What's the fastest 'feeling' car you've been in?
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During the 80`s I used to look after a number of rally cars. One was a fully prept Group B Metro 6R4, that was of course completely road legal.On one occasion I was asked to deliver it to a location out of town,so I drove it there. There was one safe long bit of quiet road where I decided to floor it, the acceleration just scared me to death,it was an amazing experience.
For me it was a DB9. The torque from the V12 in 3rd was something else. All I could do was mutter 'Bloody hell'. That was one one of those dream car track day thing and I was used to a 1.4 100hp Rover 200!
Also my Speed 6 Tuscan that I owned a few years ago. Decatted and pushing 390 BHP. God it was fast! The bloke who drove it when I went to see it hammered up a slip road and we were at 110 at the top. I will always remember that.
The fact it was a terrifying car to drive probably added to the feeling of speed, haha!
Also my Speed 6 Tuscan that I owned a few years ago. Decatted and pushing 390 BHP. God it was fast! The bloke who drove it when I went to see it hammered up a slip road and we were at 110 at the top. I will always remember that.
The fact it was a terrifying car to drive probably added to the feeling of speed, haha!
.In the 80's, my best school mates, father, was a world rally champion and works driver. as parents do, my parents, hos parents, they ferried us from house to house.
He once took me home, over the moors in his works Audi Quattro.
Forget feeling fast/going fast- straight line/on a track etc--------------nothing comes close to a professional rally driver hooning it over the moors and as a schoolboy you can see dash showing 130/140 on B roads.
Critically it was how the car was driven: it was perfect, planted, gripping, landing perfectly- it felt safe.
He once took me home, over the moors in his works Audi Quattro.
Forget feeling fast/going fast- straight line/on a track etc--------------nothing comes close to a professional rally driver hooning it over the moors and as a schoolboy you can see dash showing 130/140 on B roads.
Critically it was how the car was driven: it was perfect, planted, gripping, landing perfectly- it felt safe.
In terms of acceleration g-force, nothing touches a top EV because of the instant torque.
Of an ICE car, then a 900hp GTR was insane, but not EV quick, more theatre than an EV but an EVs lack of theatre means theres no distraction which makes the acceleration and build of wind noise a totally different experience, both are brilliant.
Of an ICE car, then a 900hp GTR was insane, but not EV quick, more theatre than an EV but an EVs lack of theatre means theres no distraction which makes the acceleration and build of wind noise a totally different experience, both are brilliant.
Fastest feel passenger ride..
427 AC cobra as the NEC classic car show about 18 years ago..holy hell that still in my mind as brutal
6R4 rally car when I was 16 doing work experience in Rover in Gaydon...serous grin factor as a young boy
Fastest felt driven..
RS7 Performance test drive, planted the throttle and king hell was all i could say lol
427 AC cobra as the NEC classic car show about 18 years ago..holy hell that still in my mind as brutal
6R4 rally car when I was 16 doing work experience in Rover in Gaydon...serous grin factor as a young boy
Fastest felt driven..
RS7 Performance test drive, planted the throttle and king hell was all i could say lol
Mclaren P1 GTR.
But not for the acceleration, for the braking!
No road car is really "that" fast in the grand scheme of things. Tyres limit you to 1g without aero assistance, and all more power does is increase the speed up to which that 1g can be pulled. Even something as rapid as a P1 GTR still takes something like 6 seconds to get to 100mph, which is actually a fairly long period of time.
For really big G, you need to add an extra degree of freedom and take to the skies! (or try a top fuel dragster! 0 -> 336mph in 3.6 sec......)
But not for the acceleration, for the braking!
No road car is really "that" fast in the grand scheme of things. Tyres limit you to 1g without aero assistance, and all more power does is increase the speed up to which that 1g can be pulled. Even something as rapid as a P1 GTR still takes something like 6 seconds to get to 100mph, which is actually a fairly long period of time.
For really big G, you need to add an extra degree of freedom and take to the skies! (or try a top fuel dragster! 0 -> 336mph in 3.6 sec......)
IanH's 920bhp Audi rs6. I had a ride in it at a meet.
Jesus.
Second place would be between a 400-and-something BHP Impreza, or a ~650BHP Mustang (the previous gen - 2005 ish).
Jesus.
Second place would be between a 400-and-something BHP Impreza, or a ~650BHP Mustang (the previous gen - 2005 ish).
When I first got my Monaro it was the first 'fast' car I'd driven on the road. I had done an experience day where I'd driven a Gallardo and things like that, but on a wide open track it didn't 'feel' that fast, or certainly not in a way that stuck in my mind.
I had gone from a 75bhp Clio to a 400bhp Monaro, so the difference in thrust was fairly significant. I was walking to work at the time, so I excitedly drove the car in the evenings and it took about 2 weeks before it didn't make my vision go blurry / tunneled when planting the throttle in 1st / 2nd
I think that's the biggest step jump I'm likely to be able to make, I'd like to experience a Tesla just to get an idea of it, curious how the lack of drama would change things.
The Monaro is a little brisker now, and certainly the way it lifts the nose at the sky and makes a noise best described by a Clarksonism of some sort is enough to make passenger either laugh out loud or go a bit wide-eye / hand on mouth / squirmy, but after nearly 9 years of incremental improvements it feels totally normal now, it just means other stuff feels slower.
I will second the X308 XJR with the supercharged 4 litre, my Dad took me out in one on a Jaguar open day and the way such a large (as a kid) and comfortable environment just effortlessly and relentlessly 'f
ked off' was wonderful.
I had gone from a 75bhp Clio to a 400bhp Monaro, so the difference in thrust was fairly significant. I was walking to work at the time, so I excitedly drove the car in the evenings and it took about 2 weeks before it didn't make my vision go blurry / tunneled when planting the throttle in 1st / 2nd
I think that's the biggest step jump I'm likely to be able to make, I'd like to experience a Tesla just to get an idea of it, curious how the lack of drama would change things.
The Monaro is a little brisker now, and certainly the way it lifts the nose at the sky and makes a noise best described by a Clarksonism of some sort is enough to make passenger either laugh out loud or go a bit wide-eye / hand on mouth / squirmy, but after nearly 9 years of incremental improvements it feels totally normal now, it just means other stuff feels slower.
I will second the X308 XJR with the supercharged 4 litre, my Dad took me out in one on a Jaguar open day and the way such a large (as a kid) and comfortable environment just effortlessly and relentlessly 'f
ked off' was wonderful.My ford Gt40 replica comes to mind , not the fastest car ive been in but the noise behind your head was sublime.
also had a westfield megabusa which weighed 450 kg, gee gods that was scary at 10,000 rpm ! took big balls to keep your foot in down a bum
Still very surprising was my F type v8 s cabrio with a quicksilver sport exhaust. the noise of that made it feel like the car exploded down the road. hugely impressive!
also had a westfield megabusa which weighed 450 kg, gee gods that was scary at 10,000 rpm ! took big balls to keep your foot in down a bum
Still very surprising was my F type v8 s cabrio with a quicksilver sport exhaust. the noise of that made it feel like the car exploded down the road. hugely impressive!
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