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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article <52e33d37$0$52743$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net   
   says...   
   >   
   > On 1/23/2014 8:17 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   > >   
   > At traveling at twice the speed would have a quarter of the mileage, so   
   > would have to refuel twice as often.   
      
   The Veyron is not capable of "twice the speed" of a GT500.  In any case   
   I don't think that Clarkson was driving flat out for any significant   
   length of time on that trip.   
      
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