200mph and front wheel drive? I presume its been done?

[bigfatnick]

Inspired by the guy who has the rx7 build in the readers rides sections wanting to do 200mph for 10k, I began wondering if someone had done 200mph in a fwd car, but having quickly googled it, i couldnt find any evidence of it. Google didn't even throw up an bonneville style stuff. Does anyone know of a 200mph front wheel drive car? If not, how would you do it?

The new focus rs supposedly does 173mph iirc, and it cant be particularly aerodynamic with all that fibreglass hanging off it, and there was a smilarly paced vecrta if i remember correctly, so what about a calibra/cougar/mx6/406 coupe? How much power would it require to get one of these to 200mph? i presume someone on here knows how to do the maths, given the drag co-eficient?

[bigfatnick]

K87 said:

Why does the driven wheels being front and not rear affect it particularly?

doesnt as such, just wondered if it'd been done.

and the post below yours shows it has been done.

Now, what would it take to do it in a road car!

I presume the calibra has the lowest drag coeffcient, since everyone raves about it. That civic had 560wheel bhp.Calibra, Smooth underpanels, taped cracks, tiny wingmirrors, narrow tyres, 600bhp custom gearing for exactly 200mph on the limiter?

Edited by bigfatnick on Friday 18th December 08:28