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From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net
In article <52e1dc57$0$52801$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net
says...
>
> On 1/23/2014 4:42 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> > In article <52e0c96f$0$52806$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net
> > says...
> >>
> >> On 1/22/2014 4:19 PM, Your Name wrote:
> >>> In article , Thomas Koenig
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Robert Bannister schrieb:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Much of the rail system goes down the
> >>>>> middle of two of our freeways, and when you're stuck in the traffic it
> >>>>> is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past.
> >>>>
> >>>> Trains are a good alternative for some routes in Germany. Germany,
> >>>> being a fairly densly popoulated country, has a reasonably dense
> >>>> rail network.
> >>>>
> >>>> The ICE 3 trains between Cologne and Frankfurt airport are quite
> >>>> fast, up to 300 km/h (185 mph). They run parallel to the Autobahn,
> >>>> and you cannot hope to pass them in a car, even if there is
> >>>> no traffic jam :-)
> >>>
> >>> Two words: Bugatti Veyron. ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Ugly as sin, but fast ... of course you would need to stop to refuel it
> >>> every 50 metres, which means the train still gets there first. :-)
> >>>
> >> Just don't car pool with Jeremy Clarkson.
> >
> > Who raced the train from London to Milan and came close to beating it,
> > with a Ford Mustang. If he had been driving a Veyron he might have won.
> >
> IIRC part of why he lost was because of how often he had to refuel.
> Someone has already pointed out this would be even worse in the Bugatti. :P
Why would it be worse in the Bugatti? The Bugatti has nearly twice the
fuel capacity of the Mustang.
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