top speeds

[Nick Bryant]

so what you saying youve got to have a 3.6ltr straight 6 engine, 24v, twin garrett t25 turbos and 6 gears to do 175mph because if thats the case then weve got no hope in the mr2 its only a 2ltr with 1 turbo

[liberty]

The key element here is that you had 233bhp, the Lotus Carlton has about 380!

[Nick Bryant]

it had a quaiffe 5 speed no lsd

[Nick Bryant]

all that means is that the lotus carlton will get there quicker right

[Dangerous]

No the key element is you could gear any car to do 200mph if you had enough power to pull it and enough room ( I.E a fookin long straight road !)

[liberty]

Look you 100 million % won't reach similar top end speeds to a Lotus Carlton in a 233bhp Fiesta.

Like someone has suggested, speedo may say that, but you wouldn't be going that fast. 150 sounds about right.

[Nick Bryant]

ok fair enough comment

[liberty]

Shoulda had a laser test done m8!

[Nick Bryant]

whatever i was doing it was fookin quick and scarey thats not the best time to think to yourself i wonder what would happen if i had a blow out

[Dangerous]

Theoretically he probably could IF it was geared correctly,
But like I said earlyer, what your speedo says and what your doing is a different matter. the only way to tell how fast he was going is to find out what the final drive ratio of the gearbox was and times it by how many rpm,s he was doing........

Whos really bothered anyway is was only a f**kin fiesta ......!

CHILL out

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[Nick Bryant]

EXACTLY

[Barney]

Yeah, but the point is a Flipping Fast fiesta

[blue2]

I got 180mph out of my 2.0 gti plenty left too

[Quigonjay]

suni kalsar (or whatever his name is - never seen it written down so prob completely wrong spelling) in his 380ish bhp fiesta only managed 172 at TOTB
Jay

[SwissHeavy]

209mph..... but oh wait! That wasn't in a 2! Hehehe, any guesses?

PS I wasn't the crazy guy driving it!

[Sidewinder]

209mph..... but oh wait! That wasn't in a 2! Hehehe, any guesses?

A plane? Or a Fiesta?

[senie]

i may be passing 200 soon. i have a client that will hopefully be taking me out in his cars as he has realised im a petrol head and he HAS the cars (GT40, SL65 AMG, 355 Sp, 360 Sp, 2x XJ220, Zonda).

His garage alone is about 4 times the size of my house!

[Alex_Dunn]

ive been in a tuscan doin 175mph then a roundabout came up (i wasent driving)

[SwissHeavy]

It was a red..... very tasty.... very very light..... Ferrari F40! This car just pips the McLaren F1 for me in my all time fave super cars, but then that's probably cos I've actually been in one!