highest reving daily car

[slipstream 1985]

apart from bike engined cars whats the highest reving car you could buy on say budgets of £5000, £20000 and supercar level.

integra type R shouts at me at the budget end but are there other gems out there? I quite fancy chopping the z3 in for a rev monster.

[Ved]

S2000?
M3?
RS4?

[SonicShadow]

Something with a bike engine.

They say that every zoo is a petting zoo if you aren't a wimp - the same thing applies to daily driving cars

[Boobonman]

Nova 1.2 saloon, '88 vintage. Years ago at college I saw with my own eyes one hit an indicated 75 in second gear, probably what led on to all this vtec malarkey.

[Ivorbrae]

I picked up an S2000 last may for just over £4,000.00... Spins up to 9,000rpm. I don't think there's much out there higher than that short of a 458 or a bike.

Got it out for the first of the season in the last week... god I love it.

[slipstream 1985]

SonicShadow said:

Something with a bike engine.

They say that every zoo is a petting zoo if you aren't a wimp - the same thing applies to daily driving cars

did you even read my post?


not keen on the s2000, its too long geared to be fun. drove a mates and was not impressed.

[digger the goat]

Boobonman said:

Nova 1.2 saloon, '88 vintage. Years ago at college I saw with my own eyes one hit an indicated 75 in second gear, probably what led on to all this vtec malarkey.

Thank goodness someone else has done it !!
My '88 Astra estate would pull 72 in second, 95 in third !!

Anyhow, the Mazda Rx8 redline is 9400. pick 'em up for less than a grand too !!

[andy-xr]

I'd have thought a rotary engine would be capable of going higher, other than like an old F1 car, but getting either to be reliable enough would be a struggle

[motorhole]

Zcars mini with a Hayabusa engine.

[davepoth]

The old shape Suzuki swift GTi 1.3 had a redline north of 8,000...

[BFG TERRANO]

Boobonman said:

Nova 1.2 saloon, '88 vintage. Years ago at college I saw with my own eyes one hit an indicated 75 in second gear, probably what led on to all this vtec malarkey.

Hit 70 in 2nd in a hired astra once!

[g3org3y]

Suzuki Alto.


Torque? Where we're going, we don't need torque.

Redline all the way from 6.5k to 10k!

[Benbay001]

RX8?

[J4CKO]

Usually anything driven by very old guys.

[HumbleJim]

g3org3y said:

Suzuki Alto.


Torque? Where we're going, we don't need torque.

Redline all the way from 6.5k to 10k!

Aren't you supposed to stop @ the redline?

[McWigglebum4th]

You aren't going to like the answer

not even vaguely

not one tiny weeny bit

http://leaf.nissan.co.za/download/Leaf%20Brochure_...

Max rpm 10500

[anonymous-user]

HumbleJim said:

Aren't you supposed to stop @ the redline?

Not when it's a hire car

[ian2144]

Daihatsu Charade GTti 12 valve turbo 998cc, rev limiter was set at 8,300 if memory serve

[EricE]

Honda S800 if you are a small to average sized driver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViAM7AHheJg

[Ivorbrae]

Solid consumer suggestions there! (Though i'd love a shot in an S800 over a twisty B road.)

I think you're best bet would probably be an E46 M3. Though if you are truly chasing the high revs - I'd say a TypeR VTEC yo... Integra maybe?