Most powerful 4WD

[RSmith]

Does anybody know what the most powerful 4wd car on the market is today? Nobody say Galibier :cheesy:

 

[franki68]

Does anybody know what the most powerful 4wd car on the market is today? Nobody say Galibier :cheesy:

veyron.

 

[geraint13]

i thought it was the veyron mate.

 

[Yugguy]

Insignia VXR.

 

[BAD63R]

The V10 twin turbo'd Audi RS6 is a good contender aswell, obviously not as quick as the Veyron but still stupidly fast. Oh and it has the Lambo engine in it

 

[lutonmatt]

my landrover lol
will get to 80 lol

 

[geraint13]

what about the bowler ? they are immense lol.
dont know if they can bought public though ?

 

[obi_waynne]

Are we talking bhp/torque or speed?

 

[geraint13]

thought power was a mix of torque and bhp ?

 

[jelpoole]

qt wildcat 300 is the public-road version of the bowler wildcat. There is an article about it in the latest TopGear magazine

 

[geraint13]

will have a gander at that

 

[HDi fun]

For roadgoing and mainstream production cars I'm thinking VW Touraeg V10 or Audi Q7 must be contenders for this auspicious title.

 

[RobBentley]

Audi Q7 now ships with the 6.0 V12 TDi with 493BHP and 1000Nm of torque from factory!! That's good for 5.3sec to 60 in a 2600kg car!!

 

[RobBentley]

Scarily - it remaps to 558BHP and 1130Nm of torque!! Jeez!!

 

[turbonutter69]

Audi Q7 now ships with the 6.0 V12 TDi with 493BHP and 1000Nm of torque from factory!! That's good for 5.3sec to 60 in a 2600kg car!!

Madness.

 

[HDi fun]

833lbft.

That's small locomotive traction motor stuff

 

[herb]

Audi Q7 now ships with the 6.0 V12 TDi with 493BHP and 1000Nm of torque from factory!! That's good for 5.3sec to 60 in a 2600kg car!!

i did wondered why i had to use 3rd gear to overtake 1 of those

 

[turbonutter69]

 

[one in a million]

powerful 4wd . . . a suzuki vitara lol, but other than that a veyron

 

[Yugguy]

Fiat Panda 4x4

 

[HDi fun]

Suzuki Swift 1.3 GTti

 

[obi_waynne]

This has moved on now, I would say an Audi RS6 must come pretty high in the ranking here if we are talking popular production cars.

 

[Aerial Andy944]

The GTR still holds fastest 1/4 mile times on the drag strips. The big Lambos are 4wd arn't they? What power they running now to hit sub 3sec 0-60 times

 

[RobBentley]

We're talking most powerful here... not 'fastest' which are two different things. That said the Lambo Aventador LP700 running with performance Engine & Gearbox software makes 760bhp and is 4wd, so its a good contender... although its hardly a 'popular production car'..

 

[HDi fun]

Bugatti Veyron is full time 4wd, yes? Again, not a good example.

 

[RobBentley]

Bugatti Veyron is full time 4wd, yes? Again, not a good example.

Yup, full time AWD... 1200HP in the supersport, or 1200HP in the 'normal' Veyron through switching 1 byte of data in the ECU (don't laugh).

 

[obi_waynne]

Yup, full time AWD... 1200HP in the supersport, or 1200HP in the 'normal' Veyron through switching 1 byte of data in the ECU (don't laugh).

Hey I want that map for my car if you can't get me 1200bhp then the 200bhp increase will do I suppose and I'll let you change two bytes of data to get there!!

It's still a VAG group car so shouldn't be a problem for you.

 

[RobBentley]

Lol. Not so easy Waynne! The Veyron oddly has a second set of maps which are activated with a single byte switch that wops the power up. The only reason I can possibly think for this is when doing their top speed runs they run it at higher power than sold to retail clients.

 

[carl1968]

what about affordable cars or even members own rides?, is there a thread to post your Hp and Torque figures?, maybe backed up with a scan or photo of your dyno graph?, I have an old one for mine but think a trip to Area 52 to see Jas is on the cards

 

[HDi fun]

Single byte switch?? Or single bit?

 

[RobBentley]

Single byte switch?? Or single bit?

Correct, typo well spotted! Nice to have someone else on the forum technical

 

[andy206]

Audi Q7 now ships with the 6.0 V12 TDi with 493BHP and 1000Nm of torque from factory!! That's good for 5.3sec to 60 in a 2600kg car!!

now thats one impressive engine and remap figures are insane, what does that bring the 0-60 down to etc?
could you imagine if that engine was in a 1000kg car to start with

 

[HDi fun]

now thats one impressive engine and remap figures are insane, what does that bring the 0-60 down to etc?
could you imagine if that engine was in a 1000kg car to start with

Where would it go?

 

[T9 man]

With that power to weight ratio I think a Moon shot isn't out of the question

 

[obi_waynne]

With power like that the earths rotation will slow up every time you pulled away!

 

[SLEEPER]

sorry to burst the bubble andy but to get the q7 v12 power plant into a car weighing 1000kg it would have to be in a reliant robin

 

[obi_waynne]

Noooo! @SLEEPER that would be so wrong! Couldn't a Cobra replica cope with it?