Re: New Bugattiwagen racecar?

["Aaron D. Patton" <apatton1@airmail.net>]

That's not a lot of horsepower for 26 litres worth of displacement and who
knows how much weight.  You'd be better off attaching a pair of turbos to a
W-12 and running nitro-methane.
Aaron
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From: Chris Chemidlin <spredhaus@hotmail.com>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 11:03 AM
Subject: New Bugattiwagen racecar?


>Something interesting from http://www.vwvortex.com
>
>Bugatti Racing Car Rumors
>          A month after buying the rights to the legendary
>          prewar Bugatti marque, Volkswagen reportedly plans
>          to attach it to a prototype of a new racing car it will
>          display at the Paris Auto Show.
>
>          The daily Braunschweiger Zeitung reported Thursday
>          that VW would unveil a new Bugatti with a unique
>          18-cylinder engine in Paris Sept. 29. But it said the
>          automaker has yet to decide whether to produce the
>          car for sale.
>
>          The fuel-injected engine, three VR6 motors put
>          together, will put out 600 horsepower, the newspaper
>          said.
>
>          Volkswagen spokesman Kurt Rippholz declined to
>          comment on the report, but sources within the
>          company said the actual performance is slightly
>          lower.
>
>          The company had been negotiating for the rights to
>          the Bugatti name for more than a year before closing
>          a deal in August with Luxembourg-based Bugatti
>          International S.A. for an undisclosed sum.
>
>          VW's interest in reviving the nameplate, which gained
>          fame in the early 1900s with spectacular successes on
>          European racetracks, reportedly has waned, however,
>          with its acquisitions this year of the luxury Bentley and
>          Lamborghini lines.
>
>
>
>
>So Vw can make a w12 out of 2 VR6's, and an 18cyl out of 3 VR6's, I say
>we build a 54cyl out of 3 bugattis...That's like 1800hp!
>hahahahahahahahahahahaha....
>
>
>                       CHRIS CHEMIDLIN
>
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