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Move aside Veyron, enter the Acabion


New Straits Times
06-24-2007
Move aside Veyron, enter the Acabion
Edition: New Sunday Times
Section: Cars, Bikes & Trucks
Column: News

HOW about a supercar that has a top speed of 547km/h but is powered by a 1.4L engine and the whole car weighs only 360kg? You will be thinking no supercar should have a 1.4L engine, and at 360kg, it must have been built out of papier mache and match sticks.

According to Dr. Peter Maskus, that should be the spec for a true supercar.
"The current stable of supercars is totally inefficient. Certainly 1,360kg is not lightweight and these supercars, though they are not slow, they are not fast either," he says.

The Veyron, according to him, takes 25 seconds to ...

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