The man behind a world-famous supercar name - Christian Von Koenigsegg meets with a well-known TV face - Jay Leno in Laurens, South Carolina. There was only ONE reason for their meeting (see what I did there?). They met to try out this masterpiece: Koenigsegg ONE:1, a limited production megacar; only 7 were made (including one prototype). With this megacar, Koenigsegg achieved something that many supercar manufacturers can only dream off: a 1:1 power-to-weight ratio! Jay Leno says that with this power-to-weigh ratio ONE:1 feels like a go-kart on a track and when you hit the throttle it goes like a lunatic. The custom-made Michelin Cup Tires desperately stick to the surface as the powerful, redesigned 5.0-liter V8 pushes the car to its limits.
On his 17th birthday, Cameron Griggs and his parents, drove to the office to pick up the papers that would change his life. Three months later he kissed his mum goodbye as mixed emotions of fear and excitement flooded his body.
In conclusion, from the early 1950's and 1960's there has been two cars that have taken the American people by storm, the Chevrolet Camaro and the Ford Mustang. Both rivals have tried from day one to out do and out perform each other to bet the first to develop an affordable sports car that handles and performs like a $90,000 dollar muscle car. Each in its own right have established itself on the car market place with such creations by Ford for its 590-HP Super Stallion and Chevrolet for its 600-HP Big Block Camaro. The Camaro and Mustang have been looked at as the "First true American sports cars." They are arguably the two most rivaled sports cars of yesteryear and today. "The Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang are quintessential American pony cars and as such, continue to fight the good fight over which is best" (
In 1960, the American car landscape itself had expanded as Detroit began offering “compacts” alongside their full-size models. Many drivers, however, were looking for something in between these full size and compact model; this interest gave way to a new class, the intermediate. With many innovations between 1960 and 1964, like the 406 cubic inch V8 from Ford, the 389 from General Motors, and the wedge V8s from Chrysler, the golden age of muscle cars began in 1964. The Pontiac Tempest G...
Kasey Reuter is mostly known for being an outstanding Mizzou College Volleyball player. She is a freshman at Mizzou and plans to major in physical therapy (PT). She is 6”1, brunette, plays outside hitter (OH), and is number fifteen . Kasey qualified for Nationals by winning the Show-Me Qualifier, the first-ever qualifier title in club history. She is not just an amazing volleyball player, she was also an elite participant for the track & field team at Hinton (her old high school in Iowa). She was the state High Jump Champion in 2013 and took second in place in the long jump in 2011 and third place in 2010. Also she ran as part of the 4x100m relay that took fourth in the state in 2011, finished as the runner-up in the high jump at the Drake Relays, and was the Junior Olympics high jump runner-up in 2009.
The majority of people, especially in America, cannot go about their daily lives without a car. Automobiles have instilled themselves in peoples’ lives and shown their usefulness since their debut in 1769. Since then, humans have redesigned and refined the automobile thousands of times, each time making the vehicle more efficient and economical than before. Now as the world approaches an ethical decision to dwarf all others, many people look toward automotives for yet another change. The emergence of the hypercar due to ecological turmoil exemplifies the change the world has demanded. Hypercars alter everything people know about automotives, modern ecology, and fuel efficiency. Not only do hypercars offer a solution to many ecological problems humans are faced with now, they also represent the only logical area for the automotive industry, and by some stretch American society, to expand.
At particular times in our nation’s history, citizens have been met with obstacles established by their very own government. These roadblocks,” large or small, can infringe on basic civil liberties ensured by the Constitution.
Schloss Itter was one of the strangest battles in the history of the world. The reason I studied this topic was because it was very peculiar.
Imagine living in a dark and scary world. People are frequently trying to hurt you. Demons speak to you from the shadows. You fear you may kill people with your thoughts. Then imagine you had to step out of the house every day and function like everyone else. How would you accomplish such a thing? Is it even possible? Indeed, while it seems improbable, Elyn Saks shows us that it is not impossible. Saks holds multiple degrees from prestigious universities and has a satisfying career in higher education. She has a close group of friends who cherish her and a husband who accepts her for who she is. Not only is Elyn Saks a woman with schizophrenia functioning in the world, she is functioning perhaps better than most.
Creighton University. Located in Omaha, Nebraska it is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Roman Catholic university. Sitting on a 132-acre campus, the university enrolls about 9,000 undergraduate students a year. It was founded through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who provided the funding to establish Creighton University in memory of her husband, Edward Creighton, a prominent Omaha Businessman.
DJ Kool Herc Clive Campbell, recognized by the stage name DJ Kool Herc, is considered by many to be the founder of hip-hop in the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York City. He is a Jamaican American DJ who is known for using funk and disco records to create prolonged breakbeats that served as the foundation for hip-hop music. Those who danced to the breakbeat were known as break-boys and break-girls, or b-boys, b-girls, and break-dancers. While he spun records, DJ Kool Herc would encourage dancers in a syncopated, rhyme that served as the foundation for what would later become known as emceeing or rapping. Dj Kool Herc began holding block parties that served as a setting perfect for the development of the music and dance culture of hip-hop.
You can never run away from your stupid little bring down problems the way you can when you have a ten cylinder hyper carbon engine and wheels rated for at least three hundred mph.
Starting in the late 1700’s, European engineers began messing with motor powered vehicles. By the mid 1800’s, steam, combustion, and electrical motors had all been attempted. By the 1900’s it wasn’t very clear on which type of engine would really power the automobile. At that time, electric cars were the most popular but there were no batteries at that time that would allow a car to move very fast or a long distance. Commercial production in the United States began at the beginning of the 1900’s. In the early 1900’s, the United States had about two thousand firms producing one or more cars.
Many by now know, the EV that redefined the genre was released to rave reviews. Consumer Reports said that it performed better than any other auto on their test track. Because of all the weight from the low mounted motors it was
The idea of this super car was to be simple yet complexed, small yet lite, very lite, astronomically light. The car was there first of its kind using space age technology, the whole body of the car was composed of carbon fiber, the wheels Magnesium alloy, and the underpinnings titanium. Tis is only but a scratch,Wilson stated each McLaren was made up of 5000 the lightest of the materials on the planet including the three I listed. Nowadays we take this space age technology for granted, for it is now an indoctrinated tradition. Almost every modern super car is now composed of carbon fiber, but back in the early 90s materials like this where so extraordinary you mine as well as made your car out of lumps of Jupiter. When the team designed the F1, everything was accounted for. From the smallest alloy bolt screwed into the car’s wheelbase, to the cars giant 12 cylinder Engine under the bonnet. Murray and McLaren did not cut any corners nor, leave any rocks unturned. Murray said that they were so self conscious about weight, the McLaren F1’s steering shaft and the steering colu...
This paper is a look at the physics behind car racing. We look look at how we can use physics to select tires, how physics can help predict how much traction we will have, how physics helps modern cars get there extreme speed, how physics lets us predict the power of an engine, and how physics can even help the driver find the quickest way around the track.