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Re:Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier by crgwbr on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:28AM (#20859287)
Interesting; things are a bit different in the US. I bought my first car at 18. It was small, a Honda Civic Si, but had 198bhp. That wasn’t a slow car by any means, but wasn’t considered especially fast either.
Re:Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier by ska on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:33AM (#20859711)
For more perspective, that’s about what a really fast motorcycle puts out these days, e.g. H2 SX. That’s a whole different ballgame of power-to-weight. Not many are pushing 200, but there are lots in the 150 to 180 range, stock. Heck, even some of the midsize (read, small and under 450lb) are knocking on the bottom end of that range with displacements well under 1l.
Re:Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier by gavia1 on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:12AM (#20859552)
200HP is considerably higher than the average power output of most European cars.

Most small hatchbacks will be producing somewhere between 90HP and 170HP. Estates and wagons from 190HP to 250HP and SUVs somewhere similar.

Re:Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier by ska on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:37AM (#20859740)
FWIW, I suspect it’s higher than average for North America too, for smaller cars. Higher proportion of trucks and SUVs though, and “small cars” are mostly a bit larger.