Why 197bhp?

Stonedofmoo · 11 Jan 2006 at 15:19

Something else I thought of the other day, so many performance cars clock in at 197bhp. Why is that, why not 200bhp?

Is there some sort of agreement in place, or is it to do with taxes or something weird, or perhaps because car manufactuers normally quote in ps?

Examples off the top of my head include

Civic Type-R
VW Golf GTI (New one)
Rover Coupe Turbo and probably the other 2 litre turbo's too
Vauxhall VX220
Vauxhall Astra SRI

Probably a lot of others too but they spring too mind.

Stonedofmoo · 11 Jan 2006 at 15:27

lol, but isnt that really annoying for UK customers

I'd be annoyed knowing I Was 3bhp short of the magic 200bhp figure. Why dont they extract the extra 3bhp for the book figure

I mean to get into the 200bhp club you all have to get a rolling road print out with a slight tune lol

Stonedofmoo · 11 Jan 2006 at 18:09

2) There's no 200bhp club

Could have fooled me, I wonder what I pay £20 to be in each year then?

http://www.200plusclub.co.uk/

Whats that word?
'owned'? lol

Stonedofmoo · 12 Jan 2006 at 15:11

They should upgrade it to the 300 Plus club tbh. Loads of people have 200bhp these days, it's really not a special figure

Stonedofmoo · 13 Jan 2006 at 07:27

lol, well if thats what you want on your window stickers thats your business