Like a bull in a china shop

I ain’t no big car nut (but the reverse could apply), and I stopped watching Big C on G4 a long while ago. So, while I do know the difference between nitrous and citrus, I don’t really care enough to stay on top of the latest under the hood.

And then I see Redline. A movie full of misled product endorsements, bad acting, terrible screenplay and just a whole load of blah.

A few quickly-fading memories from the movie:

• One can go from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in an hour and forty-five minutes, if one is driving the right kind of souped-up sports car, has night-vision googles, and turns off all exterior lights when one drives by a cop car.

• A nitrous release on any exotic sportscar / supercar makes it flip over, if that car is already at top speed.

• Exotics crash without airbag deployment

• It takes just $8,000 to “soup up” a Ford GT.

• If you’re in a limo that backs out of a parking space near an illegal race, the cops won’t chase you

• Ferrari Enzos lose races against stock exotics.

• The Koenigsegg CCX is the fastest road car in the world / the US.

• When motorcycle cops have their bikes topple over, they run scared.

• when a drug / counterfeiter / gang lord “loses everything”, he does NOT shoot the person responsible

• When a drug / counterfeiter / gang lord “loses everything”, he waits till he gets picked up by another drug /….lord, presumably to be led to a painful ending

• One can start a fight in any Las Vegas nightclub and not have ten really big bouncers pound you silly and throw you out on the pavement

The subject of the “fastest street-legal car in the world” is met with a lot of debate. All the Wikipedia has on the CCX is an “honorable mention” on its list of “automotive superlatives”, and that’s never a good thing.

It also says that the Koenigsegg CCX is an eight-cylinder, that the Ferrari Enzo runs twelve, and that the Bugatti Veyron pretty much blows away the competition. For those who are really interested, this is where the Veyron proved itself.

Even if one were to compare tech specs on both cars, the Veyron [PDF] outdoes the CCX. So there.