What Should You Be Looking For In A High Performance Car?
If you've got even the remotest interest in cars and driving
, it's highly likely that you've at least thought of getting a high performance car.
You might be relatively happy driving around in your 1.0 litre Vauxhall Corsa or Citroen Saxo at the moment, but if the opportunity arose that would allow you to walk into Lamborghini dealers and pick whatever car you wanted, it's almost guaranteed that you'd always get down to the dealership as fast you could.
If that opportunity did arise, however, would you actually know what you were looking for?
If you're not an avid car enthusiast, chances are you wouldn't.
Read through the following information, however and it should hopefully mean that you soon will have the necessary knowledge and it will put you in good stead should you go out looking for a high performance car.
One of the first things that you need to look at is the most obvious of points - speed.
The term high performance covers a broad range of cars and speeds, with cars in the bracket generally having a top speed that they can achieve easily of between 150 to 250 miles per hour.
Brake horsepower (bhp) is something else that you need to keep an eye out for. Not something that everyone instantly understands, bhp, generally speaking, relates to the amount of power that a car can produce before any involvement from other parts of the vehicle.
As with speed, bhp can vary massively, but if you're looking at cars with a bhp of over 500, there's a good chance it's going to be in the high performance bracket (as an example, the Ferrari Enzo has 651 bhp).
And although if you're on the look out for a high performance car you're going to be looking at it's technical data more than anything else, there's no doubt that the car's aesthetics play a part in the decision process for many.
Depending on how high performing you want the car to be depends on it's aesthetics and how attractive it is to look at, as generally speaking, the better performing the car is, the less mainstream looking it becomes.
For instance, you could use 30,000 pounds and get a top of the range VW Golf, which would see you driving around in a standard looking car but one which was particularly fast, handled well and could blow most other similar looking cars out of the water.
If you were to spend 300,000 pounds, however, you'd be able to choose from a range of models in Lamborghini dealers, all of which would leave the VW Golf looking particularly standard in terms of both performance and style.
High performance cars are generally cars that are bought by those who have an in-depth interest in them; but everyone's got to start somewhere, right?
Don't think you have to know the ins and outs of every car so that you're seemingly qualified to drive one that performs particularly well - do your research, don't be afraid to ask questions and you'll be well on your way to knowing what to look for in a high performance car.
by: Steve Carr
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