Saaamon

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What do you all consider a quick car to be? I know alot of people who have perforamce/modifed cars, C20XE nova's, RS turbo's, VAG 1.8t's, Evo's etc and they all say thier car is really quick... A few weeks ago a friend let me drive his modified Audi RS6, this had at the time around 580BHP and this is the only car i've driven/been in that i could honestly turn round and say is "fast".

What power to weight ratio does a car have to have before it can be considered "quick"?

Views please.

carfixz

new C63AMG is a bit nippy

cossie4i+

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Mines quick , well i think it is

Steve

Robs Frst

Agree the C63 Amg is a animal

turboRS

SL55 AMG's dont hang about neither!

jammerrs

well not having ever drove a car, i found a tuned golf gti and fieasta st quick.
mainly because of how the people drove them and the noise of the st



anyone wana take me in a really quick car?

Mike C

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Anything over 500bhp/tonne

Rod-Tarry

Around 500bhp/ton a car starts to feel brutal. Beyond that is how high a speed you want it to continue feeling brutal.

dovboy

my sierra was around 500bhp and i still think a 16v astra feels "quick".

for all out brutality it was kev sharps escos.

Elwood

I'd say for road use, anything around the 300 bhp mark, with a suitable torque figure to match (based on personal preference).

I'd imagine that something like the new TT-RS would be very swift across country, as would it's peers.

Psycho Warren

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Id say anything much over 350bhp with torque to match will be fast. Anything much below that wont necessarily have any higher peak acceleration than say a 200bhp car, just be able to keep accelerating like that much longer. eg my car at 20psi doesnt accelerate too hard IMO, and ive had similar wieght 200bhp cars that accelerate just as hard at thier peak. key difference is my car will accelerate like that over a much longer time than just a short peak of acceleration.

m4tt274

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in my opinion about 280 300 bhp is about good for the road.
but talkin acceleration. anything under 16seconds is quick anything under 14 seconds is very fast and sub 12s is stupidly fast. on the road anyway.

my RX7 *was* about 470bph and it was rediculously quick, infact verging unusable and then it blew up. my cossy about 300 and its perfect for the road, use it daily. gunna re build the rx7 to about 320bhp

that my opinion anyway

matts1

I think it also comes down to the car, a big luxury car can be powerful and fast but not feel it, where as a small tin pot running half the power can feel like you flying.

burnzy

thrust 2 is quick

dunno but the fastest thing i'v been in is my mates 350ish bhp 200sx and that just kept pulling like a train all the way across the speedo , being rebuilt to around 500bhp so would be shocked to see what it'll be like then, i'm not the best of passengers though so will probably clean my seat after

also anything super light like some of the big powered westfields would feel quick i reckon.

m4tt274

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a mk1 fiesta with 100bhp is as quick as a sierra with 200

Benni

Are you sure? Musn't weigh much. I think 250+ is quick.

Benni.

XRT_si

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Always made me laugh when you used to red in ebay/autotrader adverts for Fiesta XR2i's, and they'd say 'quick car'. Clearly never been in quick car then!
A lot of people I know say standard XE Novas/Corsas are quick...then I had one and soon got bored.

Depends totally on what your used to really, anything that runs sub 13 second quarters is starting to really go, as that will see off 90% of cars you'd meet on the road normally.

roro22

I thought an e46 m3 was quick but I've not been out in many proper fast cars.
A mate has a "450" horse supra that is quick but doesn't feel brutal. I like my golf but its already boring, needs a charger of some sort to be brutal

Mk1-stu

i thought my bro's 200hp 328 was quick till i went out with Rs Cosworth 1 in the saphy - fuck me did that car give me the turbo itch.. i have no idea what the spec of it is, but it's a beast !!

Pete frst

0-60 in under severn seconds is a quick car.....
anything quicker is in a different league..........fooking quick......lol

cossyking

ya right mate my mates got 1 very quick car

mechanic28

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you know john then?

cossyking

0-60 in under 3 secs is a quick car thats my opinion.

GAZ-MAN

my pal bought a Bmw 535d, got it re mapped, exhaust system n i thought that was fast, sit at 100 (on private track ofcourse) deck it n it would punch u into the seat, my thoughts anyways, my dad has a jaguar xjr 55 plate, thats pretty rapid too for a big motor

mechanic28

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500 plus in a rwd cossie with a t4 aint to slow

Smiggy

Agreed,

The fastest feeling car I have ever been in was an Uno Turbo. This thing was like lightning. Obviously not as fast as it felt, but when you're hurtling along back roads at some crazy speeds with just a few mm of Italian tin under your backside it felt like the quickest thing on the planet.

Was also the scariest car I've ever owned. Wish I still had it, our time together was too brief...

Danny @ Enhanced Performance

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0 60 in a 2wd is no use 0 100 is where its at...you wont get many rwd road cars doing 0 60 in under 3 secs..big bhp coosies 0 60 is in the 4s but 0 100 should be 7s or less..thats a fucking quick car!!

andy escos

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my escorts over 500bhp fastest thing ive been in by a long shot my boss has a db9 lovely car but not as quick as mine though seemed quiet mild

pacwest

I have a rule of 3's to determine a fast car.

300 brake (or more)
3000 pounds (or less)
3 doors

Meet these three and you have my attention.

PT

so a 900bhp evo isnt quick to you as it has 4 doors lol

pacwest

Don't think so literally. The MP4-24 has zero doors and it's quick.

My jag has almost 300 brake. 4 doors. My saff has a 280 chip. 4 doors.

My 3 door has much more power than that. It gets my attention.

Attention is not fast.

Rs Cosworth 1

Spec mate been RWD harvey gibb's and 9k later

Nah serious the engine doesnt run as much boost as so the engine can pick up the pace and then turbo leave's alot of 2wd behind with the way it go's TBH ;D

Will see u sat in it buddy :P

Chip

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300bhp per tonne at the wheels.

johnandhissaffy

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nissan pulsars are quick for wot they are and also them little 1.3 toyota starlets aswell

rst deany

drove a brand new r34 with 450bhp in 2000 and thought that was quick untill i went out in a r33 last year with 700 and that was fucking quick.

foreigneRS

anything that can compete with a litre sportsbike is quick

mrjenrst

I was gonna say that, keep up with a 1000cc and its fooking quick car

mozzy

i have been in a pulsar gtir running 290 bhp and that ate cars with almost twice the power. Its all down to power to ratio. A stripped out clio 182 happily keeps up with a 300 cosworth with the right driver obviously

crazycage

im with you there anything that runs sub 13s is not only fast can put the power down some what better than most.

bigryrs

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My mk1 golf was quick! it was running a turbocharged 2.8 vr6 and easily the fastest car ive driven!!