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If Top Gear tried to make a virtual car capable of immense speeds, it'd be a Bovril-powered rocket car with a gun rack in the boot.
Luckily for you, people with sense exist. Pray then, that Red Bull's senior 'make-me-fast-car' chap Adrian Newey and gaming god Kazunori Yamauchi have come together.
They have built the Red Bull X1 - a virtual car free of restrictions and sporting a rather tasty sideline in engine noise. It is a theoretical answer to a question a lot of us probably ponder - what would the world's fastest car look like?
To them, it looks - and sounds - like this.
It has a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 engine developing 1,483bhp and 527lb ft of torque, weighs just 545kg, revs to 15,000rpm, and has a theoretical top speed of 249mph. Pedestrian, considering Captain Slow got a Veyron to do 259.11mph.
Anyway, they've rustled up some workie in a race-suit to take it for a spin around GT5's Nurburgring track. Watch and weep, puny earth cars...
Sebastian Vettel nails the Red Bull ‘X1’
Gran Turismo 5 showcases what the world's fastest car would look like. Looks scary
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fee_ commented on this article
at 01:47 pm on 01 November 2010
AWSOME, Mclaren are better though!!
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julianlee commented on this article
at 01:52 pm on 01 November 2010
bmw x1 lol?
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at 02:06 pm on 01 November 2010
the sound is really bad
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KojirohSakaki commented on this article
at 02:28 pm on 01 November 2010
Forget it. GT 5 was supposed to be released last year, but than they delayed it and said it will be absolutely be out on March this year. but than they delayed it again and said it will be sold at 5th November. and just 1month before the release, they change it and announced it will be released somewhere around the holiday season. that is a crapload of BS and I really want to see someone in SCE committing a hara-kiri before I buy this lier's game.
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at 03:01 pm on 01 November 2010
Looks like this one: http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/67/Caparo_T1_at_British_Motor_Show.jpg Very creative, indeed ;-)
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