What's the fastest car down a bumpy tight country road?
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If you live in the uk then you know that the limiting factor of your cars handling dynamics is the fact its bouncing up and down on all the small pebbles and imperfections on what's otherwise a great country road.
So what's the fastest car for £15k down a bumpy tight country road?
The most important factors are chassis dynamics and suspension tuning.
Examples of cars for that price is a 2010 audi s4, 2006 Porsche boxter 987, 2010 wrx sti, 2011 evo x......
So what's the fastest car for £15k down a bumpy tight country road?
The most important factors are chassis dynamics and suspension tuning.
Examples of cars for that price is a 2010 audi s4, 2006 Porsche boxter 987, 2010 wrx sti, 2011 evo x......
15k budget I would have to say the cheapest Caterham K Series you can find (12k ish probably) plus £3k on engine mods to get you as close to 200bhp as you can. (probably 170 ish being realistic for £3k). Can leave suspension and brakes etc stock good enough by a factor of 3. Sticky tyres will help too and not expensive as they run small wheels. There would be very little in the £15k price bracket that could keep up.
If you want a roof maybe an E60 M5 or modified WRX or something. Perhaps a bit left field would be a stripped C5 corvette. Magnetic dampers and lots of torque. 400/400 pretty easy to get with 350/350 stock.
If you want a roof maybe an E60 M5 or modified WRX or something. Perhaps a bit left field would be a stripped C5 corvette. Magnetic dampers and lots of torque. 400/400 pretty easy to get with 350/350 stock.
Depends on who's driving
I bet the majority of drivers would go fastest in a little non-threatening hot hatch. It should be turbo or supercharged so that you can get away with getting the odd gear wrong. LSD and sticky tyres. Minimal weight. Dunno who makes the best one at the moment but you get the idea. Maybe it's a fast Mini or something French.
I bet the majority of drivers would go fastest in a little non-threatening hot hatch. It should be turbo or supercharged so that you can get away with getting the odd gear wrong. LSD and sticky tyres. Minimal weight. Dunno who makes the best one at the moment but you get the idea. Maybe it's a fast Mini or something French.
HustleRussell said:
Depends on who's driving
I bet the majority of drivers would go fastest in a little non-threatening hot hatch. It should be turbo or supercharged so that you can get away with getting the odd gear wrong. LSD and sticky tyres. Minimal weight. Dunno who makes the best one at the moment but you get the idea. Maybe it's a fast Mini or something French.
This.I bet the majority of drivers would go fastest in a little non-threatening hot hatch. It should be turbo or supercharged so that you can get away with getting the odd gear wrong. LSD and sticky tyres. Minimal weight. Dunno who makes the best one at the moment but you get the idea. Maybe it's a fast Mini or something French.
I was going to suggest a beige 1.0 metro driven by an 18 year old - not sure how I made it to this age TBH, I look back and shudder slightly...
imahuman118 said:
So what's the fastest car for £15k down a bumpy tight country road?
Unless you have psychic powers or you're talking about imaginary closed roads, I'd suggest thinking about trying to go as fast as possible down tight, bumpy country roads is a recipe for life changing injuries.Something small, driven by somebody too young to care.
My fastest ever time on a 9 mile stretch of local country roads was in a 1984 XR2i. I was 19.
The two caveats are to do it in the dark, so you can see oncoming traffic even around a bend, and do it 30 years ago when there wasn't much oncoming traffic, and anything you did pass was also small.
My fastest ever time on a 9 mile stretch of local country roads was in a 1984 XR2i. I was 19.
The two caveats are to do it in the dark, so you can see oncoming traffic even around a bend, and do it 30 years ago when there wasn't much oncoming traffic, and anything you did pass was also small.
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