Interesting to see most land speed records between 1898 and 1899 were held by electric cars.
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Re: Old Car Speed Records
In the same article;
This petrol car is amazing, check the size of that piston. 25 liter V8 in 1905
This 1905 one-off Darracq appears to be the very first car built from scratch to contain a V8 engine. And what an engine it was. Four sets of pair-cast cylinders with a swept volume of 25,422 cc producing 200 hp in a car that weighed just 900 kg (1982 lb). Streamlining was for weaklings. This is the epitome of the brute power approach.
This petrol car is amazing, check the size of that piston. 25 liter V8 in 1905
This 1905 one-off Darracq appears to be the very first car built from scratch to contain a V8 engine. And what an engine it was. Four sets of pair-cast cylinders with a swept volume of 25,422 cc producing 200 hp in a car that weighed just 900 kg (1982 lb). Streamlining was for weaklings. This is the epitome of the brute power approach.
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Re: Old Car Speed Records
Yoh! That's one big piston! And 25lit for a vehicle that weighs in at a fraction above half of my Lux! It's kinda insane by today's standards but with motor technology barely still in it's infancy at that time I suppose they needed that to generate 200 horses .... nowadays you can get that out of a 2lit 4 cylinder motor if you want to.
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