Production car records
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Le Grand Illusion
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Production car records
I'm curious about records for production cars:
for example - what's the lowest redline of any production car you know about? The lowest I can think of is the Cadillac Allante's 4.1L V8 which maxed out at 4750 RPM.
Or the heaviest car? Not counting trucks or buses, etc., I think the heaviest I know of is the Mercedes-Benz Type 770 Grosser - which weighed in at roughly 8000 pounds (!) in a car with 230 hp in supercharged form.
Lightest car? The lightest I know is the Lotus Elite from the 50s, weighing in at just 1200 lbs.
Other questions I'm curious about - most expensive/ least expensive? Largest and smallest engines? Largest and smallest production runs? etc. etc. Any interesting statistic you can think of is welcome!
for example - what's the lowest redline of any production car you know about? The lowest I can think of is the Cadillac Allante's 4.1L V8 which maxed out at 4750 RPM.
Or the heaviest car? Not counting trucks or buses, etc., I think the heaviest I know of is the Mercedes-Benz Type 770 Grosser - which weighed in at roughly 8000 pounds (!) in a car with 230 hp in supercharged form.
Lightest car? The lightest I know is the Lotus Elite from the 50s, weighing in at just 1200 lbs.
Other questions I'm curious about - most expensive/ least expensive? Largest and smallest engines? Largest and smallest production runs? etc. etc. Any interesting statistic you can think of is welcome!
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there was only 75,000 of my 1978 Cutlass Calais made, that was a pretty small production car.
smallest production car ever made ive been told was the CRX, smallest currently available new is the Mini.
smallest production car ever made ive been told was the CRX, smallest currently available new is the Mini.
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Originally posted by Fujiwara Takumi
there was only 75,000 of my 1978 Cutlass Calais made, that was a pretty small production car.
smallest production car ever made ive been told was the CRX, smallest currently available new is the Mini.
there was only 75,000 of my 1978 Cutlass Calais made, that was a pretty small production car.
smallest production car ever made ive been told was the CRX, smallest currently available new is the Mini.
and the original mini was smaller than a crx.
Most expensive as far as i know is the Ferrari 250 GTO. As far as cheapest i'm sure there are some russian cars that could set that record.
Shortest production run could be the McLaren F1 LM edition, i think there were only 3 of those (and those were street cars, the bright orange ones)
Highest redline in a car is possibly the Caterham model with the Hayabusa engine in it, don't remember exactly the name of it
That's all i can think of for now