Because more power (back me up, Tim ‘The Toolman’ Taylor), this is a video of Matt Mikka of Warped Perception adding three jet engines to his Tesla Model S P85D to see how they affect the car’s 0 – 60MPH time. On his first run without the jet engines activated
This is a video of Destin from Youtube channel Smarter Every Day using a supersonic baseball cannon to blast various objects with baseballs at speeds up to 1,189MPH (for reference, the speed of sound is ~767MPH). The baseball just blasts right through the gong, and the mirror shot is particularly
This is a compilation video from Russian firefighter Artur Prosport of various ladder climbing races in which participants use a one-story ladder to reach a window, then reuse the ladder to reach the second story window, and once more to reach the third story and enter as quickly as possible.
This is a video of the folks from Youtube channel DragTimes setting a new 1/4 mile world record time by a production car, speeding a new Rimac Nevera all-electric quad motor car across the line in a blistering 8.582-seconds, reaching 167.51MPH in the process. For reference, I can’t even drive
This is a video of Brooks Weisblat of Youtube channel DragTimes speeding a ~$2-million windshield-less McLaren Elva around the Tail Of The Dragon (aka Deals Gap) along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. The road, bordering The Great Smokey Mountains National Park and nearby Little Tennessee River, is famous for packing
This is a video of John Reynolds recording the reactions of unknowing riders when he hits the gas in his 517-horsepower 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle (about 11-times the horsepower of a stock 1973 Beetle). John calls the car the VW Supersleeper, because it looks as much like a typical underpowered
This is a video of a ~$3-million Bugatti Chiron attempting to drag race one of Red Bull’s 2011 RB7 Formula 1 cars. Sure the Bugatti costs $3-million, but the Formula 1 car is one of four built for the 2011 race season with a total budget of $250-million, so it’s
Because the need for speed is a real addiction my mechanic charges me to treat, this is a video about the drag racing turbo longtail Thai riverboats along the Cobra Canal in Bangkok. The boats, which feature large modified car engines, can produce 500+ horsepower and reach speeds over 70MPH.