Bugatti Veyron vs Lamborghini Aventador vs Lexus LFA vs McLaren MP4-12C - Head 2 Head Episode 8

Together they cost as much as an entire suburban neighborhood, but can any of these carbon fiber supercars beat the Bugatti Veyron in this week's very special edition of

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of face to face why, because we have three cars behind us that are worth about a million dollars and they are sitting on an airport tarmac, the problem It's just that we couldn't choose which of those two cars we like better, you get a million dollars. In a supercar, you have a track and you have no security to get off.

I think what you have to do is line them up, race them and see which one is actually faster, so I think we'll race the v8 car against the v10 car, the winner. from that race it gets to run the v12 sounds good in the silver corner we have the McLaren mp4-12c strange name tremendously fast car 3.8 liter v8 with two turbos tied in the back in the yellow corner Lexus LFA is a 4.8 liter v10 without turbos So It makes 50 less horsepower, but it's still a very fast car. Both are rear-wheel drive, but the McLaren is mid-engined, so it has more weight in the rear, which means a quicker start.

Which is faster in 1/4? and the McLaren wins, let's go back and take another look at that slow motion launch from the line, you'll see that both cars are moving with minimal wheel spin, but the rear weight of the McLaren helps it move forward and that's exactly where stays for the rest of the race, the Lexus v10 screams like a Formula One car, but screaming isn't enough and the McLaren reaches the quarter-mile marker eight tenths of a second earlier and almost six miles per hour faster. Okay, Lexus is kind of like that. The slowest of the group, but that's okay because it sounds better anyway, in the second round we have the McLaren against a Lamborghini Aventador with a v12 engine.

This is a six and a half liter v12 that makes one hundred and one more horsepower than the McLaren. Lambo has all-wheel drive, which means it goes off the line if that's enough to keep it ahead for the quarter mile, let's find out, wait, what happens so soon, okay, let's watch it again in slow motion, the McLaren jumps off the line. line because well, I was driving, I cheated, but cheating is no match for the four-wheel drive launch and the Aventador is the most violent in the whole business thanks to its single-clutch automated manual, the shifts are just as painful if you ever want to make Your passenger cries, you put them in a Lambo.

Luckily, it was all over in just ten point six seconds. The Lambo passed the quarter-mile mark at one hundred thirty-three point nine miles per hour. What does it mean that the Lamborghini Aventador is the fastest? carbon fiber supercar in the world hmm no and of course it's the Bugatti Veyron which is the undisputed king of speed, the Grand Sport there has 16 cylinders compared to only 12 and it has four turbochargers breathing air into those 16 cylinders, making one thousand and one horsepower or 987 North American horsepower or six point eight billion someone else's horsepower, it doesn't matter, it's very fast, so we thought we should probably line them up to find out if the Veyron is even faster than the Lamborghini or if the Lamborghini is faster than its evil French twin sister.

Oh come on, you really didn't think the Veyron was going to lose a drag race to his little sister. I mean, remember that these two cars come from the same Volkswagen Group family and let's be honest. It's what happens after the quarter-mile mark that really counts. The Veyron is still going 253 miles per hour versus the Lamborghinis 217. The Bugatti is still the king of speed, but I think the important thing here is that it is a fast Lamborghini.