It's not drastically slow, there just comes a particular point where in any other car you may push the pedal to get a little extra power for any number of reasons and you suddenly realise you already have it mashed into the bulkhead. At 5500rpm.
But that's only mere percent/s of the time, all other points along the drive it's fine. For a 45hp car (typical specific output for the capacity given the design age of the engine) its not so terrible. You can still outrun Nissan Serenas at least!
13 seconds for a 1 litre sounds like BS to me mate, you're kissing GT territory there (never mind 1.3CL!)... did you do the run 2-way to even out any gradient? You can get a 5 second variation either way without properly noticing you're on a hill in some locations (coming onto the M1 south at J24 is a particular killer - you dont really notice you're slogging up quite an incline, til you look down and find the car is having trouble reaching 70 from 60!)...
Yeah it's alright for the motorway, apart from certain stretches of the M1 / M6 Toll you can be the fastest thing on the road - so long as you're ruthless with the gears and loose with your lane discipline..... and pretty much keep the pedal slammed all the time!
Or, if you're not trying to break the sound barrier, just cruise, it'll keep up to the limit on pretty much any motorway gradient, though you might need to use 3rd (/4th) occasionally. And of course you'll have no problems with slipstreaming along behind trucks if you wanna save some fuel (as they'll be in trouble LONG before you are - when the average artic is slogging down to 45, you can still make a clean getaway around them).
STILL I would prefer something with at least another 10hp, eg a 1.3! Or, even if it's a 1108cc punto... (but not the 1.2 panda - it a HEAVY mofo!). For now needs must however!
You care?
no not really
and not that it probably makes any real difference out on the road anyhow...
PS really need to get it RRd, several times in different conditions. Hill testing it to see the effects of different gears vs the official figures for max power revs etc, i find that dropping from 3rd to 2nd at a bit under 45 means you can make fair acceleration instead of stagnating/very gradually slowing, but 4th to 3rd at around 65 makes very little difference to the proceedings (ie speed remains constant in either gear). Make of that what you will...
(or, ~3400 to ~5300rpm vs 3700 to 5200rpm - shouldnt think there'd be an incredible difference between the two, but there is.. both under similar conditions, had been running about five or six minutes from starting off... considering the max torque figure, shouldnt be within even 1hp of maximum before 4125 as an extreme figure... maybe its the chip, "invisibly" boosting the midrange
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