Fast cars seem to draw people for some reason. There’s a definite allure to going fast and being able to accelerate in a matter of seconds. Maybe that’s why this car is seen as so amazing since it can go up to 250 and back to 0 in less than a minute’s time. That almost seems like a lot to put on a body however, which gives me a lot more respect for those that engage in this type of high-octane behavior. Respect, but not understanding.
Cars are almost like guns to me, I don’t get them but I understand the need and the purpose. Souping them up to such insane levels though doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. It’s impressive, it’s amazing, and it definitely grants them the WOW factor that a lot of people see as important, but it also kind of negates the functionality aspect in favor of the desire to just go fast.
Watch the driver’s hands on the steering wheel as he continues to accelerate. As the car goes faster and faster his control over the wheel has to be absolute or just about anything could happen. When you start hitting speeds of over 100 mph your wheel will jump at the slightest bump in the road no matter how good your suspension is. Going speeds in excess of 100 mph will seriously tax your control and make it necessary to keep an iron grip on the wheel so that you don’t go veering off one way or another. At those speeds if you so much as hit a pebble on the road you might go careening off in either direction with a serious loss of control and no way to correct your steering before something happens.
That being said this kind of stunt is best handled by someone that’s been trained and is experienced in driving such vehicles so that they understand what is needed and how to handle themselves if anything untoward does tend to happen. It’s not all danger and doom however since the mere fact that a car can accelerate and then decelerate in this short span of time is pretty cool. But in my opinion it’s not entirely practical unless used for drag racing.
I’m not an engineer and don’t know a lot about cars but it seems as though you’d need top quality stabilizers to insure that the car didn’t just fly off the rails when going this fast. Something would have to be added in to guard against the likelihood of something happening in this kind of unpredictable situation.
Car fanatics and those that love to simply go fast would obviously love this, but someone that loves the thrill but doesn’t understand the need for the impractical nature of it, like me, just shakes his head and can’t understand the compulsion. Actually, scratch that, I understand it, I just don’t feel the need for it.
That’s right, I don’t feel the need for speed. Take that as you will and realize that I’m still very much impressed by this performance.
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