Talk:Cadillac Sixteen

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actualy the 16 would have competed with Rols royce and mayback. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.17.198.220 (talk)

[edit] WHOOSH..

how fast would this thing be?? LOL 64.91.201.195 23:24, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

very fast

This car has a said top speed of 260 i think with would make it one of the fastest road cars to date

An Historical Note: Cadillac built the original V-16 car one year before the Stock Market Crash, and built this car just before gas went to $3 a gallon.

Yeah right. This car would get nowhere near 260 mph. It's a helluva lot heavier and infinitely less aerodynamic than the Bugatti Veyron with 1000 hp and a top speed of 252 mph. Look at the Mercedes CL65 AMG for an example of a car with pointless power- if you tune a car for comfort, with a comfortable ride, with non-racing brakes, with standard parts, with lots of leather and wood and a badge carved out of crystal.... then you could give it all the power in the world and it would still be necessary to electronically limit it to 155 mph because it just isn't engineered to deal with the speed. Chaparral2J (talk) 11:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

But just think of the torque ... as also demonstrated with the AMG, overtaking becomes an almost trivial exercise. Course you need traction control to get it off the line efficiently, and a limiter to stop it bursting the tyres and ripping off the trim at top whack, but in the important in-between stages it's simply awesome. 82.46.180.56 (talk) 21:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Details conflict

So what is the gearbox, actually? The main text says 4-speed, but the sidebox says 10-speed. 10sp would suit the advanced nature of the beast, but if you put it in context of massively powerful machines (dragsters and the like), a fairly high-geared 4sp auto may be all that it needs. 82.46.180.56 (talk) 21:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MPG

Top Gear is a UK show, which means that the 20mpg is the UK figure. In the US, it would probably be around 24 in the US

82.21.253.16 (talk) 08:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)