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There are so many types of fast cars today. From racing to record-breaking, fast cars are designed according to their purpose.
Each type of fast car varies in one vital thing: the engine. The engines of fast cars have to be adapted specifically to the usage of the fast car.
What are different fast cars used for?
*Racing – probably the most recognizable use of fast cars, there are various sub-categories for racing fast cars, each category defining the type of power used.
*Record-breaking – many companies or private investors build fast cars specifically for the purpose of breaking existing speed records.
These fast cars are designed to be just that: fast. Nothing else matters so much, as long as the driver survives.
*Experimentation – concept fast cars are not new thing. These fast cars are designed to take advantage of existing technology and to take the term “fast car” to a whole new level.
Some people also design fast cars in order to test the limits of the human body or for various other experiments.
These fast cars tend to be extreme both in technology and in purpose.
There are various types of fuels and engines used in these cars however, each one suited specifically to a fast car. A crossover could be feasible however it would only cause the malfunction, if not the total destruction of the fast car.
Here are some of the engines used in fast cars:
1. Jet Turbine: probably one of the most popular and sought-after types of fast cars is one powered by a jet turbine.
Although mostly confined to movies, fast cars powered by a jet-turbine do exist. Some fast cars use the jet turbine in order to achieve record-breaking speeds.
However some fast cars, such as the Tumbler Batmobile (yes, it is a real car), use Jet turbines to give it a temporary boost to allow it to “jump” gaps.
Jet-powered fast cars are made to break barriers of speed. Jet turbines are used because they are comparatively safer than rockets.
There is some development, however, that seem to indicate that jet-turbines cannot only be used for fast cars, but can in fact be used in flying cars.
Fascinating, isn’t it?
2. Rockets – rockets have long been used for their capability for great speeds. Fast cars are sometimes equipped with rockets for a one-use only burst of speed.
Although mostly replaced by jet turbines, some fast cars still use rockets to gain the speed they need to beat various records.
There are, however some fast cars that only use a rocket to get at a specific rate of acceleration, after which the rocket burns out and a jet engine takes over.
The most recent use for a rocket in a land vehicle, however, was not on a fast car, but on an extremely fast train.
The prototype rocket-train had to travel in a helium atmosphere due to the fact that an oxygen atmosphere would be too dense for the velocity the train intended to achieve.
3. Gasoline engines – not all fast cars have to be powered by specialized engines. Some fast cars are considered fast cars because they can attain a speed unmatched by cars using practically the same fuel.
The key to these fast cars is the engine itself. People design the engine to be at its most efficient. The engine itself utilizes the fuel to gain the most speed and the advantage over other cars within its class.
Is it fast? You bet.
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