Firefly625
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Well I got one right..
Bad Petrol from Petrol Stations - Yeah Right
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MrB
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Firefly nailed it. I always wanted a Skyline R34 GTR to the point I have a 1/18 replica model sitting on the top of my pc right now! My reasoning behind my choices were that the Hennessey Dodge Hellcat HPE850 was 852 BHP and the Koenigsegg one:1 was 852bhp per tonne**. Cool car, thanks for posting the data. 
** Taken from here for reference. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/koenigsegg/one1-2015-2016
** Taken from here for reference. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/koenigsegg/one1-2015-2016
Firefly625
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the fact remains there are a few boaty related comments in this thread so I hope it wont be sent to the abyss of the lounge...
I've slowed down, no longer have a desire for neck snapping acceleration, but prefer cars that waft along effortlessly, but my slightly older brother who is obviously going through some midlife issues (well he hasn't got a boat so needs to spend his money on something), has a new NSX... now launch control on that is something to be believed.
I've slowed down, no longer have a desire for neck snapping acceleration, but prefer cars that waft along effortlessly, but my slightly older brother who is obviously going through some midlife issues (well he hasn't got a boat so needs to spend his money on something), has a new NSX... now launch control on that is something to be believed.
Anders_P42
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Firefly nailed it. I always wanted a Skyline R34 GTR to the point I have a 1/18 replica model sitting on the top of my pc right now! My reasoning behind my choices were that the Hennessey Dodge Hellcat HPE850 was 852 BHP and the Koenigsegg one:1 was 852bhp per tonne**. Cool car, thanks for posting the data.
R34's are a classic, out of my price range when you could but them new. Held their values really well...so have the R35s.
The Koenigsegg it's nuts, close to 1200bhp! Quite like the Zonda F too.
Anders_P42
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I saw the NSX at SIBS, great colour.
GrahamHR
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Shell ran a promotion once; their high performance fuel ( Optimax ?) for the same price as standard UK unleaded, so I had 2 tankfulls ( less than 10"% in the tank before filling each time). I honestly found no difference in performance or mpg ( that was a
with a Mondeo ST220, a supposedly high performance car).
Since then I filled up an almost empty Volvo V60 Polestar with the same premium fuel; no difference to standard Shell fuel.
Assassin
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Times have changed as have fuels and now many manufacturers of high performance vehicles use the fuels in their designs of current updated, or newly designed engines to give the best performance from that engine as figures appear to have some kudos among petrolheads. Fuel is now so important in the design of an engine that it ranks alongside the induction system in importance, the real issue is how the fuel is used and it is now common in F1 engines for the fuel to dilute the engine oil and burn the mixture of fuel and engine oil for increased performance which means that the engine oil has to be to a specific quality and specification to allow it to be diluted and burned so it remains within emissions limits currently in force, and this technology is already being used in two new engines currently in the design stages for two supercar models to be released in the near future.