Surprisingly quick cars

[300bhp/ton]

Fastdruid said:

My wife was surprised a few months back that a BMW Mini level pegged her in a TL GP and ended up she had to drop back and give way as she needed the same lane. Saw it was an 'S Works' which when she looked it up later realised is also a ~6s 0-60 car.

So what car was your wife driving??

[T1berious]

300bhp/ton said:

Fastdruid said:

My wife was surprised a few months back that a BMW Mini level pegged her in a TL GP and ended up she had to drop back and give way as she needed the same lane. Saw it was an 'S Works' which when she looked it up later realised is also a ~6s 0-60 car.

So what car was your wife driving??

+1

[C.A.R.]

Bloody new Ford KA, zipping around 40mph limit dual-carriageways and this thing with it's ridiculous looking stripe and colour scheme probably favoured by the TOWIE crew was following me way too closely. Usual trick is to accelerate off a roundabout quicker than you normally would, but this thing could not be evaded. Pulled over when the left lane was clear and let this thing blast off beyond the speed limit, nutter!

[RoverP6B]

Another one was my old Rover - nowhere near the throttle response of the BMW but 184bhp and 210ft lbs in a car weighing 1300kg was quite enough for fairly rapid progress. The book acceleration figures seemed quite conservative. Mine did 0-60 in 9 seconds and 0-100 in about twenty. It would cruise all day at 120mph and still the clock would be the loudest sound in the cabin. That V8 was so smooth - yet it would sound suitably purposeful under acceleration. Never uncivilised - at least not until the exhaust fell off at about 7am one Sunday, at which point I may have inadvertently woken up half of Surrey...

[MagnaJeep]

Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.9lx

[LuS1fer]

A Nissan Leaf.

He was driving it with no eye to economy, obviously, but I was surprised how hard I had to press my Mk 6 Fiesta ST to keep pace from a standing start where, I am sure, electric cars excel.

[fozluvscars]

LuS1fer said:

A Nissan Leaf.

He was driving it with no eye to economy, obviously, but I was surprised how hard I had to press my Mk 6 Fiesta ST to keep pace from a standing start where, I am sure, electric cars excel.

they probably had to park up round the corner and charge it for 8hrs after though!

[Fastdruid]

300bhp/ton said:

Fastdruid said:

My wife was surprised a few months back that a BMW Mini level pegged her in a TL GP and ended up she had to drop back and give way as she needed the same lane. Saw it was an 'S Works' which when she looked it up later realised is also a ~6s 0-60 car.

So what car was your wife driving??

Mazda 6 MPS, 6.4s claimed 0-60 so reasonably quick and just wasn't expecting a Mini to be anywhere near as quick.

[XJR500bhp]

xRIEx said:

OK. So what?

This sites becoming populated by people who click on a topic just to have their 2pence worth's even if its totally irrelevant. You are one of them, this site is so quickly becoming populated by dheads not pistonheads

[BS75]

C.A.R. said:

Bloody new Ford KA, zipping around 40mph limit dual-carriageways and this thing with it's ridiculous looking stripe and colour scheme probably favoured by the TOWIE crew was following me way too closely. Usual trick is to accelerate off a roundabout quicker than you normally would, but this thing could not be evaded. Pulled over when the left lane was clear and let this thing blast off beyond the speed limit, nutter!

I don't know if the current Ka shares an engine but a couple of years ago I had to hire a car for a day and got a brand new (current shape) Fiesta Zetec S diesel.

It was ridiculously good fun, and quicker than I expected it to be

[aarondbs]

It wasn't me who was surprised but a colleague borrowed my Amarok to go to Workington and came back and said it shifted, and asked what engine was in it.... He couldn't believe it was a 2.0 Diseasel...... Mind you when I got back into it I saw that his MPG had been 24..

Its not quick by any measure... but it is probably quicker than he was expecting it to be... which is surely the OP's point

[Harry Flashman]

skyrover said:

A Defender can keep up with traffic surprisingly well by a committed (read lunatic) driver down country lanes.

Of course foot wide tyres can grip pretty well through corners.

Indeed. My (admittedly modified) Defender is actually pretty quick if you keep in in the right rev range with the larger turbo whistling (off boost it's pathetic, and has hilarious turbo lag), and the tyres/Bilstein suspension and heavy, low centre of gravity (surprising - but ally body over iron ladder chassis) makes it surprisingly good (or rather, not awful) in the bends, if you can ignore the numb and remote steering and feelings of utter terror.

[xuy]

Astra Vans

[pimpchez]

Everything with a 20d on the back until i hit 6200rpm and they have to change gear

[P-Jay]

Ford Focus RS Mk2, got into a childish traffic light GP with one a few years ago, I was in 3rd by the time I got away.

I was on a CBR at the time.

[Jazoli]

P-Jay said:

Ford Focus RS Mk2, got into a childish traffic light GP with one a few years ago, I was in 3rd by the time I got away.

I was on a CBR at the time.

What a CBR125?

Getting a good launch on a bike is difficult at times

[RoverP6B]

Good luck to anyone who takes on this Stuttgart taxi with anything less than a McLaren 12C or 997 Turbo (or a Hayabusa type superbike): http://fastestlaps.com/cars/brabus_73_v12_w124.htm...

[Alex]

XJR500bhp said:

Audi TT 2.0TFSI

There were a handful of new TTs at the 'Ring last time I was there in May. Not sure if they were 2.0TFSIs or 2.5RSs, but I struggled to keep up in my Impreza P1.

[andy-xr]

I was done over slightly, as in, a bit, or, I let it go...by a 172 Clio. He was a bit more dedicated than me in changing up towards the limiter and lighter weight made for easier cornering at the roundabout we came to. I was in a 3.0 manual X Type

[fjord]

Hyundai i30. With the 1.6d engine, it puts my e46 320d to shame.