SSC Tuatara hits 331mph (or not)
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In this case SSC is what used to be Shelby Supercars
Soldato
Haha, reminds me of Clarkson's description of the Ferrari 550:
"All that power is tamed with traction control, but to turn it off is to live...
...briefly"
Haha, quite.Haha, reminds me of Clarkson's description of the Ferrari 550:
"All that power is tamed with traction control, but to turn it off is to live...
...briefly"
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Potentially never happened.
Caporegime
It looks very much like it was faked. A couple of other people have suggested the same.
For those who can't stand Schmee (like myself...) a couple of people who watched the video and work in the industry gave a quick summary:
"He uses distance and time calculations to prove that the tuatara could only be doing 280ish, not 331. Using both road markers and medians on the highway. He lined up the konigsegg video against tuatara, and also used gear ratio math to prove that again, they could only have been doing 280ish. He also brings up a lot of weird coincidences, such as the speedo being blurred in the video but a digital one is shown for you
With the agera rs top speed run superimposed over the tuatara run, at the point at which the tuatara claims to be at a delta of 40mph faster, it reaches the next reference point later than the agera rs."
SSC also claimed a Guinness World Records representative was present, when they weren't.
For those who can't stand Schmee (like myself...) a couple of people who watched the video and work in the industry gave a quick summary:
"He uses distance and time calculations to prove that the tuatara could only be doing 280ish, not 331. Using both road markers and medians on the highway. He lined up the konigsegg video against tuatara, and also used gear ratio math to prove that again, they could only have been doing 280ish. He also brings up a lot of weird coincidences, such as the speedo being blurred in the video but a digital one is shown for you
With the agera rs top speed run superimposed over the tuatara run, at the point at which the tuatara claims to be at a delta of 40mph faster, it reaches the next reference point later than the agera rs."
SSC also claimed a Guinness World Records representative was present, when they weren't.
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300+ is a big number for a Yank to be able to count to. Easy mistake I guess.
What a bonkers record to try and fake though, as if the world would maybe not question it.
What a bonkers record to try and fake though, as if the world would maybe not question it.
I could have sworn it didn't look as fast as everyone was making out, but I thought it was just to the poor camera work. It's almost as if they were intentionally trying to obfuscate how fast it looked...hence the footage take up almost entirely by a speed reading. Now I know why.
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I am sure I saw something somewhere that it was GPS validated so I never really questioned it.
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So either there was an editing mistake by SSC or they've just genuinely made it all up. Youtube car world is never short of drama, that's for sure.
Caporegime
American company so I wouldn't be surprised if they made it all up and thought nobody would notice.
Ah well...
Funnily enough, the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut has a theoretical top speed of 331mph. It's probably fair to say we can trust them to be honest about it when they do their run.
Funnily enough, the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut has a theoretical top speed of 331mph. It's probably fair to say we can trust them to be honest about it when they do their run.
Oh very definitely, or at least they made their lie infinitely more plausible
But seriously I wouldn't ever question Christian, his dedication to all things fast(est) is quite frankly amazing
Absolut(ely)