Your biggest upgrade or downgrade?

[Haggisman]

1999 MK1 Focus 1.8 TDI (~90bhp) to a 1996 Legnum VR4 (~260bhp) after the Focus was written off.

Followed just over a year later by a switch to a 1999 Lolvo V40 1.8 petrol after my insurance went up from £800 to £3.5k...

 

[L0rdMike]

Biggest upgrade could be from FWD to RWD
Downgrade would be haviing torque to then having none.

 

[Liampope]

Hmmm biggest downgrade would be from a 4.2 Series 3 XJ6 into a 1.1 Peugeot 205. Then biggest upgrade would be from that to my previous car, a 3.0 Vauxhall Omega Elite.

 

[.Griff.]

Vauxhall Nova 1.2 Merit to a Renault 5 GTT. (It was a long time ago)

 

[rodenal]

LIST

I like that, will do mine but i'll only include cars i've had for more than a couple of months or I'll never be able to remember (can you spot the company cars!?) - These are from around 2004 on- It's not a glamorous list!

115
90 (-25)
110 (+20)
150 (+40)
115 (-35)
135 (+20)
115 (-20)
190 (+75)
173 (-17)
240 (+67)
260 (+20)
140 (-120)
130 (-10)
192 (+62)
140 (-52)
180 (+40)

 

[DGBVIPER]

110Bhp ep2 1.6 Civic to current Celica gt-four 272Bhp

 

[Minstadave]

First car: 59hp 1.0L 3 cylinder automatic Vauxhaull Corsa

Second car: 197hp 2.0T DSG Audi A3

 

[MOOGLEYS]

Astra GSI - Lotus Carlton - 306 D turbo.... Was a tad depressing...

 

[Soulja]

Corsa SXI 1.4 > Remapped focus ST.

 

[Puzzled]

In terms of power
Mx5 1.8iS mk2 --> ST220

In terms of actually noticing a considerable difference and made me feel I had really upgraded:
Focus 1.6 --> Mx5 1.8iS mk2

 

[Amos91]

Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 > Clio 182 FF

 

[tom_nieto]

MG-TF 135hp --> S2000 240hp
Haven't gained more seats or a roof unfortunately.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Biggest upgrade in power was an additional 92bhp - Mondeo 2.0 16v to BMW 530i Sport.

Biggest downgrade in power was my ownly downgrade in power - 306bhp BMW 335i M Sport to 232bhp BMW 530i Sport.

 

[Vigoro]

Upgrade from my 60hp clio to 133hp mx5 (which is now 174!)

 

[naefeart]

Vectra GSi 2.6 178bhp -> BMW M3 321bhp

BMW 330 231hp -> Evo 320bhp

Audi A4 QTS 210bhp -> M5 400bhp

M5 400bhp -> D3 211 bhp

Pretty much back where I started lol.

 

[wingman]

Toyota Aygo 1.0l --> E46 BMW 330i

 

[IvanDobskey]

My biggest upgrade was probably going from a rover 200 (100hp) to an MR2 turbo (220hp).

Biggest downgrade was from an MR2 turbo (220hp) to a ZX diesel (60hp)

Needed to save money after buying a house at the time...

 

[GT3]

Biggest performance upgrade despite lots of people claiming they are hardly any different was when I was 19 and went from a Saxo VTR to a Saxo VTS. Had MR2's, GTI-6's, rallyes etc since but nothing has seemed like a step up in performance like that did.

And biggest step down, well I'm currently driving round in a Peugeot 406 TD that in 1997 had 110bhp

 

[wez130]

86bhp (ibiza 1.2) -> 115bhp (mondeo tdci) -> 197bhp (A3 2.0t) -> 140bhp (mondeo 2.0) -> 177bhp (525D) -> 140bhp (A6 2.0tdi)

 

[koolpc]

New tyre....£45