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Introduction Welcome to Rapid-Racer, the home for all your car knowledge needs and hopefully a useful resource.
Win the lottery and you could afford to run one of these.
A dragster called the 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower in it's engine than the first 8 rows of the Daytona starting grid. Under full throttle, this monster dragster's engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second. If cars were people then you wouldn't be taking this one down the pub for a drink, you would need shares in a Brewery to fund this night out. This car's engine is the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 Plane, but with 4 times the energy volume. Even the supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi engine makes. Two's company, Three's a rather excited crowd!
This McLaren F1 road car has a Innovative three seat layout, with the driver adopting a fighter pilot style centralised seat at the front of the cabin. One of the all time greatest machines to come out of the 1990's and a design masterpiece. The goal was clear with thin Gordon Murrays designed Ultracar. Even the engine uses Gold plated elements in the structure to get the best heat transfer propeties. McLaren is based in Woking, Surrey. With a strong background in F1 Motor racing also the home of the McLaren SLR and a New production car which is due in 2012. Good things can come in small packages.
From this mild manner Ride. To this Gravel Eating Beast. The Ultimate Car modification? Look at the lengendary Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak Version. This monster of a car was designed to be be driven up Moutains and boasted some 987 BHP in it's engine to help overcome the high altitides. With huge wings and aerodynamics aids to help generate positive downforce to keep this beast on the trial and not take of like on the Playstation games. This is one Race engineering to the extreme. It certainly is a formidable looking machine and is a testament to function over form. By using a light weight spaceframe and 4 wheel drive drivechain system, weight was kept to a minium and traction to the maxium. Making this one of the maddests machines around. Beat the credit crunch and get one of these!
The Greatest distance ever travelled by a vehicle on the standard contents of a 17.5 Galon fuel tank is 1,338 miles. The frugal Audi 100 TDi car's engine was driven between John O'Groats to Lands End, in Great Britain. This amazing trek was completed there and back again, between 26th-28th of July 1992. Ford Escort is the quickest.
The fastest time for removing a car's engine and replacing it, was 42 seconds for a Ford Escort, on 21 November 1985. If only your local Automotive garage completed work this quick, we would save huge amounts on labour cost.
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High Speed Pursuit? The first Police patrol cars owned by the British Metropolitan Police were so slow, it may of been better to issue them with a horse. They couldn't even break the 20 mph speed limit, but have a look at the following Police Interceptors and see what the Crooks are up against on a Global Scale.  Lamborghini Murcielago LP640- Italian design with German engineering, this is one top spec Panda Car.  TechArt Porsche 997- So you have a 911 Turbo and you think your fast enough to get away, think again. Lotus Esprit S4- If it is good enough for James Bond then why not for the Police, I don't think this one will go underwater though. But considering the amount of rain fall in the UK, could be a added upgrade.  Nissan Skyline R34 V Spec II. If your a officer of the Law in Japan, then this Beast from the East is standard equipment. I bet they can't wait for the new fleet of Nissan GTR's to arrive.  Super Turbo anybody? The Lancia Delta S4 a group B Rally car which was in action between 1985 and 1986 was banned due to the cars becoming too dangerous. These Rally cars were deadly quick, with even the most talented drivers having issue controlling them at high speed. This particular model not only had a Turbo, but also a Supercharger. Producing some 550 BHP (officialy), Mid mounted engine and 4 wheel drive. This made a devastating machine capable of 0-62 Mph in some 2.6 seconds.  Ford Motorsport Legacy of the 80's and 90's.
Sierra Cosworth RS500, many a school boy's fantasy and still a testament of what a focused, goal driven Blue Oval can achieve. The GT40 was made to destroy it's competition, much like this icon did in Touring Cars. The four cylinder 2.0 litre turbo charged engined power plant produced some 500 BHP. Actually built by Aston Martin Tickford, this race Homologated special had the BMW M3 in it's sights.But sadly the 1991 British Touring Car regulation changes signalled the competitive retirement of this proud athlete.
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