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thank you, I know it doesn't compare to a bike. (divide by 1.6 if you must)

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I could say: bikes are slow!
how about 700Hp @ 14000rpm, 540Kg.
Performance??? Don't have the numbers but you could say it was adequate.

Is it road-legal though?

My specs as everyone else seems to be pork sword fencing.

Power: 150 hp (111.9kW) @ 10000 rpm
Torque: 108.3 Nm (79.9 ft.lbs) @ 8500 rpm
Dry weight: 175 kg (385.8 pounds)
Wet weight: 205.0 kg (451.9 pounds)
Top speed: 269.0 km/h (167.1 mph)
0-100 km/h (0-62 mph): 3.100 seconds
60-140 km/h (37-87 mph), highest gear: 6.900 seconds

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errr.... I'm sure we could find a friendly MOT centre

Is this the Caparo? (I think that's how you spell it.)

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no <does quick search> very interesting looking car that. Bet it won't be cheap.

Any other guesses?

Let me guess. Does it run out of road after about a half mile and need a parachute to stop?

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No, and it can even go around corners.

Nah, the fuel economy particularly was superb. Regularly got 400+ to a tankful even when giving it some welly. Oh did I mention a full tank cost 20 quid?

Diesels just don't have the image for sporty cars, which is a shame because they are extremely capable once you learn how to keep in the power band. Peak torque came at just 2,300 rpm - keeping it around this was key to maximising the performance! The beauty was you could put your foot down in it in 5th gear at 40mph and it would pull like a tank all the way up to 70+

All that tells me is that the car is geared unusually low, that aside it's nothing special.

Well, I can get the Rover to pull from 25mph in top - OK you have to be a bit gentle with the throttle up to about 35, but it'll do it... 40 to 70 is easy and it cruises at about 3k.

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£20 of diesel, at the current rate translates to 21 Litres.
21L / 4.545 = 4.6 UK gallons.
400 miles / 4.6 = 87mpg

Yet it originally gave 60mpg - when it wasn't 'heavily modified' for power!

Why should anyone take you seriously?

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This one sounds like another non-starter to me.

I won't bore everyone with the same old argument about a powerful car at 70mph requiring less revs and hence producing less CO2 than an underpowered car doing the same speed....

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As petrol/deisel prices have been mentioned.

Anyone notice how petrol is slowly creeping back to nearly £1 a litre. I filled up this morning and it was 95.9p/l. Is this because of increased duty or the price of a barrel?

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I noticed that locally petrol is currently more expensive than diesel (its usually a good couple of pence cheeper). I think maybe its as a delayed knock on effect of the silicone contamination problems.

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

Didn't our dear Chancellor quietly "harmonise" the duty on petrol up to diesel levels in the last budget?

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60mpg was the combined figure.

The standard car returns 80 mpg on the extra-urban cycle. I regularly exceeded this figure.

Severely delayed if at all. I remember that in the month after that debacle petrol was around 96.9p/l then it went back down to 93.9p/l.



That may have been so, pogo, but deisel was still a couple of pence cheaper at my local garage today.

Still confused as to why it's gone up by at least a couple of pence in the last week though.

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Most in Dorset & Hants seem to be the same or only a penny apart now.