This isnt exatcly related to the rotary that has been talked about for the last 20 pages... lol, but today in physics I was reading my car and driver magazine(I still will ace the test, lol) and I read about a 0-200-0 test. Thought it was pretty interesting, so I will give the basic details here:
5 cars
1. Viper Venom with 1033hp at the crank
2. Chevy correvette around 1100hp
3. Ford gt40 around 1090hp
4. Lambo Murcielago( I think) 885hp, worst power to rate ratio though.
5. Saleen S7 775hp, but light wieght.
All were modified to high horsepower. Except the S7. I think the Ford was hardly modified though. The Vette had like $180,000 in mods.
For the test, the owner of the lambo had it modified so it could break 200 by adding things, and taking some away. It had twin turbos at about 8 pounds of boost. And the AWD was taken off to make it rear-wheel drive.
The S7 also was slower in the lower gears and barely made it to 200mph.
The vette could not complete because of a cracked head gasket after the practice run.
The viper timed in at about 30seconds, the S7 at about 37 seconds, the Gallardo somewhere in between, can't remember... and the Gt40 timed in at 26.5 seconds! The corvette was tested 4 weeks later, in 15 degrees colder weather, so it timed in at 27 seconds before 3 brake rotars cracked in between different tests. Although the corrvette timed in close to the Ford, the writer of the article thinks that the other cars could have done a little better in the colder weather as well.