What's the fastest 'feeling' car you've been in?
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sidewaysste said:
The fourth and by far the scariest was my MX-5. I now owned a tuning company. I had poured all of my company's marketing budget into building this thing. It had titanium valve gear, a custom made turbo (It turns out Garrett love a silly project as much as anyone else) methanol injection and ran 35 psi boost. I remember literally driving rings around a Ferrari 360 that tried to race it.
I never got an actual power figure as I couldn't find a hub dyno locally and it would just spin the wheels on roller dynos. Conservative estimates from old hands at the drag strip put the power at around 600bhp. In 850kg.
I never got an actual power figure as I couldn't find a hub dyno locally and it would just spin the wheels on roller dynos. Conservative estimates from old hands at the drag strip put the power at around 600bhp. In 850kg.
Having owned a Mk1 MX5 with around 300bhp (255 at the wheels), I can only imagine one with double that!
I haven't been in many 'fast' cars but the few that did scare the crap out of me were a 500+ bhp R32 skyline, E46 M3, a Renault 5 'Raider' with a few mods and maybe surprisingly, a civic type r..the older shape EP3 i think it's called..it was lightly modded with straight thru exhaust and induction kit only but felt v raw when being pushed.
I've since been in faster more modern cars but they take some of that rawness away with the safety features etc
I've since been in faster more modern cars but they take some of that rawness away with the safety features etc
Edited by VR99 on Friday 20th December 00:21
might have said before. in the 80's my best school friends dad was a world rally champion.
so a lift one night home, in a works audi quattro was something beyond belief. you might have been quicker in whatever fancy car now ------------ but nothing compares to being driven by an actual trophy holding world champion.
it was the way the car took off, landed, turned, with absolute micro precision and certainty.
so a lift one night home, in a works audi quattro was something beyond belief. you might have been quicker in whatever fancy car now ------------ but nothing compares to being driven by an actual trophy holding world champion.
it was the way the car took off, landed, turned, with absolute micro precision and certainty.
Mr Tidy said:
Nothing much by current bonkers standards, but I picked up a BMW Z4M Coupe yesterday and damp roundabouts are definitely fun in a lower gear! 
Breaking traction in third on a damp road also gets your attention - I'm just looking forward to a dry day!
You will definitely really get to enjoy it come the spring/summer. This time of the year can be very annoying unless you have 4wd...and its just wheelspin, wheelspin and more wheelspin in a Fwd or Rwd car! Breaking traction in third on a damp road also gets your attention - I'm just looking forward to a dry day!
austinsmirk said:
might have said before. in the 80's my best school friends dad was a world rally champion.
so a lift one night home, in a works audi quattro was something beyond belief. you might have been quicker in whatever fancy car now ------------ but nothing compares to being driven by an actual trophy holding world champion.
it was the way the car took off, landed, turned, with absolute micro precision and certainty.
British or Scandinavian dad?so a lift one night home, in a works audi quattro was something beyond belief. you might have been quicker in whatever fancy car now ------------ but nothing compares to being driven by an actual trophy holding world champion.
it was the way the car took off, landed, turned, with absolute micro precision and certainty.
austinsmirk said:
might have said before. in the 80's my best school friends dad was a world rally champion.
so a lift one night home, in a works audi quattro was something beyond belief. you might have been quicker in whatever fancy car now ------------ but nothing compares to being driven by an actual trophy holding world champion.
it was the way the car took off, landed, turned, with absolute micro precision and certainty.
That reminds me of a memorable passenger ride with this guy - https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-general-1/1569...so a lift one night home, in a works audi quattro was something beyond belief. you might have been quicker in whatever fancy car now ------------ but nothing compares to being driven by an actual trophy holding world champion.
it was the way the car took off, landed, turned, with absolute micro precision and certainty.
Approaching the Nottingham Knight roundabout at god only knows what speed, in a Saab 99 Turbo, I went from s
tting myself as he went sideways through it, to thinking 'oh, he meant to do that....'Sadly killed years ago in a head on with a Land Rover.
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