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Saw this on the Autocar's site, can someone please post the resaults? Thank you. |
The Caterham R500 kicked ASS!!!!!
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John - Paul here - I'll ring you tomorrow ref your garage floor, ok?
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Top man! That will be spot on!
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Seems the car to have is a Jaguar R3 - 5.9secs I think:D
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slower of the mark than a scoob!
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My Scooby would do 0-100-0 in less than 4 seconds...............if I drove it off the Dartford Crossing!!!!:D:
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This is the Scooby results:
http://upload.turbosport.co.uk/getpi...5845186123.jpg It came below mid-table, beaten by F1 cars, 911 Turbos, etc :) |
any other result please?? FEDE
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Jaguar R3 F1 5.90s
Gould hill climber 7.2s Caterham R500 11.44s Pagani 11.84s 911 Turbo 13.02s Radical 13.20s Murcielago 13.90s Merc SL55 15.15s TVR Tamora 15.20s Evo Sprint 15.90s Audi RS6 16.75s STi 18.40s Elise Sprint 20.53s Focus RS 21.25s Cupra R 21.95s Civic R 22.60s |
Everything got its a$$ kick by the F1 car but we knew that before hand. Nice to see they put a lightweight RS sprint EVO not a normal lardy one :D.
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The article highlights the fact that the F1 car was TWICE as quick as the Pagani and that has 555bhp and is pretty light-weight.
How quick must that feel! |
I liked the 215mph terminal speed for the Jaguar R3 for the standing mile.....
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What happened to the 'all conquering' Focus that they were raving about the week before? Not much different from the Civic or the Leon
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Seems the Focus has a torque limiter in the engine management that stops wheelspin in the first couple of gears. So it was virtually level with the cupra, etc until it hit third gear and then off it went.
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Seems the Focus has a torque limiter in the engine management that stops wheelspin in the first couple of gears. So it was virtually level with the cupra, etc until it hit third gear and then off it went. |
That F1 Jag is just incredible. It accellerates faster than our cars can brake! Just try a full-on stop from 100mph and then try to imagine accellerating at that speed, while changing gear and steering at the same time :eek:
Richard. OK so they have automatic boxes now, but you get what I mean. |
Seems the Focus has a torque limiter in the engine management that stops wheelspin in the first couple of gears. So it was virtually level with the cupra, etc until it hit third gear and then off it went. |
Autocar results are so crap......for example last weeks edition they had the Civic Type R beat the Rs and Cupra R to 100 in 16.2s and this week they have the Civic doing 17.68s.....and these figures were done on a track by them....
How reliable are Autocar figures...not much me thinks..... [Edited by bash - 9/26/2002 9:35:05 AM] |
The Gould car, was this a monocoque terrapin derivative or something?
the F1 car is just mind blowing, probably quite handy on the drag strip! Anyone know the 1/4 mile time for the F1 car? Paul |
Theres always something smelly about Autocars tests.....
So an R500 does 0-100 in 7.5ish secs does it :rolleyes: And I think someone needs to get the Radical on a dyno - 252hp and 475kg (and low 130mph max gearing doesn't equal 0-100 in 8.9 secs - if it does those 252 horse must be v small ones lol. |
Craig, I'm fairly certain that Autocar's figures are legit - as measured on the day, in that car, at that place.
If there are any doubts, I would look at the cars, all of which will have been supplied by the manufacturers in the full knowledge of what was being done. I ain't accusing anyone, but it is not unknown for 'press' cars (or bikes) to be a little more than standard. Anything from sticky tires and hotter brake pads, to full blue-printed engines, altered gear ratios and tweaked ECUs. Best regards, Richard. |
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