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Originally posted by venom1 at 26-2-2009 08:28 AM 
kete ni dah bayar cukai ke tak ni...
lamo tok napok demo.....
meh membaca sikit. kita dengar apa kata pensyarah aku dulu......
. It抯 called the Continental Flying Spur and, in essence, it抯 a four-door version of the Continental GT. So you get a twin-turbocharged 6 litre W12 engine that develops 14m horsepower and enough torque to drain a lake. This means it has a top speed of 200mph and that makes it the fastest four-door saloon on the market today. Of course you could argue that the Mercedes S 65 and BMW M5 would be faster were they not electronically limited to 155. True enough, but permit me to let you in on a little secret here.BMW, Mercedes, and Audi for that matter, limit their cars to 155 because, they say, it would be dangerous and environmentally unsound to let them go any faster. This sounds very noble. But there抯 another reason, too. It costs a lot, lot more to make a car with a 200mph top speed than it does to make one that will only ever reach 155.
Take the brakes. If the Flying Spur had been limited to 155 it would only have needed four milk-bottle tops. But because its power is unfettered it is fitted with discs the size of Saturn抯 rings. They抮e the biggest you抣l find on any production car. This, then, is not just a car that can reach 200mph. It is also, more importantly, a car that can stop from 200mph, handle the bumps at 200mph and steer at 200mph.
You wouldn抰 think so from behind the wheel. The air suspension is adjustable, of course, but in the automatic setting it is sublime, gliding over even the most vicious speed bumps. It抯 quiet, too, really quiet. And spacious, and blessed with every conceivable gizmo and toy.
I put two nine-year-old boys in the back and even after an hour they were still completely silent, totally engrossed in the voyage of never ending electronic discovery. Me? I was much more impressed with the chromed ventilation knobs on the dash, each of which felt different. This shows they were put there by hand, not by a robot. I liked that. There was a lot to like in fact. It accelerates with a force that抯 genuinely surprising, it can maintain very high speed without being uncomfortable or unduly noisy and it is exceptional value for money. It looks, feels and goes like a |
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Post time 25-2-2009 02:25 PM
