What car - goes like a scalded cat? (That's you've been in)
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I had a passenger ride in a Caterham 7 620R on a Mission Motorsport event. Was absolutely brutal, I couldn't breath on the straights and it was sucking the helmet off my head. I think I saw 145mph on the speedo so I know its not the fastest thing in the world but I think the power to weight, proximity to the ground and lack of windscreen all heightened it
Fastest things I've been in are probably SLS AMG - mate was driving Merc lent it to him for his wedding... was quick but public roads so didn't really get to test it out! Gallardo... but that was on one of these experience days and you don't drive them more than about 5/10ths. Most powerful I've driven was a friends C63 507 edition. Didn't spank it out of respect and fear of bending it though.
Being on the back of my mates bike is probably the quickest acceleration on the road I've felt. Eye opener.
Being on the back of my mates bike is probably the quickest acceleration on the road I've felt. Eye opener.
battered said:
You win the internetz on this. That's just box-of-frogs stuff. Then again I have heard of people putting 2x litre bike engines in grass trackers with probably similar results.
Is there actually a spring anywhere in that suspension, or just a set of linkages and bushes?
Dampers aren't fitted there. It was SVA'able but it pretty much went straight to a new owner so I don't think it got put through in the end, just used for racing.Is there actually a spring anywhere in that suspension, or just a set of linkages and bushes?
Edited by PhillipM on Thursday 30th June 18:47
Hasbeen said:
The first time I drove this one, 
F1 Brabham Repco. It felt pretty quick. I had to get it straight before I'd give it full throttle. A couple of months later I was complaining it had no power.
It is all relative of course. Today I'm happy if I can get my 4.6L Triumph TR8 away from the traffic lights, without breaking traction, & attracting our heavy handed law.
Looks terrific fun, and you're right of course - as you get used to a car so you get used to the power delivery, hence most of the comments here are about cars people have driven once. I had a C6 Z06 and whilst it was bloody fast I got used to it. The sensation of acceleration is about torque and a non-linear power delivery - it had the first but not the second.F1 Brabham Repco. It felt pretty quick. I had to get it straight before I'd give it full throttle. A couple of months later I was complaining it had no power.
It is all relative of course. Today I'm happy if I can get my 4.6L Triumph TR8 away from the traffic lights, without breaking traction, & attracting our heavy handed law.
GTR for me but I got used to that as well.
WD39 said:
WD39 said:
WD39 said:
vtecyo said:
WD39 said:
My old Corsa SRi 1.8.
Never failed to surprise me. Ferocious acceleration, bags of torque.
That was in my boy racer days, now I get honked and flashed for observing speed limits.
How times change, but fond memories of 'Kevin'.
Is that a serious response?Never failed to surprise me. Ferocious acceleration, bags of torque.
That was in my boy racer days, now I get honked and flashed for observing speed limits.
How times change, but fond memories of 'Kevin'.
I once had a ride in a Chevrolet Corvette.
I felt the G force on acceleration.
Oliverrun said:
McLaren 650S. On an experience day so not exactly pushing hard, but still enough to get twitchy in third...
Having just stepped out of a 1.6 Focus it was eye-opening to say the least
I'm hurtling around the faster roads of Europe in one right now! You dare not put your foot down. Having just stepped out of a 1.6 Focus it was eye-opening to say the least
There is definitely an aclimatisation thing as you experience faster cars.
Most of the public think that their 70 bhp supermini is rapid, and it will be adequate in all motoring situations, the same people will not be able to comprehend anything aster than a 170 bhp diesel, they arent used to that shove.
I do wonder how some cope when they go to something properly quick having not done fast cars before, like Lottery winners, the ones that dont just buy a new Fiesta and go and get a McLaren, we know someone with one, she hates going in it as she finds the acceleration sickening and painful
I still find my CLS to be pretty vigorous, the 350Z was brisk but this feels a lot quicker, next one will be a CLS63 or XFR and even then, they get nowhere near proper, modern supercars or the loony track stuff.
I think the next step will be plenty for me, forever, you do get used to performance but mine still feels quick even having got used to it, the 350Z got to feel a bit slow within a couple of months but there is a point where it just gets ridiculous and you dont need to accelerate any faster, its great pub talk but after a point utter overkill and almost like it is the wrong scale for the road, 100 mph in 5 seconds from standstill, how the hell do you use that ?
WHat I find as I get faster stuff is, I dont really go any faster, I rarely get chance, I just have more spare.
Most of the public think that their 70 bhp supermini is rapid, and it will be adequate in all motoring situations, the same people will not be able to comprehend anything aster than a 170 bhp diesel, they arent used to that shove.
I do wonder how some cope when they go to something properly quick having not done fast cars before, like Lottery winners, the ones that dont just buy a new Fiesta and go and get a McLaren, we know someone with one, she hates going in it as she finds the acceleration sickening and painful
I still find my CLS to be pretty vigorous, the 350Z was brisk but this feels a lot quicker, next one will be a CLS63 or XFR and even then, they get nowhere near proper, modern supercars or the loony track stuff.
I think the next step will be plenty for me, forever, you do get used to performance but mine still feels quick even having got used to it, the 350Z got to feel a bit slow within a couple of months but there is a point where it just gets ridiculous and you dont need to accelerate any faster, its great pub talk but after a point utter overkill and almost like it is the wrong scale for the road, 100 mph in 5 seconds from standstill, how the hell do you use that ?
WHat I find as I get faster stuff is, I dont really go any faster, I rarely get chance, I just have more spare.
Passenger ride in a 997 GT3 RS was probably the quickest I've been in.
TVR Griffith 500 was not as fast but it felt even quicker (the noise and torque were tremendous).
Fastest car I've driven is a toss up between my Z4C, 350Z or MR2 Turbo. Z4 feels the quickest of those; or my DC2 was an absolute weapon cross country even if it couldn't match those in a straight line, the FN2 (with the Group N map) was pretty damn good as well as long as you were really brutal.
In other words, nothing thats REALLY fast.
TVR Griffith 500 was not as fast but it felt even quicker (the noise and torque were tremendous).
Fastest car I've driven is a toss up between my Z4C, 350Z or MR2 Turbo. Z4 feels the quickest of those; or my DC2 was an absolute weapon cross country even if it couldn't match those in a straight line, the FN2 (with the Group N map) was pretty damn good as well as long as you were really brutal.
In other words, nothing thats REALLY fast.
996 Turbo S with the X50 pack, 450bhp iirc. It was the first car that that I've been in that felt like it could really give a good shove above 100mph. My love of Porsche Turbos was cemented from that day on. It just lurched away on boost, amazing feeling.
The E39 M5 was another good one, I remember thinking that such a big and luxurious car had no business having such vigorous acceleration and the induction noise was immense. The car belonged to one of the boss men at work, it was an absolute minter weekend car and he drove it like a lunatic, which made the short passenger ride a hair-raising experience.
These days I drive a Ford Focus so no thrills there and the fastest car I've owned was a modified Leon Cupra R 225. I've got a GSX-R1000 (183bhp) for fun though, so now nothing really feels quick any more. Last year I had a test ride on an MV Agusta F4 (195bhp) and an Aprilia RSV4 RF (201bhp). I'm not sure what could impress any more, I think something like a Hennessey Venom could give comparable acceleration. Cars feel very muted after experiencing a bike though, so even a Venom at full chat might seem a bit serene, sitting inside all that glass, metal and leather.
The E39 M5 was another good one, I remember thinking that such a big and luxurious car had no business having such vigorous acceleration and the induction noise was immense. The car belonged to one of the boss men at work, it was an absolute minter weekend car and he drove it like a lunatic, which made the short passenger ride a hair-raising experience.
These days I drive a Ford Focus so no thrills there and the fastest car I've owned was a modified Leon Cupra R 225. I've got a GSX-R1000 (183bhp) for fun though, so now nothing really feels quick any more. Last year I had a test ride on an MV Agusta F4 (195bhp) and an Aprilia RSV4 RF (201bhp). I'm not sure what could impress any more, I think something like a Hennessey Venom could give comparable acceleration. Cars feel very muted after experiencing a bike though, so even a Venom at full chat might seem a bit serene, sitting inside all that glass, metal and leather.
Our TVR Griffith 500 was rather rapid; it made the other quick cars of our fleet, an E34 M5 Touring and an Impreza WRX Prodrive seem sluggish. A friend had a Diablo and after driving them back to back we agreed that whilst very different design-wise there was nothing to choose between them performance-wise.
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