Best Value Cars BHP per £

[HaylingJag]

Bit of mathe for you all,

what is the best BHP per £ that you have achieved, for example my recent-ish purchases equate to;

XJR-V8 Purchase price £3700 BHP=370 £/BHP = £10
XJR-6 Purchase price £2000 BHP=322 £/BHP = £6.21
XJ8 4.0 Purchase price £800 BHP=285 £/BHP = £2.81.

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[Dave Hedgehog]

anyone buying a car for £1 will win

[cocopop]

A friend of mine:

Micra K10 Purchase price £40 BHP=59 £/BHP = 68p

[SonicShadow]

Need to factor weight in there too to get a half decent idea of performance per £, which is the only reason I can see for wanting such a bizarre statistic.

[Face for Radio]

I got given a 190E 1.8 auto for free.

[jimbobsimmonds]

Volvo S70 T5 for £400... 240bhp and around 1450kgs...

[mike88]

Rover 620ti, 200bhp, £100 = 50p/bhp.

[MarJay]

An MR2 Turbo must be quite high up there, surely? Especially as you can tune them a little...?

[nickbee]

This is pointless, it's just cheapest car wins, even if you use bhp/ton instead of bhp.

Take the MR2 suggested above which is a relatively good shout for a cheap, powerful car. BIN on ebay for £1100, tuned to 280bhp, weighs 1.1 tonnes. 280/1.1/1100 = 0.19 bhp/ton per pound.

Then take the cheapest BIN car on ebay, a Renault Megane RTE 1.6e. £180, 90bhp, 1.055 tons. That gives you 0.47 bhp/ton per pound. Two times better 'value' than a tuned MR2 turbo.

ETA: used Parkers for my figures and yes, I'm bored.

[HaylingJag]

Kinnell,

wasnt supposed to be a maths lesson, just a general interest in what the best BHP/£ people have got!

ultimately anyone not paying for a car will be best off, until the next guy comes along and says he was given a Veyron!!

[pilchardthecat]

Face for Radio said:

I got given a 190E 1.8 auto for free.

aaaargh - divide by zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tom felty]

pilchardthecat said:

aaaargh - divide by zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then it =0 so 105 hp for £0
well done sir

[pilchardthecat]

tom felty said:

pilchardthecat said:

aaaargh - divide by zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then it =0 so 105 hp for £0
well done sir

Mathematically i think it "tends towards infinity" :wink:

[PUA]

pilchardthecat said:

Face for Radio said:

I got given a 190E 1.8 auto for free.

aaaargh - divide by zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or track down the person who gave you the merc and give him 1p as delayed payment for said car. It will really help this thread in need

[TinyCappo]

MR2 V6 £80p/HP

[GroundEffect]

tom felty said:

pilchardthecat said:

aaaargh - divide by zero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then it =0 so 105 hp for £0
well done sir

Uhm, you can't divide by zero.

[KaraK]

Dave Hedgehog said:

anyone buying a car for £1 will win

Since we are disallowing the free cars for universe-ruining divide by zero shennanigans I'll say my entry of an XR4x4 for 1p is going to take some beating

148hp / £0.01 = 14800 bhp/£

[foxonfirehere]

Although some people are attempting to ruin the thread.

Toyota Soarer twin turbo - £1300 - 276 bhp - 0.21 hp/£
Sold to mate for "950" (although by way of "mates" finance agreement getting him out of a pickle then him taking time to pay it actually cost him 1070).
so he got an even better deal (even if it did then have more problems in his 3 months of ownership than my previous ~34.

Why don't we restrict it to "performance" and "decent" cars that are actually worth discussing the metric of - as opposed to free stters that are definitely great value for mobility but... barge-sheds / ebay wins ftw

[KaraK]

foxonfirehere said:

Although some people are attempting to ruin the thread.

Toyota Soarer twin turbo - £1300 - 276 bhp - 0.21 hp/£
Sold to mate for "950" (although by way of "mates" finance agreement getting him out of a pickle then him taking time to pay it actually cost him 1070).
so he got an even better deal (even if it did then have more problems in his 3 months of ownership than my previous ~34.

Why don't we restrict it to "performance" and "decent" cars that are actually worth discussing the metric of - as opposed to free stters that are definitely great value for mobility but... barge-sheds / ebay wins ftw

Does my my XR4x4 count as a "performance" car?

[kambites]

GroundEffect said:

Uhm, you can't divide by zero.

Of course you can; you just don't get a finite answer.