Quick Mazda 6 - Not an MPS

[simoid]

Forgot to ask a few weeks ago

I was behind what I thought was a boggo family saloon, going out of Dundee, up the big hill with all the roundabouts etc, northbound, in my Clio.

Expected to have no trouble blasting past a porky car with 120 or so bhp, once we'd cleared the last roundabout. It was badged TS, but it was almost pulling away from me up to the speed limit! Must be 200bhp+ methinks, but looked totally cooking spec.

Anybody on here baiting 'Hot' Hatches with their Mazda 6!?

[S2red]

2.5l 175bhp? or 2.2d 180bhp 300lb ft torque?

Edited by S2red on Wednesday 21st November 08:15

[simoid]

Well, potentially yes.

I'm sure it had only one skinny exhaust though, and I'd expect it would need a fair amount more power than my 180 horses to begin to pull away up a hill!

For the sake of my manhood, I'm going to have to assume it was a totally disguised MPS

[chunkymonkey71]

simoid said:

Well, potentially yes.

I'm sure it had only one skinny exhaust though, and I'd expect it would need a fair amount more power than my 180 horses to begin to pull away up a hill!

For the sake of my manhood, I'm going to have to assume it was a totally disguised MPS

Ah.. but it's not the power that shoves you up a hill, it's the torque!

[S2red]

I had a 300lb ft Vauxhall which could shift when in sweet spot

[GreigM]

TS is just the trim level. It was most likely one of the diesels - tons of torque, the bhp figure is almost irrelevant, probably only had around 140bhp.

[MarkRSi]

S2red said:

2.2d 180bhp 300lb ft torque?

Remapped?

[scz4]

MarkRSi said:

S2red said:

2.2d 180bhp 300lb ft torque?

Remapped?

Nope, standard. Father in law has one.

[simoid]

scz4 said:

MarkRSi said:

S2red said:

2.2d 180bhp 300lb ft torque?

Remapped?

Nope, standard. Father in law has one.

Bit more than Autotrader's figures suggest

[phoenixz]

simoid said:

Bit more than Autotrader's figures suggest

use Parkers, its more accurate

[scz4]

180PS technically The 2.2D comes with a few tunes, 180ps is the highest. His is a sport, not sure if the TS was available with 180ps or not. I think the next one down was around 163ps. Then 2.0 at 140 something.

http://www.arnoldclark.com/nearly-new-cars/mazda/6...

Edited by scz4 on Thursday 22 November 16:27

Edited by scz4 on Thursday 22 November 16:27

[MarkRSi]

scz4 said:

MarkRSi said:

S2red said:

2.2d 180bhp 300lb ft torque?

Remapped?

Nope, standard. Father in law has one.

If that's stock, what can they be remapped to?

[westtra]

MarkRSi said:

If that's stock, what can they be remapped to?

Quick google suggests 400nm up to 485nm of torque and 185 to 220ps

[simoid]

westtra said:

Quick google suggests 400nm up to 485nm of torque and 185 to 220ps

Must've been that to keep my wee Clio at bay

[westtra]

simoid said:

Must've been that to keep my wee Clio at bay

I have an unmapped Mazda 6 sport and its surprises quite a few people how quick in a straight line they are.

[gofasterrosssco]

Had a similar thing on that up hill bit of road leaving Dundee. I was in a ~340bhp MR2 at the time (although taking it relatively easy at the time due to an intermittent misfire), and headed up the hill with a reasonable squirt, only to find a newish shape Civic stuck to me.. I pushed a little harder, and again the Civic was still there... Backed off at about warp factor 9.0, and because the misfire was back..

Anyway, I'm pretty sure it was the diesel version of that car, and no doubt had ~300lb/ft torque...

[simoid]

Those diesel trolls must just wait for a lower torque petrol motor to come along and reel them in at the big uphill stretch

[MidnightXR6]

Ill stick with my 500+ ftlbs of torque

[gofasterrosssco]

simoid said:

Those diesel trolls must just wait for a lower torque petrol motor to come along and reel them in at the big uphill stretch

But that MR2 (turbo) had +300lb/ft torque to play with, and would no doubt have left it if I really put the foot down, but I was restricted to around 4.5k rpms (effectively a diesel ) and couldn't properly open the taps so to speak.. However I was not accelerating slowly though!

[skene]

I kept up with and overtook an EP3 Type R on that very stretch.

In my Vectra CDTi, the driver looked like he wanted to cry