American supercar maker aims to kick the Bugatti Veyron’s butt… this week
The challengers are lining up to knock off Bugatti’s ballistic Veyron, and the latest upstart is an ultra-niche American purveyor of supercars known as SSC.
Its contender is dubbed — perhaps appropriately — as the Ultimate Aero TT and it packs some seriously heavy-duty hardware. Try this for size: its twin-turbo 6.3-litre V8 punches out a ridiculous 870kW, and an even more absurd 1483Nm of torque (almost three times the quota of a 6.0-litre Holden Commodore SS).
SSC makes some bold claims for the Ultimate Aero, quoting a 0-60mph (0-96km/h) time of 2.78sec and a 0-100mph (0-160km/h) time of just 11.66sec. Its standing quarter mile time is claimed to be 9.90secs, with a terminal speed of 232km/h,
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they say ssc stoll ford focus healights thats f’in crazy
first opf all, the bugatti does 0-60 in 2.9 sec.
the aero ultimate does 0-60 in 2.7 sec.
the ultimate has 1084 horsepower and 1003 pound feet of torque
the bugatti has 1001 horsepower, and only 922 lb ft. of torque
the quarter mile test, the aero claimed 9.1429 sec. at 157 mph
yet, the bugatti did it in 9.8752 sec. at 154 mph
i think we see who the better car is =)
also the bugatti is killed on the track, just thought you should know
I didn’t realise that the Aero TT ultimate had been on the track. We are still waiting for the Aero to beat the Veyron in top speed… perhaps it won’t happen!
Oh yeah, and The ultimate Aero website claims a 1/4 mile time of 9.9sec…
Did you make up that ridiculous 9.1429 number?
yea…lol. 9.1429. It’s quite impossible to measure to such precise number, and secondly, what’s the point of making a car that is even faster that they yeron? yea, the car maker might want to dethrone the yeron, but seriously, it does not make much sense. the yeron is fast enough
Yeah ok. CLAIMS! Anything official yet? Nope didn´t think so. But a lot of lip flapping from states side as usual.
The ultimate aero can go 300/mph AKA 520/kph I know every car in the *world*. And i know the aero can go that fast not 249/mph its 300/mph i have proof on youtube.com and on google.The Bugatti Veyron 18.4 does not stand a chance v.s the ULTIMATE AERO SSC RULES……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1….(:
As i said befor the aero is the best looking fastest sports car ever a 1190HP 20 cilender engine.The worlds best fastest car in hear and only for $1023678 Veyron,s Bugatti is junk compared to this baby and the mclaren f1 lm gtr is soo made they were not happy in 2nd place of the fastest and know they are in 3rd poor them lol LOL !!!!!!!!!…….The Veyron is mad too they hade the tittle of the fastest but the ssc stold its place the 300/mph body os the aero is a amazing machine as i said its 300/mph aka 520/kph is soo fast bugatti was crying i think this car will be the fastest for a long time dont u if u do send me a email at loadfreegames@hotmail.com kk lol the aero is a great car in markets know soo is u want to buy a SSC ULTIMATE AERO TT hurry the best fastest super sports car in the world is know is market and people are buying is ur a fast and feriuos person who likes fast speed cars 20 cilender engines and 1190hp 300/mph aka 520/kph cars then THE ULTIMATE AERO SSC TT IS THE CAR FOR U ……………………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
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Too bad Othman, the SCC Aero only holds a V-8 engine, and by the way only 256 mph was the top speed.
oh and yeah…. learn to spell maybe people would respect ur stupid ass
all of yous dont know what you talking about the mclaren f1 is the best a proper car no turbos 100% reliable it claims wat it does. could you imagine a single turbo on the f1 never mind the 2 and 4 wich you need on your cars just to get to them speeds
oh by the way do you have to have your turbos serviced every 2 to 3000miles while mclaren has gone half way round the world
not Bugatti is the fastest car in the world. Aero have 255mph but Bugatti have 253,3mph. i am sure for this top speed. i see all movies with top speed of Bugatti and Aero. I am crazy for speed
THAT CAR IS ACE I THINK ITS MY BEST CAR SWEET
IF I HAD THE MONEY I WOULD BUY ONE MY SELF BEST CAR EVVVEERRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
America can’t build good super cars!!! There all shit
sorry American people you have it all wrong. firstly the Bugatti is exquisitely made and has a boot,k its 0-60 time mis a claimed 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 253mph, the Bugatti is better in every way, firstly its not American which makes it a 1st class drivers car, then it is as luxurious if not more than a rolls- Royce phantom. When you push a car past 180mph, the world starts to get awfully fizzy and a little bit frightening. When you go past 200mph it actually becomes blurred. Almost like you’re trapped in an early Queen pop video. At this sort of speed the tyres and the suspension are reacting to events that happened some time ago, and they have not finished reacting before they’re being asked to do something else. The result is a terrifying vibration that rattles your optical nerves, causing double vision. This is not good when you’re covering 300ft a second.
Happily, stopping distances become irrelevant because you won’t see the obstacle in the first place. By the time you know it was there, you’ll have gone through the windscreen, through the Pearly Gates and be half way across God’s breakfast table.
It has always been thus. When Louis Rigolly broke the 100mph barrier in his Gobron in 1904, the vibration would have been terrifying. And I dare say that driving an E-type at 150mph in 1966 must have been a bit sporty as well.
But once you go past 200mph it isn’t just the suspension and the tyres you have to worry about. The biggest problem is the air. At 100mph it’s relaxed. At 150mph it’s a breeze. But at 200mph it has sufficient power to lift an 800,000lb jumbo jet off the ground. A 200mph gust of wind is strong enough to knock down an entire city. So getting a car to behave itself in conditions like these is tough.
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At 200mph you can feel the front of the car getting light as it starts to lift. As a result you start to lose your steering, so you aren’t even able to steer round whatever it is you can’t see because of the vibrations. Make no mistake, 200mph is at the limit of what man can do right now. Which is why the new Bugatti Veyron is worthy of some industrial strength genuflection. Because it can do 252mph. And that’s just mad — 252mph means that in straight and level flight this car is as near as makes no difference as fast as a Hawker Hurricane.
You might point out at this juncture that the McLaren F1 could top 240mph, but at that speed it was pretty much out of control. And anyway it really isn’t in the same league as the Bugatti. In a drag race you could let the McLaren get to 120mph before setting off in the Veyron. And you’d still get to 200mph first. The Bugatti is way, way faster than anything else the roads have seen.
Of course, at £810,000, it is also jolly expensive, but when you look at the history of its development you’ll discover it’s rather more than just a car . . .
It all started when Ferdinand Piëch, the swivel-eyed former boss of Volkswagen, bought Bugatti and had someone design a concept car. “This,” he said, “is what the next Bugatti will look like.” And then, without consulting anyone, he went on. “And it vill have an engine that develops 1000 horsepower and it vill be capable of 400kph.”
His engineers were horrified. But they set to work anyway, mating two Audi V8s to create an 8 litre W16. Which was then garnished with four turbochargers. Needless to say, the end result produced about as much power as the earth’s core, which is fine. But somehow the giant had to be cooled, which is why the Veyron has no engine cover and why it has 10 — count them — 10 radiators. Then things got tricky because the power had to be harnessed.
For this, VW went to Ricardo, a British company that makes gearboxes for various Formula One teams.
“God, it was hard,” said one of the engineers I know vaguely. “The gearbox in an F1 car only has to last a few hours. Volkswagen wanted the Veyron’s to last 10 or 20 years. And remember, the Bugatti is a damn sight more powerful than any F1 car.”
The result, a seven-speed double-clutch flappy paddle affair, took a team of 50 engineers five years to perfect.
With this done, the Veyron was shipped to Sauber’s F1 wind tunnel where it quickly became apparent that while the magic 1000bhp figure had been achieved, they were miles off the target top speed of 400kph (248mph). The body of the car just wasn’t aerodynamic enough, and Volkswagen wouldn’t let them change the basic shape to get round the problem.
The bods at Sauber threw up their hands, saying they only had experience of aerodynamics up to maybe 360kph, which is the effective top speed in Formula One. Beyond this point Bugatti was on its own.
Somehow they had to find an extra 30kph, and there was no point in looking to the engine for answers because each extra 1kph increase in speed requires an extra 8bhp from the power plant. An extra 30kph then would need an extra 240bhp. That was not possible.
The extra speed had to come from changing small things on the body. They started by fitting smaller door mirrors, which upped the top speed a bit but at too high a price. It turned out that the bigger ones had been keeping the nose of the car on the ground. Without them the stability was gone.
In other words, the door mirrors were generating downforce. That gives you an idea of how much of a bastard the air can be at this speed.
After some public failures, fires and accidents, and one chief being fired, they hit on the idea of a car that automatically changes shape depending on what speed you’re going.
At 137mph, the nose of the car is lowered by 2in and the big rear spoiler slides into the slipstream. The effect is profound. You can feel the back of the car being pressed into the road.
However, with the spoiler in place the drag is so great you’re limited to just 231mph. To go faster than that you have to stop and insert your ignition key in a slot on the floor. This lowers the whole car still further and locks the big back wing down. Now you have reduced downforce, which means you won’t be going round any corners, but you have a clean shape. And that means you can top 400kph. That’s 370ft a second.
You might want to ponder that for a moment. Covering the length of a football pitch, in a second, in a car. And then you might want to think about the braking system. A VW Polo will generate 0.6g if you stamp on the middle pedal hard. You get that from the air brake alone on a Veyron. Factor in the carbon ceramic discs and you will pull up from 250mph in just 10sec. Sounds good, but in those 10sec you’ll have covered a third of a mile. That’s five football pitches to stop.
I didn’t care. On a recent drive across Europe I desperately wanted to reach the top speed but I ran out of road when the needle hit 240mph. Where, astonishingly, it felt planted. Totally and utterly rock steady. It felt sublime.
Not quiet, though. The engine sounds like Victorian plumbing — it looks like Victorian plumbing as well, to be honest — and the roar from the tyres was biblical. But it still felt brilliant. Utterly, stunningly, mind blowingly, jaw droppingly brilliant.
And then I reached the Alps where, unbelievably, it got better. I expected this road rocket to be absolutely useless in the bends but it felt like a big Lotus Elise.
Occasionally, if I accelerated hard in a tight corner, it behaved strangely as the four-wheel-drive system decided which axle would be best equipped to deal with the wave of power. I won’t say it’s a nasty feel or dangerous. Just weird, in the same way that the duck-billed platypus is weird.
You learn to raise an eyebrow at what’s only a foible, and then, as the road straightens out, steady yourself for Prince Albert’s boiler to gird its loins and play havoc with the space-time continuum. No, really, you come round a bend, see what appears to be miles and miles of dead straight road, bury your foot in the carpet and with a big asthmatic wheeze, bang, you’re instantly at the next bend, with your eyebrow raised again.
From behind the wheel of a Veyron, France is the size of a small coconut. I cannot tell you how fast I crossed it the other day. Because you simply wouldn’t believe me. I also cannot tell you how good this car is. I just don’t have the vocabulary. I just end up stammering and dribbling and talking wide-eyed nonsense. And everyone thinks I’m on drugs.
This car cannot be judged in the same way that we judge other cars. It meets drive-by noise and emission regulations and it can be driven by someone whose only qualification is an ability to reverse round corners and do an emergency stop. So technically it is a car. And yet it just isn’t.
Other cars are small guesthouses on the front at Brighton and the Bugatti is the Burj Al Arab. It makes even the Enzo and the Porsche Carrera GT feel slow and pointless. It is a triumph for lunacy over common sense, a triumph for man over nature and a triumph for Volkswagen over absolutely every other car maker in the world. So don’t even bother auguring that your pathetic little American junkie is in any way better than the infinitely better Bugatti Veyron.
Well said, Bugatti Veyron is by far the best car on the road all around.
the aero looks like ass it looks incredibly generic like a million other cars it has no style the veyron is the sleekest most unique car that oozes style and class period
Ultimate Aero weighs 1,400 lbs less and has 180 more horsepower … and still only manages 2 mph more. Wow, American technology!
it is a load of shit compeard to the Veyron
Yow who ever trying to diss the bugatti veyron they full of shit becaue the car that is soon to beatthe veyron is the barabus tkr. And who ever saythe ssc ulamte look better that buggait they out of the flipping minds . For the guy who change the number or the car and made it to 9.192 u can never come up with an exact number. so stop being a fagit. The veyron rules until the barabus comes out . So don’t shit me up
The above is my new favourite comment
Fully going to start using “Don’t shit me up.” from now on.. Awesome.
http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=6283693
This article says it all… Veyron has never even been officially tested. It is priced at more than double the SSC Ultimate Aero and has a flippin’ 16 cylinder engine. I’m not gonna diss it cuz it is still pretty sweet, but you gotta give the SSC Utimate Aero props because this was made by a boutique automaker in a somewhat small town of Richland, Washington (USA) And Bugatti is a worldwide known name so seriously, you gotta give some props where they are deserved. Anyone talking shit is just a hater because either way, both cars are pretty bad ass… Me personally, I would take the Ultimate Aero.
All I have to say is the “gentleman” that wrote the novel about veyron is full of it because yes it is an incredible car and can do all of that but whom ever has had the grace to drive this machine is not on the internet arguing my car is better than yours! They are to sophisticated for that and they look at these blogs and laugh…. but you should definitly think about applying for a job @ car and driver or one of your oh so prestigious european magazines! This is what it really boils down to is your a very very bitter country yes your pound and euro is worth more than our dollar but you have a self imposed hatred for all american things because in your history lessons your asses were kicked by ours in the American Revolution yet you keep using our ideas where would you be if it wasn’t for Thomas Edison? You would still be scooping up poop from your horse and buggy “cars” and looking for Jack the Ripper with a candle stick!
i love how some European fucks come on there to talk shit about an American car because their car was knocked off at the worlds fastest. It’s official get over it the SSC beat the Veyron, the veyron may have more style or a sleaker look but they were doing a speed test, not a fucking car show. For the person who made a comment about American technology, no sense in even going there, we’re by far the technological advanced country in the world, take a look at the B-2 bomber if you want to see technology, one single plane that could destroy all of Europe, and fyi all you Europeans are welcome since we(the U.S.) saved you asses in World War I and World War II
There is a new veyron that can go over 300mph. Now the SSC is a fast and great car.