and a V8 that’s tuned like a race motor to put 887 hp to the ground. That’s a fair bit less than the Veyron’s power, but the 918 weighs 3820 lbs, roughly 700 lbs less than the 4500-lb Bugatti.
Here are the results from both cars.
Bugatti Veyron
0-60 mph (sec)2.52.
50-100 mph 4.95.1
1/4 mile
9.9 sec @ 145.8 mph
SSPorsche 918
10.0 sec @ 143.7
mph5-60 mphNA2.8 sec
Skidpad (g)0.991.07
0-60 mph (sec)2.52.
50-100 mph 4.95.1
1/4 mile
9.9 sec @ 145.8 mph
SSPorsche 918
10.0 sec @ 143.7
mph5-60 mphNA2.8 sec
Skidpad (g)0.991.07
Close isn’t it? Close enough that on the same track on the same day, we’d have a race on our hands
Source Link below
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-revi...che-918-spyder
Source Link below
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-revi...che-918-spyder
Last edited by BeachBumMike; 04-05-2014 at 05:40 AM.
#2
04-05-2014, 05:38 AM
===== bonus 'vid = = = = =
Buckle `up
EnJoy
Great Test > Which one would you like ? What Color ? LOL
Last edited by BeachBumMike; 04-05-2014 at 06:32 AM.
#3
04-05-2014, 06:49 AM
>>>Caddy 4 'me<<<
I'll take the Caddy over the Lexus 4>$ure Which one do you like/want best ? (*Great Vid above)^================================================== ====
2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport Twin-Turbo V-6
Veni, Vidi, Vici: The new CTS Vsport puts Cadillac back in the $60K chariot race.
- SEPTEMBER 2013
- BY AARON ROBINSON
- PHOTOGRAPHY BY A.J. MUELLER
From the November 2013 Issue of Car and DriverTESTED
The lone domestic premium brand with a pulse is growing ever stronger and more confident as it slowly rises from its 30-year snooze. The second-generation Cadillac CTS-V and the new ATS were the first payments on debts from promises long made and routinely broken. Now we’ve driven the reborn CTS and believe the General is indeed serious about returning Cadillac to the pointy end of the luxury market.
How do we know? Well, the 420-hp twin-turbo CTS Vsport we drove on GM’s own handling track and that streaked to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds simply felt fantastic, with a muscular engine integrated into a neutral chassis that’s been pulled as tight as piano wire. And, driving impressions and test figures aside, the CTS makes strides in cracking one of GM’s hardest nuts, the company’s persistent weight problem.
The CTS’s chief engineer, Dave Leone, tells us that the entire project was developed not with pounds or kilograms as the unit of measurement, but grams. A gram equals 0.0022 pound. Anyone presenting an idea to cut weight had to speak in grams, he says. “That’s how granular we had to be to beat the boys in Bavaria.” The CTS Vsport we tested sans the optional sunroof weighed 1,798,947 grams with a slight rear bias. That’s not exactly a gossamer goose, but it is substantially lighter than this particular model’s stated bogey, the BMW 550i. We tested that one in 2010, and it weighed 2,003,517 grams, or 4417 pounds, or 451 pounds more than our CTS Vsport test car. That’s roughly the gap between New York and Cleveland in an industry currently squeezing its designs for every possible pennyweight.
Spend a few minutes with Leone and you sense that he knows where each gram was filched from the CTS. The first production GM vehicle with aluminum doors also has an aluminum front subframe, bumper beams, shock towers, hood, and front-suspension arms. Feather-light magnesium engine mounts that have the heft of cardboard origami in your hands save a whopping 680 grams (1.5 pounds) over the previous aluminum ones.
Ditching steel for aluminum, or magnesium, is an obvious but expensive solution. Other CTS nuances are less obvious. The B-pillar, previously assembled from eight separate steel stampings, now begins with a single “tailor-rolled” steel blank, meaning that the steel coil is manufactured with varying gauges so it’s thick where it needs to be and thin where it doesn’t. That saved 1814 grams. Stamping flanges are trimmed in a saw-toothed pattern to remove an unneeded 3000 grams or so of material between the spot-welds.
Ditching steel for aluminum, or magnesium, is an obvious but expensive solution. Other CTS nuances are less obvious. The B-pillar, previously assembled from eight separate steel stampings, now begins with a single “tailor-rolled” steel blank, meaning that the steel coil is manufactured with varying gauges so it’s thick where it needs to be and thin where it doesn’t. That saved 1814 grams. Stamping flanges are trimmed in a saw-toothed pattern to remove an unneeded 3000 grams or so of material between the spot-welds.
When you work in grams, ordering a milkshake without a straw would produce a significant savings. But clearly this isn’t the old GM, the company that wouldn’t trade you a rusty nail for a gram or a dram if it didn’t absolutely have to. Our test numbers further affirm that things have changed behind the wreath-and-crest. The panic-stop distance of 149 feet and the 0.97-g skidpad trace are both on par with several Porsches we can name, and they speak to the way in which a well-tuned chassis with suppressed pitch and roll exploits its very expensive Pirelli P Zero run-flat tires. They are sized for modest (and light) 18-inch wheels, the biggest CTS wheel available from the factory.
On GM’s suicidal handling loop, a woolly ride stitched together from replicas of some of racing’s worst widow-makers, the CTS Vsport glissades comfortably with slashing turn-in, gummy grip, and the scales narrowly balanced between understeer and rear-end looseness. Turn off the stability control and the sedan will go sideways with a flick once you’ve waded into the deep boost, but in such an easy and predictable way as to be thrilling fun. If you’re driving more judiciously for lap times, you can definitely feel the electronically controlled limited-slip differential, a Corvette hand-me-down that is standard on the Vsport, forcing the rear rubber to dig tenaciously. Continued...
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On GM’s suicidal handling loop, a woolly ride stitched together from replicas of some of racing’s worst widow-makers, the CTS Vsport glissades comfortably with slashing turn-in, gummy grip, and the scales narrowly balanced between understeer and rear-end looseness. Turn off the stability control and the sedan will go sideways with a flick once you’ve waded into the deep boost, but in such an easy and predictable way as to be thrilling fun. If you’re driving more judiciously for lap times, you can definitely feel the electronically controlled limited-slip differential, a Corvette hand-me-down that is standard on the Vsport, forcing the rear rubber to dig tenaciously. Continued...
#4
04-05-2014, 07:45 AM
Porsche over bugatti for sure. I hate the looks of the bugatti.
Cadillac over the lexus in that comparison as well.
Good write up
Cadillac over the lexus in that comparison as well.
Good write up
#6
04-05-2014, 09:31 AM
I would go the corvette if it is between those cars. I don't really care for those super cars. I definitely like my American made cars better then the foreign cars.
#7
04-05-2014, 10:52 AM
If I had to choose I would say Porsche 918. I like the new Vette but it's getting to the point where it's really common already. I hate looks of the Bugatti. The 918 looks really good and from what I have read it is one heck of a car as well.
#8
04-05-2014, 11:28 AM
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.Not a fan of Porsche either just not my kinda car.
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