Tuscan stopping distance

Tuscan stopping distance

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charltm

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2,102 posts

271 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2002
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Does anyone have any info on stopping distances for the Tuscan (18" version), e.g. from 100mph to 0mph? Given the weight of the car, I would expect them to be a lot shorter than the average!

GreenV8s

30,479 posts

291 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2002
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Spect it will be similar to the V8S assuming the tyres are similar. In the dry on warm tyres it does 85 to zero in about 64.5 meters (yes I was sad enough to go back and measure the skid marks!). That's an average of 1.05G and extrapolating to 100 mph suggests a stopping distance of about 92m if everything goes right. I'd add about another 30m if things don't go quite to plan (locked wheels, slow getting up to full braking, cold tyres etc). Potentially double it in the rain, factor of ten in icy weather, dramatically more down hill and so on.