Convertibles battle

[Bart One]

Hi all. I decided to make a comparsion of some cars. For my test I chose convertable cars (roadsters). I put them under a few tests and here are the results.

BMW Z4
418 hp
1365 kg

Honda S2000 Type V
466 hp
1117 kg

RUF 3400S
515 hp
1300 kg

Nissan 350Z Roadster (Z33)
486 hp
1550 kg

TVR Tamora
537 hp
1070 kg

Test #1: 0-400m time.

1st - RUF 0'12.316
2nd - TVR 0'12.510
3rd - Nissan 0'12.686
4th - Honda 0'13.069
5th - BMW 0'13.422

Test #2: Autumn Mini Ring fastest laps.

1st - RUF 0'40.388
2nd - TVR 0'42.018
3rd - Nissan 0'42.532
4th - Honda 0'43.152
5th - BMW 0'44.015

Test #3: Acceleration.

1st - Honda: The best acceleration at all. Wheels don't spin at any time.

2nd - BMW, Nissan: Wheels spin only when the sales pointer is on the red field.

3rd - RUF: Wheels spin just a bit on first gear.

4th - TVR: Wheels spin almost all the time on 1st gear and it accelerates slowly.

Test #4: Braking stability (this test's purpose is to show us the car that is the most stable. While driving fast [250+ km\h] start braking down and take some turns [right-left-right-left]. Count how many times the car skid and the test is over).

1st - Honda: skid once.

2nd - RUF, Nissan: skid twice.

3rd - BMW: skid 3 times.

4th - TVR: skid 4 times.

Test #5: Driving sensivity.

1st - RUF: The most sensible car. Driving it was very enjoyable.

2nd - TVR, BMW: Very sensible, not as RUF though.

3rd - Honda: quite well to drive, best on high speeds (200+ km\h)

4th - Nissan: Because of its weight it loses in sensibility test. I usually prefer very sensible cars to get the feeling of the car. This one didn't allow me to feel it though.

After all these tests I counted everything and this is the overall classification:

1st place - RUF 3400S
2nd place - Honda S2000 Type V
3rd place - TVR Tamora
4th place - Nissan 350Z Roadster (Z33)
5th place - BMW Z4

Thanks for reading. See you!

 

[GM]

Cool,
The RUF is clearly better than the rest stock or tuned

 

[Dave A]

Just one question regardin gt he acceleration tests you did, you mention wheelspinning a lot in some of the car's, did you just floor it? Becuase the Ruf is probably the fastst car you tested on a track, but the rest of your results don't match what I find. Also, you put the Honda as the best at accelerating, but it's not the fastest, surely that's missing the point, the best should be the fastest.

Other than the acceleration part, that's a good test though 👍.

 

[Bart One]

Just one question regardin gt he acceleration tests you did, you mention wheelspinning a lot in some of the car's, did you just floor it? Becuase the Ruf is probably the fastst car you tested on a track, but the rest of your results don't match what I find. Also, you put the Honda as the best at accelerating, but it's not the fastest, surely that's missing the point, the best should be the fastest.

Other than the acceleration part, that's a good test though 👍.

Well, I think you didn't understand me. I tried to find the best acceleration AT ALL. Honda is maybe a bit slower, but it finds it easier to accelerate, while the RUF's wheels sometimes spin. And the second thing is, the acceleration speed can be also extract from the 0-400m test.

And for the wheel spinning - AYC controller was set for stock horsepower and as you can see I tuned up all the cars.

Besides - thanks for your attention. I'll correct my mistake.

 

[Dave A]

You have a good point regarding the 0-400m times being there as well as, I didn't think about that before. So yeah, very good writeup.