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posted February 17, 2003 12:03 PM
Monster Bike
http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html
The Dodge Tomahawk can reach 60 miles an hour in about 2.5 seconds, and has a theoretical top speed of nearly 400 mph. Each pair of wheels is separated by a few inches and each wheel has an independent suspension. Bernhard said four wheels were necessary to handle the power from the engine.
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rs
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posted February 17, 2003 07:51 PM
400 mph my ass. With those aerodynamics? A turbocharged ZX-11 with 459 rwhp could only manage 236 mph a few years back.
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posted February 17, 2003 09:24 PM
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400 mph my ass. With those aerodynamics? A turbocharged ZX-11 with 459 rwhp could only manage 236 mph a few years back.
I doubth anyone was intended to believe those optimistic speed predictions, but it is worth a look.
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted February 17, 2003 09:32 PM
doesnt matter how fast it is or isnt, its butt ugly....
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freek
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posted February 17, 2003 10:25 PM
incidentally, this 400mph thing seems to have occurred as a result of a game of "phone". the press release i saw, the "official" one, said 300mph. somewhere along the line one or 2 articles said 400. maybe a typo? i dont know. but crysler claimed it would do or approach 300, which _may_ be possible with all those horses...but i doubt it. what's the fastest busa? 250mph? and that's with something like 400hp isnt it? well with the inferior areos of the tomahawk, and the exponential nature of drag, i doubt those 150 or so extra ponies would make up the difference. in fact, i'd bet the tonahawk can't do much better than 250.
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wannabe
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posted February 17, 2003 10:41 PM
I think that they threw this bike on a dyno, and some marketing 'genius' saw it go 300 or 400 mph on the dyno and just assumed that it could do it in the real world too....
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posted February 18, 2003 05:17 AM
Car without a body is all I see
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posted February 18, 2003 06:34 AM
I bet it wont do 200.
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Ninjaman12R
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posted February 18, 2003 09:01 AM
Maybe..........
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I bet it wont do 200.
It might if you pushed it out of an airplane. 
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posted February 18, 2003 09:55 AM
hehe...even thats a big if. Id bet the terminal velocity of a parachute is faster 
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posted February 18, 2003 12:47 PM
I'll bet it not as fast as Bart goin down on a bus station customer!
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