On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:14:28 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>
>"Ron" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:06:16 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:
>>
>>>In article >, Andy > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Breakfast bliss/depression?
>>>>
>>>> Fake eggs on fake buttered toast/Philadelphia 2009 auto show (opens
>>>> today).
>>>>
>>>> I need a V-10 like I need another hole in my head!
>>>>
>>>> You?
>>>
>>>Yeah, go for it, Andy!
>>>
>>>You coulda had a V8? Nah, get a V12!
>>
>> If you really want to go, get a W12 Bugatti Veyron
>>
>> See: http://www.expat-village.com/article_2068.shtml
>>
>> (excerpt).....
>>
>> But what an amazing technical achievement this car is. Built around a
>> carbon-fibre body and using aluminium, magnesium and titanium in its
>> construction, it has a frontal cross-sectional area of 2.07 square
>> metres. Travelling at the top speed is like pushing two standard
>> sheets of plywood through the air at 253mph.
>
>How do you figure? A sheet of plywood is (4' x 8') 32 square feet or 2.9
>sq. meters. 2.07 sq. meters is 22.3 sq. ft.
>
>Of course if those sheets of plywood were laid flat they would go even
>faster.
>

Yeah, I wondered about that. I'm assuming that where that poster was
posting from was in a country where "standard sheets of plywood" are
not the same as in the U.S.A.

Or I could be completely wrong. :-)

Ron