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Tuatara! play classic songs by the Clash, the Beach Boys, the Ramones, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and even Don Ho in their energetic live set. In 2018 Tuatara! released their debut 9-song CD entitled ...
Built entirely from the ground up, the Tuatara uses a twin-turbocharged 5.9-liter flat-plane crank V-8 that makes an absolutely mind-boggling 1,350 horsepower on pump fuel or 1,750 on ethanol.
The SSC Tuatara beat the world's fastest car record for real this time The hypercar nailed an average 282.9 mph (455.3 km/h) — and that's without it tapping all available horsepower, too Alex Reid ...
In comparison, human and chimpanzee mitochondrial genomes differ by 8.9 percent. “The tuatara’s arrangement of genes is unlike any other vertebrate,” Mulcahy says.
The Tuatara is named after a lizard from New Zealand, which got its name from a Māori word for “peaks on the back.” The Tuatara’s most recent run could already count as a record.
SSC just completed a third attempt at taking the record for the fastest production car in the world. The first attempt was marred by controversy after ...
With a drag coefficient of 0.279 – which SSC claims is the best in the hypercar class – and a bespoke 5.9-litre twin-turbo flat-plane V8 engine making 1,750 horsepower when fed E85 fuel; and ...
During the 2017 Project For Awesome livestream, I promised I’d make a tuatara video if we hit our fundraising goal, and I’m a man of my word! Little did I know I’d get to meet a tuatara and ...
To smash the competition, the Tuatara will rely on a bespoke 5.9-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 developed by SSC. The engine has been dyno tested at 1,350 horsepower on pump gas and as much as 1,750 ...
And, as it turns out, even faster. On October 10th, the SSC Tuatara — a hypercar that’ll be limited to 100 units with a base price of $1,625,000 and a fully-loaded price around two million bucks — ...
Even though tuatara generally live a long, slow life, it turns out their sperm are surprisingly fast. Having fast swimmers may be an adaptation to aid male tuatara in their reproductive efforts.