Shall we have a PH Top 100 - Best 4wd performance cars

[300bhp/ton]

We've done Top 100's before.


This time. What is in your opinion, the best or your favourite 4wd/AWD performance car... EVER?


Rules:

-Must be or have been a genuine production car the public could buy/have bought

-Must be AWD of some kind

-Performance focused, as in road and speed performance.


Nominations:

-You can vote for as many cars as you like, however you may only vote for a particular car only once.

-Please try and be specific to model, variant or year if the car has undergone many variations and generations.

-Reasons why you nominate that vehicle {optional if you can't be bothered}

[300bhp/ton]

To get the ball rolling....


Jensen FF, because it was really the first of this ilk. Oh and it looks great and has a wonderful V8 engine

[300bhp/ton]

Nanook said:

So no Pajero Evos and LM002s?

They don't meet the 'fast road' requirement really.

I think they probably do. If you wanted to vote for one, then I certainly wouldn't object.

Nanook said:

Some of the Bowler stuff

Less keen on including these. As they are really only built for racing and are arguably just a modified production vehicle (even if heavily modified). For instance, Bowler don't build Defenders or Range Rovers, they modify them into competition vehicles and then sell them.

[300bhp/ton]

yonex said:

groomi said:

If only they'd built it the way they planned to in 1988...

Can you imagine it, what a thing it would have been.

Slower, heavier, worse handling, slower track times, slower acceleration, lower top speed.

It might have sounded nice. But tbh the competition developed and purpose built V6 was a much better power plant.

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Saturday 30th April 13:21

[300bhp/ton]

daveinhampshire said:

FeelingLucky said:

AdamIndy said:

Metro 6R4. Again, so ugly it's cool. A jag V6 in the arse end of a metro? Just nuts!

In what sense did it have a Jag v6 in it's MIDDLE?

They're kind of right. The 6R4 engine was based on the Rover V8 with two cylinders chopped off and very heavily revised. It eventually ended up in the XJ220 after being completely revised again. And to confuse things even more the metr 6r4 was in fact a maestro floorpan if memory serves.

Nope it isn't a Rover V8 based engine at all. That's just folk lore. An early prototype to test the cylinder heads was a cut down Rover block. But the actual engine has nothing to do with the Rover in parts or design. It's a 100% competition built engine. Which yes then found a hole in the XJ220 in turbo form.