Power to weight ratio of your car?

Been driving a rather smart 730BHP Scania recently, pulling a regular 13m tri- axle trailer I'm upto the dizzy heights of 16.59BHP/Ton @ 44tons.

But below 10BHP/Ton @ 78t abnormal loads, which is what it's primarily used for!


So, no overall improvement then! :D
 
Polo 9N 1.2

1100KG

53.6HP

48.7 BHP/Tonne

:D

(Same as the 50 BHP/Tonne one already near the bottom of the list - the actual output of the "55HP" Polo's is 53.6HP.)
 
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2010 Focus ST-3 with various upgrades - ballpark figure for weight and power as it's not been weighed or run on a dyno.

Power 320 bhp

Weight 1400Kg

228bhp/tonne or so.
 
Cut a load of weight out of the beetle, and tbh must have estimated the weight before as was weighed at 787kgs actually making it 264.3 bhp/t (sorry)
But..
Car is now 712.5 kgs so is 291.9 bhp/t

Also I'll update again soon, as I'm doing some mods to the engine, which should up its bhp considerably :D
 
BMW 330D xDrive

Manufacturer claims...
Weight: 1685kg
Power: 258BHP

Soo... 153BHP/ton

Not that impressive really, luckily the performance comes from the torque, 4WD and gearing.
 
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PMKeates said:
The performance in every vehicle comes from the torque and the gearing?
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Unsure if you're being sarcastic or otherwise?

Performance comes from many factors, so a willy-waving BHP/ton is pretty moot unless you somehow develop some way to represent gearing, torque, drive systems etc.

Oh wait, we do, it's called 0-60 times :rolleyes:
 
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