Can a car go 140 mph?

Although cars with high-horsepower engines can come close to the top speedometer speeds, most are limited by engine control computers. That's because the tires can overheat and fail at higher speeds. Tires now common on mainstream cars often can't go above 130 mph or they could fail.

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2024-02-04 01:49:44

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Can a car go 300 mph?
Not only that, but the Chiron Super Sport 300+ also became the first car to break 300 miles per hour on the track. The final record was 304.773 mph with racing driver Andy Wallace at the wheel on Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany. If 300+ mph seems hard to comprehend, you don't lack imagination.
2024-02-14 14:06:33

Has a car gone 400 mph?
In 1960 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, Mickey Thompson reached an unprecedented speed of 406.6 mph in a four-engine streamliner he called Challenger 1.
2024-01-19 20:35:14

Is a truck stronger than a car?
The powerful engines of trucks generate horsepower and torque incomparably higher than cars. Such numbers would also reflect the vehicle's overall performance and towing capacity. Accelerating the truck would be easier when hauling heavier loads.
2023-04-04 23:52:18

Is driving a car healthy?
But there is a whole underlayer of health risks of driving that many of us don't think about at all. These risks include things such as air pollution, noise pollution, as well as increases in anxiety, stress, and blood pressure levels, and chronic lower back and/or knee pain.
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