It read like English to me. I don't speak German, so if it was, it's a damn miracle I understood a word of it.
Aren't ze Germans supposed to be using kw, though?
It read like English to me. I don't speak German, so if it was, it's a damn miracle I understood a word of it.
Aren't ze Germans supposed to be using kw, though?
It's a UK story, so they use their common power term.
And technically the EU is suppose to use kW. I believe it's a legal requirement and that PS or HP can only be a secondary unit.
Of cause that does stop it being used in media or even sales stuff (or picking a model name)
Quick look at some UK car sites, they seem to go with kW (hp)
Eg Porsche Boxter 232 kW (315 hp) at 6,700 rpm
Or the .de version 232 kW (315 PS) bei 6.700 1/min
So Porsche don't seem to care, they say "hp" rather than bhp and use the metric hp.
Anyway it's just a model number.
Tits.
Love the practicality and the power -- although the 2014 GT-R will do 0-60 MPH in 2.9 seconds, so I guess that means no buy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepo...2C_ks.2C_ch.29
The various units used to indicate this definition (PS, cv, hk, pk, ks and ch) all translate to horse power in English, so it is common to see these values referred to as horsepower or hp in the press releases or media coverage of the German, French, Italian, and Japanese automobile companies. British manufacturers often intermix metric horsepower and mechanical horsepower depending on the origin of the engine in question. Sometimes the metric horsepower rating of an engine is conservative enough so that the same figure can be used for both 80/1269/EEC with metric hp and SAE J1349 with imperial hp.
DIN 66036 defines one metric horsepower as the power to raise a mass of 75 kilograms against the earth's gravitational force over a distance of one metre in one second;[14] this is equivalent to 735.49875 W or 98.6% of an imperial mechanical horsepower.
In 1972, the PS was rendered obsolete by EEC directives, when it was replaced by the kilowatt as the official power measuring unit.[15] It is still in use for commercial and advertising purposes, in addition to the kW rating, as many customers are still not familiar with the use of kilowatts for engines.
At 50K, that's more like FJ440. Unless you need 4WD and a boot, at that price it's Cayman S, there you go... or even an STI hatch and a used 911.
I've done the STI hatch m8. It blew up within 20,000 miles. Wouldn't touch another EJ25 with a VERY long bargepole! And I tried the Cayman and just found it a bit sterile. If I were buying a 2 seater at £50k, it'd be a used DB9 or GranTurismo.
Didn't you crank up the turbo on the STI hatch big-time? Anyway, I was only looking at New. If you're looking at used then, yeah, there's loads of stuff on the market for 50K.
Nope, Prodrive did. It was a 330S model. I never tune my cars. I like warranties too much! Though even stock hatches were blowing engines. The Evo can take more power but 440bhp is really pushing it. The SST box can only take 400lbft according to most tuners so what Mitsubishi UK are doing to strengthen it is a mystery!
Strange. Ah well.