WEBVTT - Fastest Sedans Under $50K 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to the Fast Track, a production of I Heart Radios, 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:16.120 How Stuff Works. Hello, and welcome to the Fast Track. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.400 I'm your host, Scott Benjamin, and today I've got a 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.400 special guest in the studio. It's my producer Kurt. Hey, guys, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.360 I'm always in the studio, but usually I'm sitting across there, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.880 So it's interesting to be on this side of the table. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.960 You know what. I have found that, as you've heard 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.560 in the past, I've had a little trouble like just 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.400 kind of carry on this monologue, and it's much better 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.320 to be able to talk to somebody and have somebody 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.279 to kind of bounce things off of. And I think 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.599 that Kurt is somebody that I can talk to and 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.000 and we can really get some information out in a 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.279 lot better way, you know, Like back when I had 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.800 a podcast partner, it seems like it was a lot easier. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.479 And hopefully with Kurt here across the table from me, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.319 I'll be able to do that a little bit more 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.760 effectively and have a much better show for you, and 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.440 hopefully it's a little bit more entertaining. And uh, I'll 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.600 tell you, in the last few years, I've been more 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.040 and more of a fan of the Sedan, and I 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.440 didn't think that I would be early days. You know, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.480 there's a lot of times in life when you have 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.119 different choices with with automobiles, and when I was younger, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.520 I really like the coups. I like to like buy 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.040 the sports cars. I guess maybe like the the Honda 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.240 Civic S I that kind of thing or But I 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.800 also I had a Toyota SELT like a GT that 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.600 was a two door coup as well, and it was 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.560 kind of fun to drive for a while. But I 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.240 did eventually kind of come around the idea that I 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.760 needed a Sedan, and that was when I had a 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.800 kid for the first time. But actually, of all things, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.520 I got an Audi A four and I really really 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.600 enjoyed that car. It was a ton of fun. I 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.839 held it for a long time, and uh it eventually 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.120 required many many repairs in one year, and that was 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.960 kind of the downfall the whole thing. But as far 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.400 as Sedan's went, that was a fantastic way for me 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.280 to kind of put both my feet in the water 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.480 and get excited about Sedan's because it was a great car. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.640 It was fantastic to drive. It was as an all 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.840 wheel drive car, it was a manual transmission, five speed. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.640 It was a long time with was about nine I 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.240 think is when I got it, and it was a 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.200 ninety nine. I think I got around two thousand one. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.800 Maybe it's a couple of years old. And I really 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.120 enjoyed it. I drove it for many, many years, and 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.240 I went right from that into another coupe and then I, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.160 you know, kind of a hot hatchbag. I guess maybe 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.280 a Civic s I Civic hatch back. It was just 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.400 it was a basic, the basic, but I loved it. Yeah. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.040 Oh yeah, they're fun to drive, aren't they. I mean 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.480 it's a it's a blast and the real easy. Oh yeah, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.280 exactly right. It's a lot of fun. And you know, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.040 I ended up driving my Civic Asike for a long 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.560 time and I got rid of that and I got 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.240 a Volkswagen C seat. Now, the funny thing about this 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:38.720 is that I didn't think that I was going to 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.720 get another sit in for a long time. I mean, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.959 I have an adult child, she's she's almost eighteen, you know, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.160 ready to go into college and everything. But I've had 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.080 this for a little while now, so I did need 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.960 a back seat. I needed some extra space for people 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.239 I needed to be able to carry some friends around 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.920 or whatever and just have the room for carrying some 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.440 things on the weekends, that kind of thing. And uh, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.240 and it's today and seemed to be the way to go. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.280 But I didn't have a whole lot of money to 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.040 buy like a performance today, and I didn't have a 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.120 lot of money for like a luxury sdan or anything 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.639 like that. And I'll tell you my my it's again. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.000 It's a Volkswagon CC. It's a two twelve, and it's 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.520 kind of in between, and it's a It's a funny thing. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.160 I've I've thought about this many many times while I'm 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.600 driving it. It's not quite luxury, it's not quite sport. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.520 CC oddly enough stands for Comfort Coup, which is weird 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.320 because it's a four door car. I don't know why 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.240 they called it comfort Coup. But CC sedan is fantastic 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.280 and I love it. The only problem that I've ever 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.080 had with this whole thing is that the car just 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.040 doesn't seem to want to drive in hot weather. Now 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.080 here's the problem, you Like, we live in Atlanta, and yesterday, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.000 this is early September in Atlanta. The temperature gauge on 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.280 my car on the way home yesterday read one hundred 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.440 and one degrees um, so it's humid hot. We've got 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.360 hurricanes nearby. I don't know what the deal is with 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.040 this whole thing. The fuel pump overheats, it shuts down. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.400 It's just a it's a disaster in that way. But 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.720 I do have a good time driving this car, and 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.440 it it's something that I didn't think that I would 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.800 ever really enjoy driving, Like I didn't think I would 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.240 really enjoy driving a sedan, but I do. There are 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.960 many choices out there, and later today in the show, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.160 we're gonna talk about some of the most powerful sedans 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.360 under fifty thou dollars. Now, I know there's a lot 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.839 of qualifiers in there, and we're going to talk about that, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.760 but I chose to pick for today's list the most 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.880 powerful sedans under fifty thou dollars. And there's a reason 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.320 I chose that price point, and we'll talk about that 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.320 in just a bit. But there's a there's a few 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.320 news things that I want to get to. There's a 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.479 couple of things that happened over the weekend, and actually 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.679 I'm gonna start off with news is not good news. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.640 The first thing that I want to talk about is 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.000 the uh, the death of Jesse Colmbs. She was attempting 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.839 to land speed record. I think it was in the 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.000 desert somewhere, right, wasn't it. It It was out west, Think 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.000 it was in Alvoord, Desert, Oregon. Yeah, yeah, exactly. She 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.680 was out far, far out west somewhere. She was attempting 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.719 to reach something like like six hundred and nineteen miles 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.440 per hour in like a rocket powered car. She was 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.320 already the fastest woman on four wheels already. Um. She 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:09.279 was the host for a short time for MythBusters Overhauling 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.760 UM Extreme four by four. There was a bunch of 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.479 television shows and if you look up a photo of 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.800 Jesse Colmbs, you would probably recognize her almost immediately. I 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.960 would think. I mean a lot of people that are 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.040 listening to the show or you know, kind of fans 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.680 of that type of thing, and they already know who 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.240 she is. Tragic death. Of course, she was about thirty 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.599 nine years old, or she was thirty nine years old 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.479 when this happened. And again that pursuit of speed. You know, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.720 we just did a It's very timely, I guess, because 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.480 we were just talking about the thrust SSC supersonic car 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.880 and the ultimate record that it had, which was what 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.240 like seven sixty three or something like that. It's crazy 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.640 like that. Yeah, it is an insane speed. It was 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.479 above the sound barrier. Yeah, we were just talking about that. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.080 And then there was another death this weekend, um and 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.440 something that you know I had talked about on tech stuff. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.560 I talked with Jonathan Strickland on tech stuff about Formula 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.160 two and there's a guy named Antoine hugh Bert and 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.040 he was only twenty two years old. He's a Formula 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.640 two driver. He's a French driver. Also passed away on 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.000 this weekend, and it's relatively unheard of. It doesn't it 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.840 doesn't happen allay that often because there's so many safety 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.120 features in place in Formula one, Formula to Formula all 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.560 of the racing series, actually the f I a series 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.960 where they are involved in an accident that generally the 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.200 driver is very well protected. This in this case, the 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.839 car was actually severed in two and it was extremely 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.600 high speed crash. And uh. And we'll talk about Formula two, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.960 I'm sure in the future. And the third bit of news, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.640 this is a little bit of a happier news so 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.240 let's let's kind of cheer up a little bit. This 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.000 is really cool. This is this happened only a few 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.839 days ago. And I don't know if you even know 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.440 about this, but the Bugatti and I'm going to get 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:52.000 this name right this time, Sharon achieved the fastest production 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.680 car speed record ever and get this, three hundred and 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.560 four miles per hour. Three three hundred four points seven 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.680 seven miles per hour. So they've they've kind of like 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.200 bridge this mythical. And I'll say mythical, it's not really 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.120 mythical because people have been doing it on the on 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.680 the Salt Last for a long long time. But as 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.280 far as like just on a on a road crossing 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.000 the three per hour barrier is incredible. It's it's just 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.520 like it's an unbelievable feat really, and manufacturer has been 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:24.960 trying to do this for a long long time. And 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.680 of course Kona seg there's gonna be many many other 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.640 manufacturers that are going to attempt to break this. Of course, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.040 Hannessy is gonna try to break it, and and I'm 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.760 sure that you know, somebody will break this record. And 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.840 here's the strange thing. I'm gonna tell you a few 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.760 interesting little facts about this the speed record, if you 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.760 don't mind, if you can just like of a few 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.920 things without without without like, now, is this considered a 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.720 production car? I'm glad you said that. I'm actually really 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.880 glad you said that, because that's one big part of 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.000 this whole thing is that they claim it's a production car, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.240 but it's like an early product version of a specialty 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.080 car that they're producing, like of course Bugatti. Is they 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.520 produced like these? Um I almost want to say it's 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.520 like boutique sports cars really because they only produce a 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.360 certain amount and there, you know, value to three million 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.480 dollars something like that. It's very very expensive car. And 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.200 this particular car is like an early production version that 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.360 has several modifications. And I have a little bit of 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.040 problem with this, as do a lot of people that 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.040 I've read about in some of the forums. And it 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.720 seems like the Sharon that they tested just a few 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.679 days ago. Again, it was like it was stretched one foot, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.000 like the whole frame of stretched one foot, so the 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.079 body work is all stretched out. It's like a um, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.960 consider it like a long tail version of the Sharon. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.440 And then it was lowered. They also drilled some holes 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.320 in the panels, I guess, like the front faces so 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.880 that you know, like the the air flow is a 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.880 little bit better through it because here, okay, well we're 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.200 getting into some of the interesting parts of this, I guess, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:59.079 and we'll just start here. When a typical jet aircraft 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.080 takes off, like if you're on you know you're going 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.480 to Miami. Let's you're on to Miami, you're in a 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.400 jet aircraft, delta of whatever you get in the airplane 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.480 about one hundred and fifty miles per hour. That's where 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.079 the airplane takes off. That's when it can achieve flight. Okay, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.600 a lot of people drive a hundred fifty miles an hour, right, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.880 Cars can do that, right. The problem is about that 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.640 speed of course, that's where lift happens. You're able to 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.720 you're able to take off. And the problem with a 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.920 car like this is that that car might take off, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.199 and it's a true thing like it might take off. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.400 We've seen that in racing many many times on racetracks 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.480 where cars are you know, going over just a slight bump, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.839 a slight increase in in altitude, and the air the 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.480 car just air comes underneath the vehicle. List it up. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.240 Car flips in the air and it might end up 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.000 in the woods somewhere or something like that we've seen 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.320 in the past. The problem with this car is that 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.200 you're going twice that speed. You're going twice the speed 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.840 of a typical aircraft when it takes off. And the 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.480 way they did this was I guess they I should 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:58.800 tell you where they did this, and I think it's 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.720 called the air Lesson Track in Germany, and it's Volkswagen's 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.800 high speed test track and it's the one that has 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.079 like you know, high speed banks on both the entry 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.120 and the exit to this track as well, so you 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:11.839 can be able to go into it fast and come 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.240 out of it fast. But in the middle there's this 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.920 incredible I think it's five point four miles long that 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.760 it's a straight track and you can actually see the 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.200 curvature of the earth in this track. It's that long. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.280 It's it's like that long, that's straight. I think I've 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.200 fot of that in the past. Yeah, you probably have, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.080 because I'm um. Top Gear infamously did a top speed 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.720 record run with the Bugatti Veron that was what two 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.720 d and sixty eight miles per hour. Okay, So now 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.000 so now they've topped that by what thirty seven miles 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.600 per hour or something like that. They've gone, They've gone 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.520 faster than than ever before and the same track. And again, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.840 this is one of the advantages that the Bugatti and 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.120 Volkswagan have over the other manufacturers, and that they can 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.280 test on this track and do this kind of thing, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.440 the car to perform on this particular landscape. Exactly. Yeah, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.240 they're not They're not allowing Gona Saga or you know, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.120 m Hennessey or anybody to come on and test their 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.200 car on that type of track. And the problem that 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.160 I've read about, gosh, I'm going all over the place. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.760 I'm sorry, I'm a disaster today. But um, they are exciting. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.960 I'm like, I'm jazzed about this. You could tell I'm 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.080 excited about this. So, like the thing is like the 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.360 car is able to go that fast because of the 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.200 facility that they have and they're allowed to do this 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.720 type of thing. Any manufacturer that is going to do 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.520 this type of thing has to rent a facility. It 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.400 just seems like there's not gonna be a lot of 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.360 opportunity for the other manufacturers to do it unless they 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.760 block off a certain amount of road in maybe one 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.240 of the western states, like I think Kona Saga has 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.120 done this in the past, where they achieve like two 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.839 seventy plus on some desolate stretch of highway out in 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.880 the desert. You know, they they sealed it off. But 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.000 the problem is, and I guess we'll maybe the same 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.160 with the the aer a lesson track, is that, um, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.280 you know, you get a deer that runs across at 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.080 that type of speed, or you get a dog that 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.720 runs onto the track, or I mean, you know, a 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.280 pit or a cow or whatever you know, wanders out 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.719 onto the road, you're in trouble. I mean, that's that's 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:09.400 about it. For like a stone or something exactly right, 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.280 or you have to have a controlled environment exactly and 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.000 an air lesson is generally a controlled environment. And and 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.800 I'll tell you a couple of things about this and 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.199 then we'll move on, I promise. But um Bugatti is saying, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.120 you know what, now that we've broken three d and 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.440 four miles per hour or three and almost three and 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.920 or five, we're done. The crazy thing about this is 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.360 that these types of speeds, air lesson is only smooth 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.200 enough to run in one direction, to run miles. Now, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.840 if you look at that track. It's a beautiful track. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.000 I mean, it looks like the perfect piece of asphalt. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.280 It looks like it's incredible, like well groomed, well maintained everything. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.640 But apparently at that type of speed, there's just no 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.360 way that you were able to run that type of 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.679 speed coming back the other direction. Now I don't think 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.800 that has anything to do with like the air speed 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.760 or you know, the direction or anything like that, but uh, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.720 they said that it's just not to be able to 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.920 do that. And there are certain governing bodies that say that, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.040 here's the way you did a world record for full 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.000 speed run, and it's typically two runs. It's one in 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.320 each direction, you know. And I think we talked about 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.720 this with the thrust S sc is that you have 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.040 to run one direction, turn around, and come back the 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.600 other direction in less than an hour, and it's the 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.600 average of those two speeds. Crazy enough, but they said, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.560 you know what, we've We've broken three four. We're fine 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.440 with that. We're happy. They will always be in the 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.960 record book as the first one to break that record. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.240 And finally, I'm getting to what I wanted to say. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.200 I guess about this car, you know, we said that 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.160 it was modified that it was, you know, strength, It 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.880 was lengthened rather about a foot, so it has this 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.760 elongated body look. It has kind of like a um 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.480 a long tail look to it. Um It has a 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.800 lower suspension. It has holes drilled in the offenders in 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.360 order to increase air flow so that, you know, the 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.520 lift is reduced in some way. When the driver, I 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.400 think his name is Andy Wallace. I'm I'm stretching my 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.120 memory here, and Andy Wallace incrementally took the car up 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.880 fifty I think it was fifty kilometers per hour on 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.000 several several runs in order to like determine whether or 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.199 not the car was balanced correctly, if it was able 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.880 to maintain the downward force that it needed. So it 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.520 wasn't like feeling like it was going to lift, because 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.800 you know, as you start getting faster and faster and faster, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.400 you just don't know how the car is gonna handle, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.400 how it's going to react. But it took many, many 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.440 runs to get there. It wasn't something that was done easily. Now, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.400 maybe one of the most interesting facts about this whole thing, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.080 and I'll leave it at this, the tires in the car. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.160 We talked about tires on the thrust SSC and how 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.640 like they can't really have rubber tires. Uh, this car 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.520 does have rubber tires obviously, and it's on a tarmac. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.840 Has to have rubber tires. And in order to have 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.440 tires that can handle that type of g force, that 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.520 type of heat and just the rotational speed be able 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.320 to handle that without breaking apart, they made these tires 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.440 especially for this car. And shoot, I wish I had 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.600 the manufacturer in front of me now right now I don't, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.680 but it was they were made by somebody that created 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.720 these tires specifically for this one run. And the weird 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.080 thing about this is, now imagine this. These these tires 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:13.720 cost thirty thousand dollars per set, thirty thousand per set 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.440 before they replied to the car, just in order to 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.080 check the integrity of them, in order to check to 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.480 make sure that, you know, the manufacturing process was correct 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.120 for for them, they X rayed the tires before they 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.680 put them on the car to make sure that like 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:31.080 everything was exactly what. There were zero defects in those 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.960 tires before they put them on the car. Now, can 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.880 you imagine the attention to detail that, you know, like 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.880 when they're making holes in the car. They probably didn't 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.480 just drill them anywhere. They you know, it's like they, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.160 I'm sure it was a very well thought out plan. No, absolutely, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.560 you've got yeah, you've got you've got You've got Bugatti 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.280 engineers saying all right, here, we've got this this car, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.080 the Sharon Car, right, and and it's capable of zero 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.800 to sixty and I don't know two seconds or whatever 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.200 it is, two points six seconds something like that. It's 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.800 already this incredible world beating supercar. It's you know, made 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.680 a lot with a lot of carbon fiber. It's it's 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.880 it's just it's an incredible vehicle. It's already three million dollars. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.280 Let's make one that's even better. Let's make one that's 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.880 even the tops that and how are we going to 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.800 do that? So it lets you know that the you know, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.600 the the engineers, the people that are putting this thing 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.760 together are that that's the mindset of them that if 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.640 they want to like just push the envelope, they want 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.760 to go faster, they want to go farther. And that's 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.640 what really is is interesting about this is that like 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.760 they are really really pushing the boundaries of this whole thing. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.960 And and I love what they're doing with it. I 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.400 think it's just really fascinating. Um. But but to go 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.000 as far as like once you start reading about things 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.160 like where they're X raying the tires before they put 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.840 them on, that type of thing, to me is just 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.200 ultimately fascinating. It's it's it's amazing, and I would love 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.040 to know. Um, you know, who even dreams up this 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.960 type of thing, you like, who says you know what? 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.800 You know what? I never, personally, I would never even 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.400 think of that. I would think, like, we get the 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.920 thirty thou dollar set of tires, great, let's put them 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.960 on the car the best. They must be the best. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.400 You know. I know that they manufactured them perfectly, but 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.240 you know someone was saying, now, you know what, we've 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.320 got to check them. And that's going back to the 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.840 sad news you spoke about at the beginning of this segment. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.560 When you see the numbers and you see you read 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.840 the article and you look at the car, you forget 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.919 about the inherent danger in this pursuit. These people that 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.720 do this are in constant danger while they're doing it, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.000 and the tires are that that's what hits the road, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.719 that's where it all begins. Absolutely, I would imagine that 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.920 that's in their mind too, you know, just thinking about 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.120 mitigating disaster of course, human being, that's uh that's doing this. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:41.840 You know. I'm sure that when they were when they 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:43.560 were doing all this, they're thinking like, Okay, how are 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.439 we gonna keep Andy Wallace alive? Because you know, we 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.960 don't want we don't want Andy Wallace to die as 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.800 he's doing this, as he's creating this record. I mean, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.639 that would be the worst news ever. Like, that's the 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.840 that's the worst pr evert when I get that, And 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.359 it's not just you know about pr it's it's about 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.800 the person, you know, they want to make sure that 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.120 the person is safe. Of course. I mean I think 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.240 that the people have a genuine appreciation for the people 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.399 that that put their lives at stake in order to 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.119 do this kind of thing and to push the limit 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.520 and to kind of it makes everybody, Uh, it makes everything, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:15.919 I guess a little bit better. And you know what, 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.200 I feel like we've we've kind of gone off track. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.240 But there was so much news happening this weekend and 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:21.879 I just felt like we needed to talk about it. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.280 We should probably get into our list, which is going 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.560 to be the most powerful sedans under fifty dollars, and 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.520 we'll get to that very soon right after this break. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.760 And we're back and you're listening to the fast Track, 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.800 and I'm your host, Scott Benjamin, and today I'm joined 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.880