dethkarz

(Possible Spoilers in this comment) I thought this was an excellent movie, definitely one of the best I've seen in theaters. Just a quick question about the Corvette ZR1 that the main villain drives, in the movie they say it has over 1000hp and the bad guy seems to be driving full throttle most of the time, I would think a car rated at 1000hp would be out of gas at full throttle within an hour? And the movie never showed him stopping for gas and he made it nearly to the Mexican border from Las Vegas. The Bugatti Veyron (a super car with over 1000hp as well) drains its fuel tank in just under 13 minutes at full throttle. I'm not ragging on the movie I thought it was fucking great. Just something I noticed because I like cars.

Yes a standard ZR-1 with 600hp gets 21 mpg on the highway, but EPA measures highway speeds generally from 0-60mph not 0-200 mph, a car will naturally use more fuel at 200mph than 60mph. A modified ZR-1 with 1000hp would require larger injectors for the fuel system and naturally use more gas so the EPA mpg rating may not apply. I loved the movie so I concluded that the trunk must double as an extra fuel tank which would probably contain enough fuel to get to the border.

I love that movie