mozzy

i class a car that pins you in the seat for more than 4 seconds in the top few gears to be a powerful car

Ad4m RST

Anything that's sub 5sec to 60 and still useable is quick IMO...easily 350/tonne.

Its Dave

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Hard to say as l have YUM

Reckon 500+bhp

danneth

250bhp per tonne is quick imo, next stage is fast

twoblacklines

around 400lb/ft = quick.

Red16

My Evo was sub 5 seconds 0-60mph, was very very useable but was nowhere near 350bhp/tonne!

pani_k

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Most Evos do 4.8 or something to 60mph as standard. That's why I believe even a Stage 1 Evo pushing 350-400bhp is properly serious enough. I don't care if people are used to 600bhp or even more stupid BHP, on the road, would there really be any situations when a genuine 400bhp/~400ft.lbs wouldn't be enough?

ROB7656

ferrari f40 lm......lol

m4tt274

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i think that its not just acceleration its cornering that makes a car feel quick. and go quick, its all about the driver, these guys that are all jerky and bad lines arent quick u need to be smooth. so fair enough horse power helps but i know people who are pub boasters with like 100+ more power than me that i can keep up with. ...

johnandhissaffy

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id say fast is where you giggle like a little girl in a car or when you need 2 plan for stopping

andyorion

I have driven alot of different cars and have been passenger in many more some of which have had some figures in terms of power outputs but I would say generally that

Quick is hot hatch performance ie CTR, VXR, standard RS's etc.

Rapid is Hypercar performance ie high end Ferrari's, Big Porsches, Big Lamborginis Bugatti Veyron etc.

Fast is somewhere in between those two catagories eg Evo's, BMW's M range, Audi's RS range and of course Mercedes AMG range to name a few.

Obviously a 400bhp Cosworth would be in the fast car catagory but when I mention the cars above I talk about cars in standard as the manufacturer intended states of tune.

The fastest car I have had the pleasure of being passenger in would be MadRussels Volvo 850 T-5R and tbh the handling of it impressed me just as much which is saying something for a FWD car with as much power as it has. I am sure it would upset alot of the cars in the high end of what I would class as fast so to me that makes it very fast

The fastest car I have driven would probably be a Mitsubishi Evolution VIII FQ-400 that was fast also but not as fast as the Volvo but still a very fast car none the less and certainly didn't disappoint.

Umi

E55 AMG

alic100

lol i had a citreon ax(dinni laugh)running webber alpha injection among a few other things that done the quarter in 13s...fookin rapido lol...never beat in a race...think it was 170@wheels or round about..

Jamsy

Had an 850 mini once but done an engine swap to a 1.1 took the air filter clean off her an fettled wi the timing.... by christ she could boogie!

Northern Bloke

I thought my car was quick until I went out with Mr Gallacher in his Focus - fuck me, that is quick

BobbyG

any car that goes this quick i'd say was fast:

http://www.letstorquebhp.com/calculator.asp

Power at Flywheel (BHP) : 700Weight without Driver (KG) : 712Power to Weight Ratio (BHP Per Ton) : 998.930 - 60 (Secs) : 2.500 - 100 (Secs) : 5.4960 - 100 (Secs) : 2.99Quarter Mile (Secs) : 10.61Terminal Speed (MPH) : 140.35Drag Strip Quarter Mile (Secs) : 10.21Drag Strip Terminal Speed (MPH) : 145.43

Charlie Chalk

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My Pulsar was rapid, beat pretty much anything I went against.

274bhp 236lbft

Rod-Tarry

My criteria for a brutally fast car.

0-100mph sub 7
0-150mph sub 13
0-180mph sub 18
0-200mph sub 25

On the road my Proton is more than ample.

alistairolsen

I consider 120bhp a tonne as the bare minimum for day to day driving to be bearable.

150-200bhp a tonne is a fun everyday car

To be special, as a weekend toy, then 300bhp/tonne would probably do me.

Im hoping to be properly scared when I finish the kit car with circa 650bhp/tonne

hicost

I think mines quite rapid, puts out just under 470bhp and around 830kilos.

Puts you in the seats all the way to 100mph.

timrud

Anything that pulls 110+ on the 1/4 is going to give most things on the road a good play

crazycage

pulling a 110mph+ on the 1/4 is easy and most modified cars can do that but not manny put the power down well and run a good time.

RC4

little brother has just bought an e60 m5 and it does not hang about,very ,very quick car

Pob

I'm confused.com

crazycage

about what ?? lol

RWD_cossie_wil

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Saves me typing it out, in numbers 0-100 in less than 10 secs is a "quick" car, 7secs is fucking fast, anything less than that is silly Think my Duke 996 bike does it in around 6/7 secs and that feels awesome, but you get more of a sensation of speed on a bike

Makes me laugh when people say Civic type R's etc or diesels are quick cars

Charlie Chalk

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If thats the fastest car they drove then it would be.

madmack99

200+ for me

RWD_cossie_wil

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There is elapsed time, ie the start to the finish of the 1/4 mile.

Then you get split times, ie Start of the 1/4 to 60ft, 120ft , 1/8th mile etc etc.....

Terminal speed is the speed of the car as you pass over the finishing line.

Effectively you could have a 600BHP rear drive cossie that spins the wheels all the way to fourth gear, then gets traction in fourth and has a massive spike of acceleration. The 1/4 mile time might be 13 secs, with a terminal speed of 140Mph.... But that does not take into account the acceleration, as the 1st 3 gears were just wheelspin.

Then take a 350BHP 4x4 car, that launches hard, with no wheelspin . The 1/4 mile time could be 12.5 secs, but with a lower TERMINAL speed of 125 mph. The car runs a quicker 1/4 mile time due to better traction and being able to use all of it's power, if that makes sense?

Glenn_

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I would say a 400bhp cossie is fast.

timrud

Generally you will find if you fluff your launch, your time will go down but really your speed stays about the same.

It's a good indicator of power to weight. I always look at the speed in comparison to the time.

Steven_RW

My m3 with 380 hp at the wheels (bout 415 fly) is quite fast. It just seems to pull really strong every one of the seven gears. A real horizon chaser as we would have said back in the day.

RW

Lambchop

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Have you had it on the rollers?

fez2i16v

i went in a caterham 7 thingy with a calibra turbo donkey in it it was about 280 bhp ish and that was pretty brutal.but theres no roof and it started raining so we had to take it in.lolll