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dunno, look at the power a 999cc Yaris kicks out (70hp) or the latest of the 699cc Smart coupe/roadster engines (similar). that's conventional 1.4 or even 1.6 territory (discounting the 1275 punto / 1272 polo gt with 75hp apiece etc lol )

never mind the GTi you should see the needle plummet in the 'tray when i give it full boot... you'd swear it was putting out three times the power its actually got (or that you can feel). Damn!

Going by the difference on the guage, I think I used a good couple gallons tear-arsing* the 10 miles into work when i overslept a bit yesterday... lol... oh to be back in the 1.0 where 29.5mpg meant you had caned the very underpants from it's backside

* never mind tearing your arse, i nearly brown trousered (and blood-upholstered) when the grip started giving out on the overpass and tunnel corners... talk about "no feedback or warning at all"

How fast are those little smart car roadsters, im sure one of them was trying to have a go at me this morning on the way back from my gf's flat!

Phill.

Horse Power: 101
0-60 MPH: 9.80 s
Combined fuel consumption 53.30 MPG

MY GOD not bad!

Phill.

When I set fire to the car last year I was expecting it to get wrote off.
I wouldnt have been able to bring myself into buying another Loop so took one of these for a days test drive.
What a car.
Best handleing car Ive ever drivn.
So well ballanced its just pure flat out driving.
One of our members has a Bradbus (sp?) roadster.
These are proppa monsters.
£18k though!!

101bhp @ 5250rpm and 130Nm torque form 2500-4500rpm all from a 698 cc
kerb weight of 852kg gives 119bhp/ton and a more impressive 153Nm/ton torque.

0-60 would be about 2 seconds quicker if it wasn't for the silly gearbox!


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Engine would fit inside a shoe box

over a hundred brake horse power, size of a small dog, yet only to 60 in 9.8 im suprised

the general road-tester consensus is that it would have been FAR better with a proper superbike sequential shift (or even a regular H-gate) than the smart coupe semi-auto job ... which, after all, was made for super smooth city shifting, not high speed twitch-shifts.

considering how low, small and light it is, even a 1043 would see that thing scampering off like a singed terrier. 100 horses puts it into oldskool Lotus Elan kind of maths - in fact its more like a boil washed Elise (if such a thing is possible - i half imagine the result would be nothing more than very slightly dirty water and a faint whiff of carbon dust).

would very much like one (looks the business too - used to be one parked outside the hospital station every day, damn but it was nice even in factory spec).....

i used to have a mk2 polo 1l, bin round the clock, and i s**t u not it spun the tyres in... get this 3RD GEAR!!!! 3rd gear it was rapid and before u ask it was standard and 1l

lol but how crap were the tyres and how wet/oily the road?
i've had 2nd gear burnouts on greasy junctions a few times

what ive just noticed and am wondering..... how can a tiny 2 seat roadster, made seemingly from coke bottle plastic, with that engine, still weigh as much as a mk2 polo?

ok the road was a bit 'dusty' but i was still well impressed with it MEAN AS HELL SQUAREBACK to much

LOL go you

i mean that in the best possible way, too... i cant help but be smiley at the moment