What's the most powerful car you have owned?

What's the most powerful car you have owned?

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RobM77

35,349 posts

233 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Z4 Coupé with 265bhp. Strange question and answer though given that my current car has 5bhp less but is actually 2 seconds quicker to 60, 5 seconds quicker to 100 and around a race track quicker than only a handful of other production cars...

Cento186

32 posts

137 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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After being a long time reader I thought I better post something smile

My current and most powerful is my Seicento Sporting with an insane 54bhp!! (The little 1.1 has a nice italian fizz to it)

Most powerful car driven is a Ferrari 360 on a track ~400bhp, yet my Seicento brings many more smiles biggrin


I'm aiming for an MX5 or 944 once I'm 21 though driving

fandango_c

1,914 posts

185 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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T1berious said:
Urban Sports said:
Ilikebeaver said:
Froomee said:
luke111s said:
zed4 said:
GroundEffect said:
Z4M - 343PS.
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Boobonman

5,645 posts

191 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Probably my old mans new M3. 420bhp but heavy enough...

cerb4.5lee

30,195 posts

179 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Boobonman said:
Probably my old mans new M3. 420bhp but heavy enough...
I agree & they don't feel like they have over 400bhp when you drive one as the weight blunts the performance significantly.

Seeker UK

1,442 posts

157 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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The most BHP I've owned is 282BHP but that was in 3 cars, all BMWs: E24 M635csi, E31 840ci, E32 740i.

However, the 6 felt like it had 282BHP. the others were a bit more lazy.

RenaultK4J

108 posts

175 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Owned - 306 GTI-6 170 bhp
Driven - there's a few, probably a R32 GTR around 320 bhp
Passenger - Evo 9 FQ360

Edited by RenaultK4J on Friday 27th December 22:21

Grubbster

324 posts

169 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Most I've owned is probably my RS Megane RB8 at 260 ish, my Impreza WRX PPP may have been more (I can't remember). The most I've driven is 1200 - in a Challenger II, probably doesn't count though wink

Lew123

33 posts

126 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Astra vxr 280bhp ..

Zwolf

25,867 posts

205 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Owned: E39 M5 400PS / 394bhp
Driven: E60 M5 507PS / 500bhp
Passengered: R230 SL65 AMG 612PS / 604bhp

Next after the SL65 is an F10 M5 at 560PS / 552bhp so other than that it would have been an M5 clean sweep. hehe

Leins

9,421 posts

147 months

Friday 27th December 2013
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Seeker UK said:
The most BHP I've owned is 282BHP but that was in 3 cars, all BMWs: E24 M635csi, E31 840ci, E32 740i.

However, the 6 felt like it had 282BHP. the others were a bit more lazy.
BMW seemed to love that BHP figure over the years, with the likes of the E36 M3 and E9x 335d too

355BHP is my max (M3 CSL)

derin100

5,214 posts

242 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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Leins said:
Seeker UK said:
The most BHP I've owned is 282BHP but that was in 3 cars, all BMWs: E24 M635csi, E31 840ci, E32 740i.

However, the 6 felt like it had 282BHP. the others were a bit more lazy.
BMW seemed to love that BHP figure over the years, with the likes of the E36 M3 and E9x 335d too

355BHP is my max (M3 CSL)
It's actually 286 (maybe PS?) for all of the above cars and is due to a German Tax bracket. In other words the engines are pegged to that to avoid falling into a higher bracket.

P.S My highest power was this:

http://www.bmwclassics.co.uk/mercedes_amg_c55/inde...

But my actual fastest was this:

http://www.bmwclassics.co.uk/2003_M3_CSL/index.htm...



Edited by derin100 on Saturday 28th December 00:58

161BMW

1,697 posts

164 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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E46 M3 CS

Zwolf

25,867 posts

205 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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derin100 said:
It's actually 286 (maybe PS?)
yes

286PS = 282 bhp

Leins

9,421 posts

147 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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derin100 said:
It's actually 286 (maybe PS?) for all of the above cars and is due to a German Tax bracket. In other words the engines are pegged to that to avoid falling into a higher bracket.
Never knew that. Was that the case even back in the early 80s for the E24/E28?

Have any other German manufacturers hit the 282BHP/286PS mark? Only one I can think of which was close was the AMG C36

Boobonman

5,645 posts

191 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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swerni said:
Boobonman said:
Probably my old mans new M3. 420bhp but heavy enough...
You own your days car?
Does he know?
I may as well, he never bloody uses it!

m44kts

801 posts

199 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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Most powerful was the 3200GT Maserati at circa 370bhp, currently my Chevy pickup has roughly 280-300bhp and my Cooper S is probably somewhere round the 180bhp with a pulley upgrade (15%) and air filter. Looking at a V10 S6 next though.

Driven an Audi R8 V10 Plus with 510PS , was rather brisk.

GrahamPM

1,057 posts

230 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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My old Ferrari 599 had in excess of 600hp. Ok in a straight line and clear road!
Graham

Zwolf

25,867 posts

205 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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Leins said:
Never knew that. Was that the case even back in the early 80s for the E24/E28?

Have any other German manufacturers hit the 282BHP/286PS mark? Only one I can think of which was close was the AMG C36
193 was another one, hence at one time, Mercedes, Audi and BMWs 2.8 litre sixes all produced exactly the same 193PS, as did Merc's 2.3 Kompressor, yet with different peak torque/rpm figures which doesn't necessarily add up. Given the additional capacity and feel of the 2.8 in the 328i over the preceding 192PS 325i, it's certainly more than 1hp. Most tend to be 205-210 when dyno'd.

W210 E430 was there at 286 too IIRC.

Galileo

3,145 posts

217 months

Saturday 28th December 2013
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OOh look, another pissing competition!

Ok. I used to have a Porsche 911 LE which had been upgraded by the first owner to a reputed 600bhp, with brake bias and manual turbo boost adjustment added. I never had this confirmed cos it had enough power to scare the st out of me!

Looked like this;