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Unless I've got the only genuine 140bhp A3 in existence (highly unlikely),then there's absolutely no way these things are putting out a genuine 170+bhp.
Honestly,would they take a beard-growing,paint drying,26 seconds to go from zero-100mph if they were ?
It just doesn't equate.
It doesn't equate in real life either.
Not by the way my thing wheezes past other cars and I have to pre-plan overtakes.
Only a few months back I was telling you all about how I struggled to get past an ancient Golf Gti.
Does that sound like a 170+ bhp car to you ?
My car's no slower than any other 2.0tdi either,as witnessed by a fun wee dogfight I had with a 2.0tdi A4 S-line the other week.
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Just because you can/can't beat another car on the road you cannot go around making definitive statements about it.
For example, you couldnt beat an ancient golf gti? One of my friends has an ancient golf gti
it happens to be powered by a 5 litres V8 from a TVR Griffith
does that make my audi any faster or slower? No, of course not. Does it help us determine how fast his car is? Nope.
Likewise, I could have a 'race' with many cars and beat them - as long as we weren't properly racing
I could take on a Bugatti Veyron and win (if the driver was dead).
Would that make my Audi faster than a Veyron? Of course not.
The fact remains that the PD engines quoted power figures fall short of what they actually churn out. Quite why, I dont know - but I have spoken to too many people in the VAG world with these things to think its a freak occurrence - its the norm
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So,do you believe these figures then ?
If so,can you explain why a 170+bhp car accelerates so slowly ?
The BMW 320D is much quicker to 100mph,on it's quoted 163bhp,so should we assume it is actually putting out over 200 bhp ??
Seriously,can you see why I'm so sceptical here ?
If our cars seemed unbelievably fast for 140bhp,then I'd have no problem.
It's like saying Britney Spears has 40DD hooters,when all your instincts say "Naaaaah"..