Posts Tagged ‘Bonneville Salt Flats’

Speed Demon 426 mph Record Run at Bonneville – Video

Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:38 by Arman Barari No Comments

Here’s some footage of George Poteet piloting the Speed Demon at Bonneville Speedweek 2011 to hit the incredible record of 426 mph. Granted, it’s just an opportunity for Replay XD to show off their fastest 1080 camera, but it’s fascinating to see how a 2,200 hp demon takes off and achieves that insane speed without [...]

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Bonneville Skoda Octavia vRS Hits 227 mph

Monday, August 22, 2011 13:25 by Arman Barari No Comments

After accomplishing their goal of clocking 200 mph, Skoda team decided to have a crack at breaking the speed record for 2.0 liter produciton cars. And guess what… Read More… Yes, they’ve done that too. In fact they got a bit carried away and instead of going slightly over the previous record of 216 mph, [...]

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Skoda Octavia vRS Cracks 200 mph Barrier At Bonneville

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:50 by Arman Barari No Comments

You may remember back in June Skoda announced they are going to take on Bonneville Salt Flats with a purpose-built Octavia vRS and hit 200 mph. Well, they’ve done it. Read More… The car actually clocked 202.15 mph. There couldn’t have been a better way to celebrate the Octavia’s 10th anniversary. This Octavia vRS was [...]

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600hp Skoda Octavia vRS Takes On Bonneville Salt Flats

Thursday, June 9, 2011 15:49 by Arman Barari 1 Comment

Celebrating 10th anniversary of its vRS performance brand, Skoda UK decided to take on the Bonneville Salt Flats in an Octavia sedan! Read More… It is no ordinary Octavia of course. It is an one-off modified Octavia vRS saloon, powered by production-standard 2.0-litre four-cylinder TSI petrol engine. The only difference is the turbocharger unit, which [...]

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1985 Ferrari 288 GTO – World’s Fastest Ferrari

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 13:49 by Arman Barari No Comments

Well, not quite so to be honest! You see this 25 years old Ferrari did hit 275.401 mph at the Bonneville salt flats, and that does make it the world’s fastest Ferrari. But the thing is, it’s not a Ferrari! I mean it is a Ferrari of course, a very beautiful 288 GTO belonging to [...]

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Video: Suzuki Kizashi Bonneville 203 mph Record

Thursday, August 19, 2010 13:03 by Arman Barari No Comments

Remember the Suzuki Kizashi Bonneville Special we told you about a few weeks ago that’s developed by Suzuki and Road&Track magazine to break the 200 mph barrier? We even brought to you all making of videos of the car as it was in the works. Now though it’s finished, and as you see here it [...]

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Videos: Suzuki Kizashi Bonneville – The Making Of

Thursday, August 12, 2010 20:04 by Arman Barari No Comments

We have already told you about the very special 500-hp Suzuki Kizashi that’s being prepared by the Japanese company and American Road & Track magazine to break the 202 MPH speed record at this year’s Bonneville Salts Flats Speed Week. It is of course a very hard task turning an innocent family sedan into a [...]

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