[08x01] May 7th, 2006 - Page 2

Kebab gud · April 28th, 2006, 05:40 AM

to quote mr koenigsegg himself (and translate)
"the Veyron may be faster i admit, but the CCR will still blitz it on the track"
now the CCX is a further refined CCR (engine, suspension, tranny aerodynamic mods)
so i guess a new lap time record (the CCR did match the CGT on the ring, and the CGT was almost from stock sett ut på do lap times on the ring.. the CCR had only been there once before images/smilies/tongue.gif

)

BerserkerCatSplat · April 28th, 2006, 06:13 AM

The wait is going to kill me. images/smilies/wacko.gif

Chupacabras · April 28th, 2006, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BerserkerCatSplat

The wait is going to kill me. images/smilies/wacko.gif

I know eh?

At least I have series 2 of QI, and the upcoming new pearl jam to keep my excitement at bay images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

triumph · April 28th, 2006, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Richard Hammond races a jet powered canoe

I was surfing on the net to found some pics of a jet powered canoe and it's in fact a kayak (small difference still ) .
all is explained here (it's a french forum but with pics and an english translation)

http://www.eauxvives.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12956

the guy wrote

Quote:

Hi Everyone,

My apologies for not having been in contact recently. The Jet Kayak project has been moving at such a pace that I have only managed to be in the UK for about three weeks since December and thus my updates have been a bit lacking.

I flew back from New Zealand last week after a 3 week shoot out there racing Jet Boats in the home of the original hydro-jet engine - those guys just couldn't believe the current incarnation... The world's 1st jet-powered kayak!! It proved an excellent testing ground for the Jet Kayak on rivers with fantastic winding narrow canyons, excellent rapids and no speed limits! I have attached some pictures from the Waimakariri River near Christchurch on the South Island. It was like kayaking in fast-forward and opened up a whole new sport of "1st ascents" of whitewater rivers - like nothing anyone had ever seen before.

As I write this email, the Jet Kayak is on its way to Reykjavik in Iceland where I will meet it tomorrow to film a section of the BBC's Top Gear TV show over the next week. This is the world's most popular motoring show - being aired in 40 different countries and to around
1/4 billion viewers I am told. After this I have 2 episodes of the Jack Osbourne Show to record (one back in NZ) and a new Guinness World Record to set in central London in June and then I'm hoping I can rest (for a while)...

Anyway, I hope you like the pics, and thank you for all your support.

Shaun.

ICELAND once again!
It could be tough for Hammster , he'll have to choose his car with attention.
images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

EDIT: the official website with vids from the guy who created the jet kayak
http://www.orcamedia.co.uk/orca/jetkayak/

haz · April 28th, 2006, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buba

Quote:

Originally Posted by haz

I think its time to change your avatar images/smilies/wink.gif

If you would look a bit closer, I have changed it recently, and it already is the CCX...

@Kebab gud: Where did you read that they brought a CCX to the UK? For testing purposes? Or for a customer? The last thing I heard from them was the SportAuto Supertest (a mag that takes cars to the Ring and another track to really put it trough some serious stuff... http://www.koenigsegg.com/news/artic...=131&type=news)

ah, I see

haz

VariEze · April 28th, 2006, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by triumph

Quote:

Richard Hammond races a jet powered canoe

I was surfing on the net to found some pics of a jet powered canoe and it's in fact a kayak (small difference still ) .
all is explained here (it's a french forum but with pics and an english translation)

http://www.eauxvives.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12956

the guy wrote

Quote:

Hi Everyone,

My apologies for not having been in contact recently. The Jet Kayak project has been moving at such a pace that I have only managed to be in the UK for about three weeks since December and thus my updates have been a bit lacking.

I flew back from New Zealand last week after a 3 week shoot out there racing Jet Boats in the home of the original hydro-jet engine - those guys just couldn't believe the current incarnation... The world's 1st jet-powered kayak!! It proved an excellent testing ground for the Jet Kayak on rivers with fantastic winding narrow canyons, excellent rapids and no speed limits! I have attached some pictures from the Waimakariri River near Christchurch on the South Island. It was like kayaking in fast-forward and opened up a whole new sport of "1st ascents" of whitewater rivers - like nothing anyone had ever seen before.

As I write this email, the Jet Kayak is on its way to Reykjavik in Iceland where I will meet it tomorrow to film a section of the BBC's Top Gear TV show over the next week. This is the world's most popular motoring show - being aired in 40 different countries and to around
1/4 billion viewers I am told. After this I have 2 episodes of the Jack Osbourne Show to record (one back in NZ) and a new Guinness World Record to set in central London in June and then I'm hoping I can rest (for a while)...

Anyway, I hope you like the pics, and thank you for all your support.

Shaun.

ICELAND once again!
It could be tough for Hammster , I'll have to choose his car with attention.
images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

EDIT: the official website with vids from the guy who created the jet kayak
http://www.orcamedia.co.uk/orca/jetkayak/

here is a pic of it in action http://img483.imageshack.us/my.php?i...and2apr7em.jpg

fbc · April 28th, 2006, 02:38 PM

^ That's just insane (and my kind of insane) - watch the short vid in the media gallery

flyingfridge · April 28th, 2006, 02:52 PM

STi Nut · April 28th, 2006, 04:45 PM

aren't we missing one now?

And the CCX images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

will be in the first episode of this seasone?(crossed finger images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

)

watto · April 29th, 2006, 01:26 AM

^STi Nut, I just noticed that you've misspelt your home town, hehehe. (It has now been corrected.)

Oh, and WOO HOO!!!!!!! The CCX, hotness! Can't wait for TG to return to my computer screen!!!!!

Viper007Bond · April 29th, 2006, 01:40 AM

I can't f'ing wait! images/smilies/biggrin.gif

STi Nut · April 29th, 2006, 01:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

I can't f'ing wait! images/smilies/biggrin.gif

x2

Prophet Of Noise · April 29th, 2006, 01:37 PM

Like everybody, I'm too looking forward to the CCX! I reckon the CCX will be SO close to the Pagani Zonda F round the track that it's gonna be 0.1 of a sec faster or slower. I am a Zonda F supporter and my housemate a die-hard CCX fan, we gonna have a derby in the house!

Evo7 · April 29th, 2006, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chupacabras

At least I have series 2 of QI, and the upcoming new pearl jam to keep my excitement at bay images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

New series of QI starts tonight by the way.

Can't sit still..................too exicted at new Top Gear images/smilies/shock.gif

Jezzabelle · April 29th, 2006, 05:24 PM

The Espace thing was inspired by what Jezza did in the H & H DVD, but the Top Gear version is probably one of THE funniest things I have ever seen. I literally cried laughing. It is worth waiting for. Watch out for the monkeys images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

!!

Katherine · April 29th, 2006, 06:26 PM

I am quivering with excitement!

whoster · April 29th, 2006, 07:42 PM

oh dear.

oooooh dear.

ONE MORE FRIGGIN WEEK

@#$#%%^^&O*(()

jetsetter · April 29th, 2006, 09:42 PM

Apparently Koenigsegg sources its engines from Ford and then upgrades them. Does anyone know the specific engine they get from Ford? Is it the 4.6?

bartboy9891 · April 30th, 2006, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jetsetter

Apparently Koenigsegg sources its engines from Ford and then upgrades them. Does anyone know the specific engine they get from Ford? Is it the 4.6?

its a 4.6L, i also recall that cosworth had something to do with it...

FATMOUSE · April 30th, 2006, 04:42 AM

I once heard something a Mustang V8 in relation to the Koenigsegg CC, but I might be wrong.

April 28th, 2006, 05:40 AM	#21
Kebab gud Joined: Apr 2nd, 2005 Last Online: June 29th, 2008 Location: somewhere in yupe Posts: 1,511 Rep Power: 0	to quote mr koenigsegg himself (and translate) "the Veyron may be faster i admit, but the CCR will still blitz it on the track" now the CCX is a further refined CCR (engine, suspension, tranny aerodynamic mods) so i guess a new lap time record (the CCR did match the CGT on the ring, and the CGT was almost from stock sett ut på do lap times on the ring.. the CCR had only been there once before ) __________________ The Kabab Hut: http://the-kebab.blogspot.com/ (working on a better layout)

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BerserkerCatSplat Hormone Induced Joined: Jun 21st, 2005 Last Online: 04:38 AM Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 5,922 Car: Pimpmobile Rep Power: 73	The wait is going to kill me. __________________ OSPhoto

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fbc Mantastic! Joined: Jan 8th, 2005 Last Online: 04:27 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 33 Posts: 10,644 Car: 2006 MY07 Astra SRi Turbo Rep Power: 82	^ That's just insane (and my kind of insane) - watch the short vid in the media gallery __________________ www.sniffpetrol.com

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STi Nut Joined: Dec 30th, 2005 Last Online: January 8th, 2009 Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 18 Posts: 955 Car: 2008 Toyota Yaris 1.3L 5 Door Auto Rep Power: 13	aren't we missing one now? And the CCX will be in the first episode of this seasone?(crossed finger )

April 29th, 2006, 01:26 AM	#30
watto Unloved and lacking a title Joined: Jun 13th, 2005 Last Online: 01:53 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 23 Posts: 5,414 Car: 1997 VW Golf MkIII CL, Giant OCR 3 Rep Power: 58	^STi Nut, I just noticed that you've misspelt your home town, hehehe. (It has now been corrected.) Oh, and WOO HOO!!!!!!! The CCX, hotness! Can't wait for TG to return to my computer screen!!!!!

April 29th, 2006, 01:40 AM	#31
Viper007Bond Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: 03:48 AM Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,088 Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237	I can't f'ing wait! __________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005

April 29th, 2006, 01:37 PM	#33
Prophet Of Noise Joined: Apr 28th, 2006 Last Online: December 8th, 2008 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Posts: 23 Car: 2008 White BMW 335i Coupe Rep Power: 0	Like everybody, I'm too looking forward to the CCX! I reckon the CCX will be SO close to the Pagani Zonda F round the track that it's gonna be 0.1 of a sec faster or slower. I am a Zonda F supporter and my housemate a die-hard CCX fan, we gonna have a derby in the house!

April 29th, 2006, 05:24 PM	#35
Jezzabelle Not A Dude Joined: Apr 12th, 2006 Last Online: November 9th, 2008 Posts: 210 Car: Aston Micra Rep Power: 12	The Espace thing was inspired by what Jezza did in the H & H DVD, but the Top Gear version is probably one of THE funniest things I have ever seen. I literally cried laughing. It is worth waiting for. Watch out for the monkeys !!

April 29th, 2006, 06:26 PM	#36
Katherine Not A Dude Joined: Apr 29th, 2006 Last Online: July 30th, 2008 Age: 31 Posts: 69 Rep Power: 0	I am quivering with excitement! __________________ I AM A WRITING GOD!!!!

April 29th, 2006, 07:42 PM	#37
whoster Joined: Jun 7th, 2005 Last Online: January 7th, 2009 Location: toyota city, CA Posts: 785 Car: Lexus GS400 Rep Power: 16	oh dear. oooooh dear. ONE MORE FRIGGIN WEEK @#$#%%^^&O(() __________________ Lexus GS400* Nikon D70s Flickr blog.

April 29th, 2006, 09:42 PM	#38
jetsetter Joined: Dec 11th, 2005 Last Online: 04:34 AM Location: Most Serene Republic of California Posts: 4,819 Car: 1992 Toyota Pickup Rep Power: 40	Apparently Koenigsegg sources its engines from Ford and then upgrades them. Does anyone know the specific engine they get from Ford? Is it the 4.6? __________________ "If there is anything to be gained by honesty, then we shall be honest; if we must dupe, then let us be scoundrels.” - Frederick the Great "This month's public bread is provided by the Capitoline Brotherhood of Millers. The Brotherhood uses only the finest flour: true Roman bread for true Romans." -Rome - Newsreader

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FATMOUSE Joined: Jun 30th, 2005 Last Online: 04:38 AM Location: NYC Posts: 3,104 Rep Power: 35	I once heard something a Mustang V8 in relation to the Koenigsegg CC, but I might be wrong. __________________ woohoo someone changed my sig

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