[s-cars] Audi parent content - Bugatti Veyron testdriveSooperfast250 mph

[Chad Clark]

Matt, you are right. I remember the Don commenting during his trip to Europe 
and driving the RS6 at somewhere close to 170mph, you could actually see the 
fuel needle dropping south. I'd bet somewhere in that 3-5mpg window. Makes 
my instantaneous fuel output of 8mpg during WOT seem rather 'green'.

Chad


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Molyneux" <mmolyneux at gmail.com>
To: <mlped at qwest.net>
Cc: "motogo1" <motogo1 at cox.net>; "s-car-list" <s-car-list at www.audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Audi parent content - Bugatti Veyron 
testdriveSooperfast250 mph


> You could drive it from NY to LA at 250 (closed highways), but it would 
> take
> you a lot longer than 12 hrs. because of this things gas needs. I remember
> reading something on howstuffworks.com <http://howstuffworks.com> that at
> 1,001 HP (the figure they were shooting for during production) the engine
> basically consumed fuel like a jet engine consumes air. I vaguely remember
> the figure being something like 3 miles per gallon. So, it goes without
> saying that the gas stops would happen about once every 15-20 min or so.
> That's a lot of stops, even at 250 mph.
>
> Here's the link: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti1.htm
>
> None the less, that thing is awesome. I can't wait to read more about it.
>
> On 10/1/05, mlp <mlped at qwest.net> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah Gary, those poor factory engineers. They have to come out here
>> frequently to benchmark their new ideas against the competition in
>> Everboost
>> :-)
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: s-car On Behalf Of motogo1
>> >Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:40 AM
>> >
>> >I stumbled across 3 of these being tested at the base
>> >(10,000ft) of Mt Evans in Colorado late August. I couldn't
>> >believe my eyes. Engineer with strong German accent, "Ya, ve
>> >chust testing dem". Didn't realize I was standing among $3
>> >mil. worth of autos.
>> >
>> >Gary Martin
>> >94 UrS4
>> >91 200 TQA
>>
>>
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