DavidBrown

In the current edition of Autocar the "Omatic" has been unveiled.

625bhp/Tonne - lotsa downforce, all in a Westie lookalike body.

chuckster

Yeah I've looked at whats available on these - imagine turning up in the 110bhp Daewo powered one LOL
The big power one around £30k?
Chuck

rsquire

Scour that site as I might I couldn't get anywhere near those figures..

All I could find was..

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>offering either 110BHP 1.6 litre Daewoo engines with 5 speed gearboxes driving the rear wheels, or 2.0 litre Honda VTEC power, delivering around 250BHP through a 6 speed gearbox and limited slip differential<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


But then... I'm just a newcomer to these little plastic bodied cars

DavidBrown

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by rsquire:
<B>Scour that site as I might I couldn't get anywhere near those figures..
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250bhp through 400kg = 650bhp/tonne

rsquire

But as I said

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>But then... I'm just a newcomer to these little plastic bodied cars <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Mmmm Love to know exactly what they have done to reduce the weight by that amount..

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

So you might be thinking of getting a fast car then David?

rsquire

Oh .. and i can think of one little Blue & Yella Westie


THAT'LL KILL UUM

But then Not all Sevens are created equal ROFLMAO...

DavidBrown

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by rsquire:
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Mmmm Love to know exactly what they have done to reduce the weight by that amount..

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I think it's due to the aluminium chassis (like an Elise)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Puff:
<B>So you might be thinking of getting a fast car then David? [/quote]

I have a fast car <B>*somewhere*</B>

rsquire

MMmm Nice little GT3 Cars

The more I look at that site the more "iffy" the images look

chuckster

Squire...go to bed or go to work man!
Did you see that dude state you could get a 22B into the USA on the road for just $6k of red tape these days? Was on a bbs.22b thread...

rsquire

Chuck


I just got home from work :

Ican't believe that having spoken several times with the guy at the NHTSA that is THEE decision maker

chuckster

Thats sad , but I figured u'd be on top of it.
I'm after one of these plastic pigs now. Caterham is about 25 miles from home, going to visit them again Saturday.
But I really wanna bike engined one, just fancy the sequential shift
Chuck