SSC Shelby Supercars' Tuatara - 1,350 Hp is born!

[PanterroR]

it's still a very slow moving lizard.

Care to explain?

 

[Bucketslash11]

it's still a very slow moving lizard.

Jerod Shelby explained it as representing the rapid evolution from the Ultimate Aero to the Tuatara

 

[KiwiRob]

Care to explain?

the tuatara is a prehistoric lizard that is native to and only found in NZ, I find it ironic that a fast car is named after a very slow lizard.

 

[WBarnes]

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[Bucketslash11]

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[KiwiRob]

It look like a kit car. I also wonder how safe cars from small companies like this actually are, they don't have the money the big boys have, will it work in city traffic? Can you take it to the supermarket?

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

Can you take it to the supermarket?

Who cares

 

[A.P.]

Their first car, Ultimate Aero TT looked like a kit-car. This looks and sounds really great. You can see the immense power it delivers. Let's see it do a proper speed run.

 

[KiwiRob]

Who cares

Probably the person who buys it? I'd like my hypercar to be somewhat usable not a hanger queen. VW spent over €1 billion on Bugatti, I doubt Shelby has spent even 5% of that.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

Probably the person who buys it? I'd like my hypercar to...

The Ferrari F40 was completely created by mainly one person and his small team for less than 2 months. Its design project cost almost nothing. But this does not prevent it from being at least 1000 times better hypercar than the Bugatti. When you know what you are doing things are not so expensive. The most expensive thing is to design the car for serial production. When it is handmade the investment could be bearable even for a small company, because they can buy ready from the market almost all the equipment concerning the safety of the car.

 

[WBarnes]

Probably the person who buys it? I'd like my hypercar to...

Are you really going to park it in a supermarket car park though? With errant trolleys and tight spaces abundant?

 

[Bucketslash11]

Probably the person who buys it? I'd like my hypercar to be somewhat usable not a hanger queen. VW spent over €1 billion on Bugatti, I doubt Shelby has spent even 5% of that.

how many hypercar companies have the ability to spend 1 billion+ on development? certainly not Koenigsegg, Pagani, maybe Mclaren and Ferrari though it's gonna take quite a bit of their road car budget

Aston Martin and Lotus will not spend that much so they work in collaberation (Red Bull certainly have that kind of moey)

 

[KiwiRob]

The Ferrari F40 was completely created by mainly one person and his small team for less than 2 months. Its design project cost almost nothing. But this does not prevent it from being at least 1000 times better hypercar than the Bugatti. When you know what you are doing things are not so expensive. The most expensive thing is to design the car for serial production. When it is handmade the investment could be bearable even for a small company, because they can buy ready from the market almost all the equipment concerning the safety of the car.

The basic design and chassis already existed, the F40 is an evolution of the 288 GTO Evoluzione

Are you really going to park it in a supermarket car park though? With errant trolleys and tight spaces abundant?

The very first time I saw a McLaren F1 was in a supermarket in Auckland.

how many hypercar companies have the ability to spend 1 billion+ on development? certainly not Koenigsegg, Pagani, maybe Mclaren and Ferrari though it's gonna take quite a bit of their road car budget

Aston Martin and Lotus will not spend that much so they work in collaberation (Red Bull certainly have that kind of moey)

Probably none even close to a billion, but I'd put money on it that they have all spent more then Shelby, the Shelby looks like a kit car to me, it doesn't look finished and if I could afford it why would I buy a car from them? I'd prefer to go to a company with a history in making there kind of products or someone with the financial backing to ensure its done properly. Shelby sit in the same bucket as Zenvo, Glickenhaus, Tushek, Czinger, Aria........why would you?

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

The basic design and chassis already existed, the F40 is an evolution of the 288 GTO Evoluzione

These two cars have very little in common. I posted a video several years ago in the F40 section, in which its creator tells the story of this great product.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

The basic design and chassis already existed, the F40 is...

How much experience in road cars did McLarren have when creating the F1?

 

[WBarnes]

The very first time I saw a McLaren F1 was in a supermarket in Auckland.

I once saw kids playing chicken on a motorway, that doesn't make it a good idea.

 

[KiwiRob]

These two cars very little in common. I posted a video several years ago in the F40 section, in which its creator tells the story of this great product.

They shared versions of the same chassis, same glass house as well, and versions of the same Dino V8.

How much experience in road cars did McLarren have when creating the F1?

They had the genius of Gordon Murray running the show, do Shelby have a Gordon Murray?

 

[KiwiRob]

I once saw kids playing chicken on a motorway, that does...

Cars are made to be driven regardless of the cost, if you can afford to own one you can afford to fix it.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

They shared versions of the same chassis, same glass house as well, and versions of the same Dino V8.

If you like the F40, this video is an absolute must (there are English subtitles)

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[Bucketslash11]

The SSC Tuatara will do 60-120mph in 2.5 seconds
Prepare thine puny minds to be fried by how quickly an American hypercar accelerates

A recent test of the 1,750bhp SSC Tuatara – just your regular ‘buzz-up to 210mph’ checks to monitor shock potentiometer and downforce balances – revealed something quite extraordinary.

“I do have kind of a funny story to share,” SSC boss Jerod Shelby tells TopGear.com. “Early in the particular test day, we did a few 90 per cent throttle second-to-third-to-fourth gear pulls to data log and measure the upshift sequence timing in Track Mode (that produces aggressive shifts).

“I noticed, during those pulls, that I wasn’t feeling any indication of our rev-limiter kicking in at 8,500+rpm. So, when we got back to our facilities, we emailed the data logs off to our master tuner (a daily occurrence), and asked him to verify that the rev-limiter is still programmed to start kicking in lightly at 8,500+rpm.

“I got a call from a very excited tuner later that night, while I was eating dinner with my family, saying: ‘do you realise that you’re going from 60mph to 120mph in 2.5 seconds flat in a couple of these pulls?’

“He said ‘I didn’t think that was physically possible from a 2WD car, but I checked and your logger was tracking six satellites during these runs, so this is legitimate. That is absolutely crazy’, he said.

“My response to him was… ‘what about the rev limiter?!”

Shelby said his tuner reminded him that ‘heavily modified, 2,500-3,000bhp AWD race vehicles run those kinds of times’. The Tuatara of course, is a rear-drive hypercar designed to be driven every day. Woah.

taken from Top Gear