Gadgetory

we live in a pretty incredible time I mean there's so many neat cars that come from the factories whether it's in Detroit or out of Europe or Japan and many of these cars interest me personally from the standpoint that you know if the new Corvette comes out with 460 horsepower than 6 50 or 70 horsepower would even be better almost all of our clients come to us for horsepower that's they want their car to go faster they want to have a better sound they want to have a more exciting vehicle to drive and I know there's a lot of shops out there that do other things but all about the power and performance that's something that that inspires me and gets me excited and and that's the same thing with our clients at any given time we have about 60 cars in a shop I'd say a third or forward products a third our GM chevrolet cadillac products and a third or just a smattering of everything else and then the venom is something that's completely different than then the 10 cars a week that we modified the story in the venom is back in two thousand seven road track magazine did a cover story called speed kings and it was a shootout to see which supercar could go from zero to 200 miles per hour in a shortest amount of time anyway so the variety of cars also be gotti event on their 16.4 not the super sport and at the indian we brought a twin-turbo viper venom 1000 viper at the end of the event we were about four seconds faster the tuner miles per hour and we beat the Veyron in that particular competition and afterwards we thought hey this is great but I thought what's next what can we do to go faster and I thought just adding horse powers and all this always the answer what can we do the build a lighter car so we joked about well if we took like a lotus elise or neck siege took out the little 4-cylinder engine out of the back and put that thousand plus horsepower twin-turbo viper engine in it the v10 I passed a joke along to an artist i said look once you sketch me up something i want to see what that looks like you seem to give me the sketches i'm like wow i think i think we could build that car that's really cool so not really having any game plan on how to market or how to tell people about it we always at the SEMA Show and I had some prints of the of the renderings and a guy from Jalopnik came up and suck a camera in my face and says hey Hannah see what's new and I pulled out my renderings and shut him to him and they went on the internet a few days later and so this is like seven years ago and two weeks later some guy from the Middle East calls me up and says hey I want to order a car by the time we couple years later when we delivered the car he paid his million for the car but it cost us over three to develop it so we so we got into a situation where I'm like you know now we're fully committed if we have to sell more cars and so again there was no real business plan to this there's no marketing plan to it it was just kind of a crazy idea that it turned into a reality once the card became a reality then I'm like you know I want this car to be the fast it's not just to talk about being the fastest or I want to have maximum horsepower minimum weight so the venom has 244 horsepower weighs 12 and 44 kilo such a little over 2,700 pounds and we recently set the world's fastest record for a road-legal vehicle at 270 point 4 miles per hour the idea all along was not just to build a cool car powerful car but but to but to show that the venom is the fastest from 0 to 60 it does that in under three seconds but the car really shines from 60 to 200 plus because it just gets her so incredibly quick you're definitely have a power and attraction ratio limitation so you know veyron super sport is going to be the venom the 60 and it would probably be fairly close even to 100 miles per hour but beyond 100 there's just no there's just no competition from the standpoint at the venom the track the vehm has traction control so the traction control does not stop working at full power till about 140 miles per hour if you watch our 270 run you can hear the car you can hear the traction control just fighting to keep the keep it the tires hooked up and right when you pull into fourth gear and hit it in the fourth gear you've got enough downforce on the back of the tire to where you don't have any more traction control at that point you have full power the venom and 140 miles per hour is pulling one point four G's of acceleration the Veyron Super Sport from a standing start with all-wheel drive pulls 1.1 g of acceleration at five miles an hour and 140 we're pulling a 1.4 geez the guise of you gotti I mean they've got the resources or I'm sure they'll come out with the car that just as fast or faster at some point so it's a it's a good thing we I had a really nice chat with the Wolfgang door hi Marie yesterday at the quail and the the chairman and president Bugatti and and where I guess we're kind of like we're friendly competitors but we're kind of kindred spirits that I told him I said woof getting we will we were only able to do what we did because you would set the bar so high you know and so it's kind of fun for us to be a little bit ahead of them and knowing that they're probably going to come back and and in you know raise the bar higher so you know to for the bar to go higher and for cars to go faster you have to have the competitive rivalry and the guys at mclaren ferrari porsche they build some incredible cars with the p1 the 91 a la ferrari but those manufacturers have said Thomas P doesn't matter to us and that's okay and they build great cars you know but for our brand and for the Bugatti guys there's something special about being able to say you're the fastest so we'll take it as long as we can as we can hold that up