4.5 bhp - is this false advertising?
Discussion
Hi all,
Been lurking and reading (thinking of buying a Cerbera when I sell my house soon).
My question is this:
It appears that few/none of the 4.5s actually make the 420bhp as stated by the factory. If this is the case is this not an example of false advertising by TVR. Surely, they should leave the factory with a min of 420bhp and not require a RR conversion to bring them back to spec. How do they get away with this?
Cheers - Rich
Been lurking and reading (thinking of buying a Cerbera when I sell my house soon).
My question is this:
It appears that few/none of the 4.5s actually make the 420bhp as stated by the factory. If this is the case is this not an example of false advertising by TVR. Surely, they should leave the factory with a min of 420bhp and not require a RR conversion to bring them back to spec. How do they get away with this?
Cheers - Rich
Hi,
"If you really feel the need to prove something at the rolling road then perhaps you should be looking at a chipped'n'boosted Skyline with 1000bhp....."
It is not that I want to prove something, it is just that I read and hear of 4.2s being nearly as fast and indeed some people saying that 4.2s can be quicker. It just seems to make little sense to me that the 4.5 should be not that much different from the 4.2.
At the end of the day I think I would prefer a 4.5 as I understand that they are more reliable and come with larger brakes and hydratrack as std. I was just curious as to the discrepencies in the quoted and actual power of the cars.
Rich
"If you really feel the need to prove something at the rolling road then perhaps you should be looking at a chipped'n'boosted Skyline with 1000bhp....."
It is not that I want to prove something, it is just that I read and hear of 4.2s being nearly as fast and indeed some people saying that 4.2s can be quicker. It just seems to make little sense to me that the 4.5 should be not that much different from the 4.2.
At the end of the day I think I would prefer a 4.5 as I understand that they are more reliable and come with larger brakes and hydratrack as std. I was just curious as to the discrepencies in the quoted and actual power of the cars.
Rich
Hi,
"So your car has 400 rather than 420BHP. You really going to sue TVR over that?"
It was my understanding that it is not uncommon for the figure to be as low as 360 or 380. Quite a difference from the 420.
"And lets face it here - if you can drive the car so that the differences are noticable then you are better driver than pretty much all of us.... "
Fair point!
Cheers - R
"So your car has 400 rather than 420BHP. You really going to sue TVR over that?"
It was my understanding that it is not uncommon for the figure to be as low as 360 or 380. Quite a difference from the 420.
"And lets face it here - if you can drive the car so that the differences are noticable then you are better driver than pretty much all of us.... "
Fair point!
Cheers - R
"We all get excited by the ultimately unimportant bhp figure before we buy the car ... we're living in Top Trumps land. Once you've driven a few and maybe bought one, you actually know what the cars are all about and the bhp numbers become a bit more acedemic."
Agreed...so, are you guys saying that desite being down on advertised power the 4.5 is still putting down 3.something 0-60s??
R
Agreed...so, are you guys saying that desite being down on advertised power the 4.5 is still putting down 3.something 0-60s??
R
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