Was it technically possible? Sure it was. Was it done? No, it wasn't, as you researched.
From the looks of it, you're playing the game on Easy mode, which means you're unlocking W engines and 12 cylinders quite a bit early. In the real world, W engines were used in the mid 1900s on motorcycles. So W3's. W12 weren't used until WW1. This 1917 W12 produced 450hp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Lion . They eventually got the same engine design up to 1350 by 1930.
So the problem isn't that the game is unrealistic. You're just playing in too easy of a game mode and min/maxing stats. If you were to play on Normal or Hard mode, it will take you much more time to unlock advance techs, thus causing you to have to make large displacement engines like the aforementioned Blitzen Benz, whose 21L engine was an inline 4. That would then increase the weight of the vehicle, thus making it not as fast, but still pretty fast.
Your top speed is roughly in line with the Blue Bird, which uses the Napier Lion engine I linked. As you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed...-driven.29
Your weight is low, because it's early game years. Again you're unlocking technology too fast, most likely due to your game settings.
As for beating your CLA 250, the standing KM time of the Blitzen Benz is 31.326 seconds. I can't find the data for the CLA, but a Bugatti Veyron does it in 18 seconds. C7 Corvette does it in 26.4 seconds... So it is pretty safe to say a 1909 super car can beat your 105 year newer car in acceleration and top speed.
Acceleration and Top speed has always been mostly math problems in increasing HP and decreasing drag for many years. Your car has probably the same amount of horse power, less drag, but greater surface area and weight. So performance wise, it'd be about the same (excluding gear ratios). Handling is where the real difference is.
From the looks of it, you're playing the game on Easy mode, which means you're unlocking W engines and 12 cylinders quite a bit early. In the real world, W engines were used in the mid 1900s on motorcycles. So W3's. W12 weren't used until WW1. This 1917 W12 produced 450hp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Lion . They eventually got the same engine design up to 1350 by 1930.
So the problem isn't that the game is unrealistic. You're just playing in too easy of a game mode and min/maxing stats. If you were to play on Normal or Hard mode, it will take you much more time to unlock advance techs, thus causing you to have to make large displacement engines like the aforementioned Blitzen Benz, whose 21L engine was an inline 4. That would then increase the weight of the vehicle, thus making it not as fast, but still pretty fast.
Your top speed is roughly in line with the Blue Bird, which uses the Napier Lion engine I linked. As you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed...-driven.29
Your weight is low, because it's early game years. Again you're unlocking technology too fast, most likely due to your game settings.
As for beating your CLA 250, the standing KM time of the Blitzen Benz is 31.326 seconds. I can't find the data for the CLA, but a Bugatti Veyron does it in 18 seconds. C7 Corvette does it in 26.4 seconds... So it is pretty safe to say a 1909 super car can beat your 105 year newer car in acceleration and top speed.
Acceleration and Top speed has always been mostly math problems in increasing HP and decreasing drag for many years. Your car has probably the same amount of horse power, less drag, but greater surface area and weight. So performance wise, it'd be about the same (excluding gear ratios). Handling is where the real difference is.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski