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    Horse Power... Current car - First Car

    Reading the other thread about cars and the need for power

    First car 34 hp
    Current car 120 hp
    Difference 86 hp

    The smallest engined car I have driven around HK was a 53HP Subaru. It was OK but just needed to plan ahead a little more...


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    34hp?? Surely not in HK with the terrain.

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    Don't forget about weight. Earlier cars with less power were also (usually) much smaller and lighter and thus didn't need the same level of HP that we have in today's cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Reading the other thread about cars and the need for power

    First car 34 hp
    Current car 120 hp
    Difference 86 hp

    The smallest engined car I have driven around HK was a 53HP Subaru. It was OK but just needed to plan ahead a little more...
    First car or first car in hk ?

    First car ( in Australia in the 80s) had a factory stock power output of 300hp, I actually had two at the time an E38 Chrysler Valiant R/T charger with a 265 hemi inline 6 with bathurst spec track pack triple webbers. And a pepper red 351 XA GT falcon with slightly more power, an extra gear and a 9 inch LSD highway diff.. Man these cars were fun

    First car in Hong Kong was a very hairy chested, guards red, 1988 RUF Porsche (930) turbo convertable.

    Present car is a 353hp JDM Chrysler 300C 5.7 litre Hemi V8.
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    First car: no idea

    Current car(s): no idea

    All my cars have got me from A to B comfortably.


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    I don't want that kind of HP with all of the cameras here. Too tempting to test out the car.


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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    First car: no idea

    Current car(s): no idea

    All my cars have got me from A to B comfortably.
    Bet you know the name of your first beer, where it was and who it was with though... Likely could talk the leg off a table about 'English ' spectator/team sports ie premier league football etc...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    Bet you know the name of your first beer, where it was and who it was with though... Likely could talk the leg off a table about 'English ' spectator/team sports ie premier league football etc...
    Struggling on the beer, but it was 46 years ago at least.
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    34hp? Might as well not having a car then tbh


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    Internet says my first car was rated at 120 hp although I can't image it being more than 100. Current car about 170 hp. First car could fit in the boot of the current car.


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