Which is quickest?

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My mates just bought an RX8 231ps, I've got a Golf VR6.
We've just taken them out now for a blast (private track of course).

So we both started, rolling start at 30mph, straight road and floored it, which was quickest up to about 125mph?
 
Firstly this isn't a look how fast my car can go thread, 0-60 in around 7 secs is far from lightning and up against an Impreza or something I'd get wasted.

You see a lot of which would be quickest threads and people speculating so I thought I'd post an actual result.

I think driver skill is to a minimum as I know the other driver well and we both drove the cars from a rolling start.

His car is 3 years old and has 30k

My Golf is a 1996 model, I didn't realise there was any difference in BHP apart from OBD-l and OBDll models and the bhp was still the same?

Nickg has a good point and that could affect things but anyway the result was..

They were exactly the same, not the slightest difference.
He went first in one direction and then we turned round and came back in the other direction with me in front. Both times the distance stayed exactly the same.

I've driven his car and tbh it felt about the same speed wise as mine but with it being newer and smoother I presumed that it just felt slower than it actually was.
 
the problem with the 231 RX8 is the torque is too low and you have to rev the guts out of it to get the best. So off standing its not at its best.
 
smelf1 said:
RX8 is the torque is too low .
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well in fairness that's just the cars balance, it doesnt need torque due to the engines high revs and low weight. besides its the gearbox that gives you most of the usable torque. but yeah there engines you have to rev, dont get me wrong there quick and i like them but sometimes to go quick in them is a fair bit of work.
 
chipperhead said:
They were exactly the same, not the slightest difference.
He went first in one direction and then we turned round and came back in the other direction with me in front. Both times the distance stayed exactly the same.

I've driven his car and tbh it felt about the same speed wise as mine but with it being newer and smoother I presumed that it just felt slower than it actually was.
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its interesting because if the distance stayed exactly the same, then the car at the back is actually going faster than the car in front (accel wise.)

because if the gap was 0.5s or whatever to begin with, this would mean that to maintain a gap of 0.5 secs @ 30mph, @ 60mph and 90+mph the cars must have gotten further apart on the road.

but yea it just goes to show that performance ~ 180-230bhp isnt that mkuch different on the road.
 
Nickg said:
its interesting because if the distance stayed exactly the same, then the car at the back is actually going faster than the car in front (accel wise.)
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I assume he meant same distance as in 1 car length before booting, 1 car length 100mph later :p
 
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