GaryC

Following an (pitiful) alchohol fuelled discussion after the football last night, we looked at 'bang per buck' but using bhp/ton (ie best simple measure of performance) and came up with the following.

Lowest score means least 'buck per bang', or pound per grin

MY99/00 - 167bhp/ton £21k - BHP/TON/£ = 125
MY01 - 155/ton £21500 - 138 = 138
Clio 172 - 154bhp/ton £16000 = 103
P1 - 214bhp/ton £31500 = 147
Ferrari 360 - 276bhp/ton £105000 = 380
Ferrari 550 - 283bhp/ton £150000 = 530
911 GT3 - 266bhp/ton £70000 = 263
911 turbo - 267bhp/ton £85000 = 318
Mclaren F1 - 522bhp/ton £500000 = 957
Caterham R500 - 535bhp/ton £30k - 56

Anything (on 4 wheels) beat the R500.

.... I'll get my coat

Robertio

iTrader: (1)

An R1 with stabilisers

I'm (fairly) sure the bike engined Caterham has almost the same power to weight ratio, but is cheaper,so probably it.

fast bloke

A pair of those motorised roller blades - cost 30 quid. 1 BHP, weigh about .002 tons. If my calculations are correct you get 500 BHP/ton and a score of 0.06.

bdrought

Shumacher do a radio controlled car with about 980bhp/ton (2.1bhp!). Cost of £250 puts that at 3.92.

Bri

Davvers

R500 is an awesome car!
JohnFs westie would beat it I think on your calculation, its certainly faster in a straight line, if not around corners :-0

Jza

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Davvers:
<B>R500 is an awesome car!
JohnFs westie would beat it I think on your calculation, its certainly faster in a straight line, if not around corners :-0[/quote]

When its working

Jza

matt d

The R500 is 500bhp/tonne hence the name, and costs £34k not £30k AFAIK = £68 per bhp/tonne

Including the driver means it is now 435bhp/tonne, giving a score of 78.

The Caterham Fireblade is £17k (less if you build it yourself) and weighs about 470kg including driver, with 130bhp giving a score of around 62.