It’s Friday Junior, so I’m looking for any opportunity to take it easy. And blammo, there’s our pal Zerin of Speed Sport Life with a terrific Autopian Asks idea just there for the taking on his Twitter. I may go home early!
If someone said you have a budget of 1100 horsepower to spend on your fleet this is exactly how I’d spend it. ???? pic.twitter.com/iAohFdVnm5
— Zerin D (@SpeedSportLife) May 31, 2023
What a fun idea. You’ve got 1,100 horsepower to divvy up amongst as many vehicles as you like–or just one, I guess, but maybe you’ll have enough left over for at least a moped? It’s your call, you do whatever you like. Six Mazda Miatas? Sure thing, the math checks out. You want a Mustang GT, Mini Cooper S, Veloster N, and a Harley-Davidson Fatboy? Shoot, you’ll still have like a hundred horsepower left over! What about fourteen Mitsubishi Mirages? Uh … sure. No judgements, but many questions. Soooo many questions.
How would YOU spend 1,100 horsepower*? To the comments!
*Rollers do not count. They have to have a powertrain.
Since I have too many cars right now because of too many drivers in the household, I also have exceeded the 1100hp budget.
’79 MGB = 62.5HP
’08 STS = 320 HP
’21 RAM 1500 = 395 HP
’21 330e = 288HP
’23 Acadia =228HP
Total =1293.5HP
I think I need to re-examine my budget and change some things.
Do I count the lawn tractor if it has over 1/3 of the HP of the MGB?
> Acadia
I didn’t know anyone bought those
It’s a cheap lease for my son to take to college. It was the cheapest AWD vehicle lease I could find from GM (we get an employee discount and the total discount amount comes off the top of the lease price with GM). He goes to Michigan Tech and they get about 200 inches of snow a year, plus he’s driving 8 hours each way to school. I needed something he could get serviced easily without having to travel a few hours to a dealership, so it was GM, Ford, or Stellantis.
I have 1,126 HP in the garage right now. Not sure I’d change anything at all:
Fast with excellent handling (in a Boomer sort of way): C6 GS Convert- 436
Kinda fast with excellent handling in an Italian SUV: Stelvio Veloce- 280
Practical and powered by electricity only: Bolt EV-200
Beater gas hog with character and off-road chops: Jeep Liberty-210
Bases covered?
I had an exactly 1,100hp list picked out with a larger CAT skidder but no sailboat. I decided it was better to add the 40ft sailboat and go with a smaller skidder and come in just under budget at 1092.8hp.
So now that you’ve picked me as a winner of this contest where should I send the invoices for the above?
Alright, let’s get it going. A 997 Carrera at 360 horsepower for daily driving, keep my wife’s 2001 CR-V for her daily because she loves it, that’s another 150 horsepower. With the dailies and 510 horsepower out of the way, let’s get to the fun cars.
A Willys Interlagos Berlinetta at 70 horsepower for mountain roads, then a VW Brasilia at 65 for cruising. An NA Miata at 130hp for nostalgia, and a Formula Vee at 90hp for track days.
That adds another 355 horsepower for a full 865.
Then we can start playing with other vehicles. Let’s grab a Piper J3 Cub (with floats, please) at 150hp, a Honda NSR250 at 45 and an XR650 at 40, and we end up right on budget, if my math checks out.
Might sub the 997 for a 190E Cosworth and a Troller T4 to add some off-roading chops.
This has been the Capitão Slow collection with a little taste of Brazil.
997 Carrera S Cabriolet – 355hp
BMW Z4 coupe 3.0s – 265hp
Rav4 Prime – 302hp
Mazdaspeed Miata – 178hp
exactly 1100 hp
1,000 divided by 4 equals 275, which happens to be the exact horsepower figure of Studebaker-Packard’s supercharged V-8 for 1957. So I would be true to my username and get two 1957 Packard”s, both wagon and sedan, a 57 Studebaker Golden Hawk, and a 1958 Studebaker President hard top.
My kind of guy right here.
I would keep 3 cars I currently own
Jeep TJ – 190 hp
MGB – 95 hp
WRX – 265 hp
and add
Duesenberg SJ – 320 hp
7.3 L F250 210 hp
some sort of scooter – 20 hp
I’d buy twenty kei cars and one Caterham Super Seven with a 100hp Crossflow engine.
My current three cars’ combined rating is 313, which, coincidentally, is the license plate number on Donald Duck’s car. Some kind of cosmic joke on me, I am sure.
Sadly tallying up my myriad of cars of the years there’s barely 1100 horsepower so I don’t think I would know what do with all that..
86′ Chevy Celebrity, 112HP
84 Isuzu P’Up Diesel 58HP
91 Pontiac Sunbird 96HP
96 Dodge Neon 132HP
94 Ford Ranger 140HP
01 PT Cruiser 150HP (they were cool in 01!)
10 Dodge Charger 250HP
10 Chevy Volt 149HP
That’s most of the gas ones/hybrid ones, not counting the wife’s, and that’s only 1,087…., I have not truly lived….
So like I guess a F150 Lightning(563) and a Dodge Charger Scat Pack(485) gets to 1,048.
Ah the Chevy Celebrity. A car that no celebrity ever drove.
Oh man, I just did the same. 11 cars and a total of 1168 horsepower! I feel that I have lived well.
’87 Chevrolet Turbo Sprint – 70hp
’87 Peugeot 505 Turbo S – 150hp
’91 Jeep Wrangler (2.5) – 119hp
’02 Mazda Protégé5 – 130hp
’84 Toyota Tercel 4WD – 63hp
’87 Chevrolet Turbo Sprint – 70hp (yes, I have had two)
’93 Volvo 240 – 113hp
’07 Suzuki SX4 – 143hp – surely overstated!
’93 Honda Today – 47hp (48PS)
’03 Ford Focus Wagon – 130hp
’96 Toyota Caldina TZ – 133hp (135PS)
Here we go.1098 total hp
Stick with the 2007 911, but bump it to an S: 355hp
E34 M5 for when I have passengers: 360hp
My wife can’t give up her 2021 GTI: 228hp
Lastly, the answer is always Miata, (a 2018 to stay in the limit): 155hp
15 Honda Insight Gen 1 lol
My rough calculations suggest i could have 17 Kei cars.
Only the fast ones have 64PS (that’s 63 imperial hp). If you stick to non-turbo ones they tend to hover around 40-50hp.
I’ll take the following please:
One 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman S: 350hp
An original Citroën 2CV Sahara: 24hp
A 2023 Toyota Landcruiser 70 Series V8 Diesel (I’ll need a support vehicle when off-roading that Citroën): 203hp
The Fiat S76 (aka “The Beast of Turin”): 290hp
I suppose I should get something practical as the daily runabout, so how about a Chevy Bolt: 200hp
IDK man, that’ll cover a crap-ton of 914s.
You need a V8 in at least one of them. Maybe an EV conversion of one and one with a turbodiesel too.
okay, but counterpoint: four Type 4 engines combined into one gigantic flat-sixteen
A steam conversion would only set you back about 30-40 horsepower, if Jay Leno’s fleet is any indication. And you’d get about eleventy shitbillion torques in return.
And facial reconstruction surgery
Look, if I’m going for quantity, the wonderful 26-horsepower Trabant is right there.
So the current fleet is the following:
BMW Z4 3.0i (231hp)
Honda Civic Type R (201hp)
Renault Clio 2 1.2 (60hp)
Datsun 280Z (150hp … At the moment)
That gives us 643hp, so I still have a healthy budget of 457hp, which means I can get an Aston Martin DB9 (455hp) for laugh cruises and an electric scooter!
1989 Turbo TA- 250 hp
1973 Super Duty TA – 290 HP
1965 Buick Rivera 425 GS – 360
So, so many ancient hatchbacks. And one Countach
I started to try to justify each one of these but then realized most of them are not justifiable but I still love them and want them anyways.
In descending horsepower order:
1. 2023 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid (218hp)
2. 1966 Mercedes 230SL (148hp)
3. 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Super (110hp)
4. 1948 Delahaye Model 135 Cabriolet (110hp)
5. 1984 Jeep Grand Wagoneer (110hp)
6. 1950 Tatra 87 (85hp)
7. 1997 Mitsubishi Pajero Mini (63hp)
8. 1959 Citroen DS ID9 (60hp)
9. 1997 Renault Twingo (60hp)
10. 1955 Porsche 356 (59hp)
11. 1931 Ford Model A Coupe (40hp)
12. 1988 Citroen 2CV (29hp)
13. 2020 Citroen Ami (8hp)
And that should be all 1100hp.
Some absolute gems on this list, I really should have started with lower horsepower options. The Ami is barrels (well, thimblefuls) of fun, and you can’t go wrong with a 356.
Excellent shipping spree!
1, ’91 Acura NSX (270 HP), as an actual rational choice for regular cruising.
2, ’72 BMW 2002 (130 HP), to be used as my track day car wherever and whenever.
[ Why not a Miata? I… don’t know. ]
3, ’92 BMW 850i (296 HP), for the times if I feel angsty enough to risk breaking down, for sheer and unfiltered thrill.
4, ’85 BMW M5 (286 HP), because I have to fill my BMW lineup with something that isn’t an M3.
And 5, ’65 Alfa Giulia GTC (105 HP), if it’s the perfect day for driving out and all my fellow car guys aren’t working.
Yes, I have 13 HP left. Yes, It’d be turned into a motorized snowblower.
Problem?
On second thought, I too want to replace the 850i with a Toronado.
What
I was looking for mdharrel (Prof with the microcars: sorry if I got your name wrong there!) to chime in with a list somewhere between 40 & 70 cars long—bet there’d be some interesting stuff on it.
Always wanted something with a 1:10 hp to weight ratio, so an Hawkeye STI tuned to around 350hp, then a beat-to-shit, lifted XJ on 37s with a fuel-injected stroker 4.6. Around 500hp there. That leaves me 250 for Morris Minors, 2CVs, early air-cooled VWs and such fun oddnes
If you don’t have to keep the fleet long term, I was thinking Pagani Huayra Tricolore ($6.7M for 829hp) as a trade in to use later, leaving me with 271 hp in my budget so I guess I’ll spend it all on a 65 mustang also to trade in later. Then I realized the AMG GT one is ~1000hp, so I’ll simply ask for that, and be happy with it, and keep it forever(ish).
…On the flip side, I’m already parking constrained preventing me from taking on any other project cars, and don’t want to move away from my area, so I could probably swing a deal to trade the Pagani to get a ~$2-3M modest building built with an ostentatious 8 car garage in the back (2 deep, 4 wide with 4 lifts in the back spots), plus something plebian like a Koenigsegg Jesko, and I suppose I’d be able to trade the mustang for a Pajero Evo which was 5HP over my budget.
You guys are thinking to literally. the most valuable car in the world (Mercedes 300SLR) has about 310hp from 2 seconds of research and I’d take 3 of them and sell them for 100 Million each. Plus I get a free ND Miata 30th Anniversary, Then I’d buy a Veyron SuperSport just to say fuck you to the guy who limited me.
Oh shit. my daily driver already uses up 575 and my Silverado uses up another 260 or so. I guess I’ll go shopping for a Hudson.
Swap out Mustang GT for a GT350 – 526hp
Swap out Mach E for a Mach E GT – 480hp
Keep the Cooper S – 189hp
Crap, I’m 95hp over. Oh dear.
28 CV2s
I’ll take 37 2CVs