Weakest engine in heaviest car?

[Dave^]

Letstorquebhp has the MX5 (Mk1 1600) at 94bhp/tonne and the Ultima Maxximus G-Force (who the fk thought of THAT for a name?!?!) at 1325bhp/tonne...

[Dave^]

300bhp/ton said:

Dave^ said:

The clue is in the question...

To be frank, I'm disappointed!! I was hoping you'd throw in some obscure yank tanks in for both...

lol, but define a car.

This is also called a car....

Car as in "short for Carriage"?

[JonRB]

jas xjr said:

bmw 518

My granddad had one in the late 80's early 90's. Not sure if it was an E28 or E34 as the model year changed round about then.
I do remember that it struggled to get up inclines on the motorway though.

[kambites]

I would imagine that the Caparo T1 has the highest power to weight ratio of a "production" car.

[doc3]

The Mondeo can be had with a 1.6 litre petrol lump, and it's a particularly gutless one at that. I imagine it would be dangerously slow.

[Hugo a Gogo]

8 seat Nissan Serena van was available with 75bhp diesel, as was the old 200 Merc (E-class size) in taxi spec

[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP]

The previous-gen Audi A4 could be had with a 1.6 105bhp engine. Oh, and obviously in S-Line trim too ...

VW Golf - big heavy hatchback with a 75bhp 1.4

[300bhp/ton]

Dave^ said:

300bhp/ton said:

Dave^ said:

The clue is in the question...

To be frank, I'm disappointed!! I was hoping you'd throw in some obscure yank tanks in for both...

lol, but define a car.

This is also called a car....

Car as in "short for Carriage"?

Actually you are right, guess this answers the OP really. A 1hp car

[kambites]

The last generation Fiat Doblo was apparently available with under 50bhp/tonne.

[300bhp/ton]

doc3 said:

The Mondeo can be had with a 1.6 litre petrol lump, and it's a particularly gutless one at that. I imagine it would be dangerously slow.

Dangerously slow......

Some of you guys....

[kambites]

300bhp/ton said:

Actually you are right, guess this answers the OP really. A 1hp car

Horses actually generate considerably more than 1hp. A horse power was the average amount of power that a horse could put out over the course of a farming day, meant to be a representation of how much ground a machine could plow in relation to a horse, or something equally odd.

[S1MMA]

Merc W140 S350D was pretty bad, 150bhp turbo diesel lugging around nearly 2 tonnes. Bet that flew to 60mph in about 15 seconds....

[kambites]

300bhp/ton said:

Dangerously slow......

Some of you guys....

Indeed. The slowest Mondeo still does 0-60 in under 13 seconds. Hardly "dangerously slow".

[rallycross]

I once had a Merc 190E with a 2.0 non turbo diesel engine and manual gearbox.

I remember driving it from London to Scotland and back it felt like the slowest accelerating car I had ever driven. 0 to 80 could be counted in minutes rather than seconds.

And it was Beige with a beige cloth interiror and wind up windows. Possibly the worst spec'ed car I've ever had the misfortune of driving.

[kambites]

doogz said:

Depends how big the horse is.

Well yeah, OK, a Shetland pony might be about 1bhp.

[Lordbenny]

1.3 Mk4 Cortina

PPC's 27 Litre Rover!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/1981-rover-sd1-27-litre/27...

[ClaphamGT3]

I dont know the actual figures but the W140 series S280 was spectacularly underpowered

[JonRB]

You're still going to have to go a long way to beat the aforementioned BMW 518

[Podie]

JonRB said:

You're still going to have to go a long way to beat the aforementioned BMW 518

Exactly my thought when I saw the thread title...

[Harry Monk]

Podie said:

JonRB said:

You're still going to have to go a long way to beat the aforementioned BMW 518

Exactly my thought when I saw the thread title...

It is the doyen of underpowered cars.