got a spare 3 million?

[TriGuy]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/busin...300/index.html

Geneva (CNN)Swedish automaker Koenigsegg claims its recently unveiled Jesko supercar should be able to achieve speeds of 300 miles per hour.

While the company hasn't been able to prove it yet, if true, that would make the Koenigsegg Jesko the fastest street legal production car in the world — by a wide margin. The current record holder is generally understood to be Koenigsegg's Agara RS, which this car is replacing. An Agara RS went 278 miles an hour on a Nevada Highway in 2017

[Phillbo]

I don't understand the desire to own a 200 mph car when you live in a 80 mph world... Probably could not fit in it anyway.

[UTAH]

I don't understand the desire to own a 200 mph car when you live in a 80 mph world...

You can travel on our salt flats just West of SLC as fast as you want. I go out there every fall to see the speed trials. It just doesn't cost that much to make a car fast. And, we'd have some fun doing it.

The fastest car I had was a MB SL with a V-12 that would do about 150+ MPH. However, those speeds were not recommended because tires, at the time, could not handle that kind of force.

Hunter

[Honda]

That's an automotive work of Art. I would love to spend an hour or two looking at the engineering that went into building that car. It's indeed beautiful

[wacojoe]

You can travel on our salt flats just West of SLC as fast as you want. I go out there every fall to see the speed trials. It just doesn't cost that much to make a car fast. And, we'd have some fun doing it.

The fastest car I had was a MB SL with a V-12 that would do about 150+ MPH. However, those speeds were not recommended because tires, at the time, could not handle that kind of force.

Hunter

I’ve a few Lexus LS models, each of which would do 150mph because I did that in every one, but they all got light & floaty at speed, so I do not recommend it. Anytime I push them all I could think of was tires, tires, tires. I had a Jaguar XJS V-12 back in the day and all it would do was a bit over 140 (the thing was north of 4000 lbs. and aero dynamics of a brick) and all I could think of when topping it out was brakes, brakes, brakes because they were pitiful. Made you want to lean out and drag something.

[UTAH]

Thanks for the comments, Joe.

The thing I've noticed about cars at high speed is how vastly different they handle. Some get squirrely while others actually seem made to handle it.

One of the worst cars I've driven fast was a 1964 Corvette I owned. The damn thing looked beautiful but it was literally scary at high speeds. It's interesting you mention Jaguars - which was my brothers favorite car. Me, I went for the Corvettes - and still miss owning them.

Hunter

[Phillbo]

You want to feel squirrely... 140 mph in 1/4 mile on 2 wheels with the front wheel off the ground for most of it. When it comes down and you get the death wobble and can't lift off the throttle...