Thursday, April 30, 2020

A McLaren sports car versus an F-35?


I was amused to discover this video clip from the British TV program Top Gear.  In it, a McLaren Speedtail sports car is pitted against one of Britain's STOVL F-35B strike aircraft.  It's a lot of fun.





Boys and their toys indeed . . .




Peter

8 comments:

Sam L. said...

Sehr KUHL!!

Silent Draco said...

Fabulous! Someone in the BBC must want their ratings boosted by getting the nasty warmongers, er, brave zhirs, to sped a buncha pounds and a flight hour on free advertising for the RAF.

Marty said...

One day out for a ride on my BMW K1200RS - 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds. Not the fastest bike around but it’s got no flies on it.

I pulled up to a 4-way stop and a guy in a McLaren turned right in front of me. I’d never seen one IRL before and I saw his exhaust blow as he hit the throttle. So, WTH, I rolled the throttle, too.

Not. Even. Close.

I went home and looked up the time on that model McLaren. 2.9 seconds.

Having said that, my bike cost about 1/50th of the McLaren.

libertyman said...

Were they speaking English? What kind of accents were those? I got about 40% comprehension.
Anyway a lot of fun and good PR for the RAF.

capt fast said...

it wasn't a drag race. it was a time to climb to five thousand meters race.

Quartz said...

Top Gear have done this sort of thing before, with a Typhoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA

Ritchie said...

Right then. Now lets do vertical.

Randy said...

Reminds me of an old Lee Majors movie, "The Last Chase". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnuVxQG6e9Q