Don’t be so disappointed that you aren’t the Alpha male

But challenge some of these so called “alpha males” with the powerful cars to a race, and you’ll be surprised how quickly they shrivel up.

Some of the fastest lads I know drive Vauxhalls and Fords.

Skoda Fabia 59bhp.

So that’s a total of 59bhp!

I drive a Ford, he’s talking about me

😀

I drive a Ford too – he’s not talking about me 😉

It’s not surprising households have more than one car, that makes up a lot of horsepower if you add them together (like mine)

I wonder what we’d do if we had to rely on just one vehicle per household..

Skoda Fabia 59bhp.

Why would anyone buy a 59bhp car? It’s got to be more painful than walking, surely?

Hairdryer, 1.5hp.

Mine 184bhp, hers 184bhp so a nice round 368bhp all in.

In days gone by it would’ve been, mine 234bhp hers 100bhp but mine was a NA 1800cc Honda 😆

250ish

My Exeo – 170
My Wife’a Astra 80, or was, maybe 50 now, it’s not well.

I’m after something a bit faster next time and petrol, I’ve been living on scraps for years.

Vicinity of 185 in the car (old dyno run, it’s had some new bits since then, some of which probably cost power)
80 in the bike (if it still goes, hasn’t moved in a couple of years)

Vauxhall Zafira 1.6 petrol , so not a lot . 70 ?

I drive a Ford too – he’s not talking about me

Yours is a pick-up!

148, 2 cars.

‘Fast is a foreign country. They do things differently there.’

365 bhp 2 cars

We’ve just got a new hoover, it’s 1400W, that very nearly 2 horsepower! In a hoover! No wonder the world is so energy hungry!

(Cars: i3 170bhp, 335 300bhp, Seat 600 odd, so call it 1072 for the family when we are hoovering….. 😉

Bus 204 viano
Car 225 t5
Bike 1 132 4xv
Bike 2 45 gs500
Bike 3 7 (seven) c90
613bhp
I left out non road stuff

Honda 160
Piaggio 4
164bhp…

110 hp on a citroen C5 (it will do 80 all day fully loaded)
1.2 clio (70?)
21 year old son has an A6 (180 hp) he wanted to chip it but I asked why as it can do 140 mp/h
I don’t see the reason a lot of people obsess about this.

Car 88bhp
Van 190bhp
Bike 1 120bhp
Bike 2 12bhp

All in all 410bhp

I have had cars with more than that 😀 I must be getting respectable in my old age!

170hp-ish from the car, and whatever decimal of a horsepower a 170kg deadlift translates into for me. haha

Vito 120 – 204
BMW 520d – 180
Duc 1098s – 160
Duc 748 – 100
GasGas EC 300 – 50
GasGas EC 300 – 45

About 740 all in. Why I oughta!

My car – 450 hp
Wife’s car – 125 hp

Total 575 hp

Car 184bhp or something like that
Bike 180bhp

About 100 for the car
50-ish for OH’s track bike
70-ish for his road bike
30-ish for my track bike

250-ish all in. Ish.

I’m the least alpha you could imagine, but I’m at 921…
Cars:
478
260
180
Lawnmower 3

2 – me when I was being chased by two mutts this morning.

Berlingo – 68 bhp

Land rover 200 TDI – 114bhp

Iveco motorhome – 116bhp

Suzuki mx125 lawnmower 5hp

Bafang BBS electric bike 1hp

Still less bhp than some folk have in one car.

Most of those cars wouldn’t sound quite so ‘impressive’ if you quoted bhp per ton :).

A car it goes along and several legs used for cycling ang punny arms for kayaking

Cars:750
Navara v6
Audi tt tdi
Porsche cayman

Nowt to do with Willys .I just like cars 😉

1057 bhp 😀

M6 – 507 (when it works)
M135i – mapped to 380
Golf gt tdi – 170

I don’t have a girlfriend. I think I love DTF…

Just calculated it 1139!

4 cars (200/258/265/412) and a 4hp lawnmower

712 in total.
Skoda-170
Jag-238
Focus-115
Toy 1-80
Toy 2-105
Mower-4

Well that’s taken the jam outta my doughnut tony!

142..

Octy tdi = 140
Lawn mower = 2

Vroom and vroom..

(One car household..)

DrP

Flange – 3 cars on your own though!

My E39 530i 231
Wife’s ML320 220
A4 workhorse 130

Daily company vehicle 2x 65 litre V16 4500hp

Why would anyone buy a 59bhp car? It’s got to be more painful than walking, surely?

Short version:

We all have different priorities.

Long version:

It does 75mph comfortably all day (French Autoroutes), does 50mpg most of the time, is comfy and had A/C. I’m rarely the slowest thing on the road either! I’ve had cars with 300+bhp before and while it’s fun I prefer the more relaxed driving of less power these days, the roads are that busy and potholed that it’s hard to enjoy a good blast these days. It’s also more fun hustling it along a B-road trying to carry as much momentum as possible than point-and-squirt in a big, powerful car.

My BMW 435d 315
Wife’s Freelander 2 190
Son’s Honda Civic 115
Lawnmower 5
Strimmer 1

who’s car on this thread is fastest? Any stats?

0-60 in 4.7 seconds any good?