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    Volvo 940 Outruns Yamaha R1 to 190MPH

    As per the title...

    Arguing is pointless....she may not be right but she's never wrong

    Tell her a remap is just having your satnav updated.....

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    Still more fettling needed,
    will it never end?
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    awesome, that Volvo must have monster power. BTW I know which I'd rather be in control of at that speed, and it isn't the crouch rocket.

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    it has a corvette engine

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    The bike wasn't trying.

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    a 19t just isn't laggy enough
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    Quote Originally Posted by y2blade View Post
    The bike wasn't trying.
    you can see the revs holding back in places

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    That's an oldie, there is a place in brum that puts those engines in BMW Z4 and RX7s upto 1000 bhp with turbos :-)

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    isnt that the volvette ?
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    great vid........


    it made me recall this one i saw recently from Ghostrider..... in this you can see he's seriously blatting that bike & could overtake at will, but this Z3 coupe & driver are summink else!!


    check it out...
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    Wow! thats a monster!

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    Although i love bikes and have had loads it appears towards the end of the vid the R1 hit around 184mph which would be its limit, from what i could see the volvo was still opening up a gap


 

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