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Originally Posted by centurion
crufty, the figures were obtained by the journalist and it was him who could not get traction after several tries. It was not a reason given by 9FF. I can't remember any talk about traction control in this 9FF, so I guess the car just didn't have TC.
As for the `kill everything else' it's referring to `production' vehicle, arguably this is a production vehicle, not a one-off. It's mission is to achieve top speed greater than the Veyron, and in that it seems to fulfil the mission though not with so much ease of use. Yes I'm aware of top fuel stuff etc. which perform incredibly, but those are hardly production vehicles.
I'm sorry for my lack of ability to fill in the entire context of the article, I read it and I wrote it here as I remember it, but omitted to transfer the entire context, which was a lot of pages.
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So what differentiates a "production vehicle" from a one-off? What is the criteria for judgement?
Chasing a top speed target or high HP numbers is one thing, but claiming to "not have traction" and "killing everything else" is quite another. To me, it is an incongruence that beggars belief. On the one hand it has an expensive intake manifold yet the car does not have the most basic of essentials which allows it to get to the top speed in the first place. By that time the cheaper cars with proper mods and more power would've left it in the dust a long time ago.