Hell no, a Honda Civic putting a Lambo in it's place!

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Insane!!!
 
right, but in the end its still a civic, no matter how much money put in it. Also, driving the car is a big part of the performance, if the lambo guy sucked at driving that would allow the civic to have him.
 
I'd still take the Lamborghini. With all the power the civic makes, how much is that actually usable on a daily basis without breaking the law? Not to mention the reliability that is jeopardized.

That being said, as much as I'd love to rev to 9k making 500+ whp, I'd still rather have the Lambo in the Garage.
 
Maybe it's just me but I don't have the same fascination in seeing this type of event. It's simply a matter of a purpose built car going after a nice SuperCar. I guess I really believe these SuperCar's have no business out running the 1/4, unless they're capable of low 10's in the first place. As has been witnessed here, nothing good comes of it. Building a Strip Monster isn't that unusual or difficult. It's simply a matter of money and how fast you want to go, taking in to consideration how deep your wallet is?

Years ago I built engines for a sand race team, money was not the primary concern here. We had world record holders in several classes. The decision was made to give the asphalt a try for a couple of years to add a little variety. We did fairly well here as well.

That said we had a couple of unusual machines to go along with the 640 CID Blown Alcohol BBC and SBC rails. One was a little sand sled that ran 3 Rotax engines off of Ski Doo's. This rail could run configured to run with 1, 2, or 3 engines. When running only one engine, it ran an engine affectionately called the Yamalaris. 3 cylinder engine built to the other companies 2 cylinder machine specs, while using many of these parts (held world records in 3 classes). We also had a snow mobile set up to run on the sand (it too was a world record holder). This was an extremely fast machine. When switched to the asphalt it could run low 10's, these were amazing machines limited only by how much cash could be thrown at them.

It just wasn't that hard to make a machine that would run 10's or just under. These were purpose built vehicles and have none of the mystique or benefits that the SuperCar offers. Not to be a downer here but having been on the other side I just don't see it as particularly special. After all they were making Turboed 4 cylinder Ford Coyote engines cracking 900 horses back in the 70's. Now in my opinion having a vehicle that can crack the 10's and drive itself to and from the track, that's cool! I don't know but perhaps the Civic in this video is one these machines, maybe not.

Maybe we can get Black Bart to chime in on this conversation. He's running a blown and Nitrous Oxide injected Corvette that had about 1200 h.p. as I remember. The thing I'm saying and what he's accomplished is, that short of off road he can drive it anywhere he wants to go and be successful at the 1/4 mile track or over 225 m.p.h. All without trailering the car anywhere. He's probably limited in a case like this only by fuel economy, which I believe relatively speaking, does pretty well.
 
Let's not forget that almost all supercars are built for road courses. Many of these cars were built not to sell cars but to fund their racing programs originally ie Ferrari, Detomaso, etc.
Now the Civic whipping these cars on a multiple lap endurance race would impress me.:)
Still it's pretty quick.
 
Concours.John said:
Let's not forget that almost all supercars are built for road courses. Many of these cars were built not to sell cars but to fund their racing programs originally ie Ferrari, Detomaso, etc.
Now the Civic whipping these cars on a multiple lap endurance race would impress me.:)
Still it's pretty quick.
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Agreed. I've driven the Nurburgring in Germany and if that civic can put a half a second on the lambo's time, then we have a discussion IMO.
 
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