Ferrari with highest power to weight ratio?

The new SF90 weights 3,461 lbs with 986 hp = 3.5 p-t-w ratio. The Pista has 711 hp on 3,054 lbs. for a p-t-w ratio of 4.3.

 

Unless you have both cars and a scale and a dyno..... Ferrari's weight numbers are probably bogus.

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Is the 333 a road car?



Matt

 

LaF currently, followed by SF90, followed by Pista.

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Bump, LAF is close to 600 hp per ton, SF90 will be 550, Pista is 500. Do to gearing though Pista and LAF are barely different to 120 mph. All are ridiculous.

 

Remember when 300hp/ton was the magic number?

 

I'm 40, so can't say that I do. As long as I have been into cars, the number was 450. I got more aware about what it actually meant when the Diablo, 512TR and F1 was the big deal.
When was 300 big?

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458 speciale is About 430 per ton. I think 400 and above per ton is the sweet spot. 500 hp per ton and above is Pista/720S+ territory and basically hyper car stuff.

 

I wasn't thinking per ton. Just overall power.

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electric will be so fast compared to ICE cars they’ll make their occupants sick. It’s just a far more efficient means to and end. It won’t be as fun.

 

If you're in your 40s, it was the benchmark from about 1960 until you were around 20. Only the super cars hit or passed it - 250 gto, cobra, 288 gto, f40, f50. Only from around 2005 up did more 'normal' cars start to pass that mark. The diablo, 512tr etc were all below 300hp/ton.

 

True. But I was just thinking about exotics, not so much the German GT's. For many years while I grew up, 250-350 hp was what BMW, Merc and other such models had - but that was never really on my radar. I was always looking at power in relation to the exotics. When it comes to driving and my interest in cars, I was always into what the top marques had for power and their top speed. One thing that is part of a family "weakness" if you like, is the desire for speed. I grew up with grandmothers and a mother who got just as many speeding tickets as their respective husbands. My 70 year old mother have gotten two speeding tickets within the last three months - the family likes to go fast. This have resulted in an odd perception of both power and what fast is. When I was 15 I was absolutely unimpressed by 300 hp and 270 kph as I knew there were much faster and more powerful cars out there, and virtually all members of my closest family was involved in some kind of motorsport, being it on land or sea. If it's fast, I'm in

 

The body quickly adjust to the feeling of the acceleration. The only thing that made me sick when testing the Taycan Turbo S for four hours, was its bouncy suspension. I have never gotten sick in a car until that day in May. It has that odd double-bounce some really heavy cars sometimes have. You could feel all of those 2400 kg wallow along.

 

Are you sure it wasn’t the pulling affect from the torque??

Plus the supreme traction which never lets you rest up.

 

300hp per ton, not 300hp. That's 450hp in a 3000lb car - and only a very few cars exceeded that before ~2000. The base Diablo and 512tr didn't, only the hyper cars like the f40, f50, and diablo se30 or diablo sv did. Now we're talking about cars with 600hp/ton.

Top speed is kind of a meaningless number these days, f1 cars can't hit the same top speed as a Bugatti but they're in a completely different league when it comes to any kind of speed contest outside of Bonneville.