Hey all. I was just checking out a few new car 0-100 times, mainly golf gti's. They are doing it in the high 6 seconds. What is possible in a beetle with say a mild to hot street drivable 1776-1916??? Do they even come close to this. Thanks

About 7 seconds at best ?
There was a web-based calculator somewhere so it could be estimated from certain drag times 0-60ft or 0 to 660ft, can't remember.
BRUTUS (2000cc) worked out to 6.9sec.

yeah right. Thats pretty dam good, and would feel a hell load faster too comparded to a new car.

probably closer to 9 sec.

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Originally posted by Craig Torrens probably closer to 9 sec.

A stock 1303 I think was 16 seconds?

My 70 RWHP 1303 did around 11 secs with a stop watch and GPS

Wasn't that long ago anything under 10sevs was fast in a new car.

A friend had a turbo 2.3 1303 that was close to 5 secs
SCARY

If my memory serves me somewhere in Rod penrose or Dangerous daves post is a break down of his runs and gives his 0-100.

Using the Wallace Drag Calculator, my 2.0 litre street beetle that does a 8.7 @ 80 mph 1/8 mile or 13.4 @ 97 mph coverts to a 0 - 60mph time of 4.89sec. Happy with that.....

A VW 1303 only had a 1300cc engine and would have taken over 20 seconds to 100 km/h. A 40-hp 1200 Beetle was around 25 seconds. If you mean a Superbug, the correct name foir Australian models (which was basically a Euro 1303S) then yes, around 16 seconds.

Even if you got 100 bhp out of an air-cooled engine, it's not much by today's standards. 1 hp = 0.746 kW, so that's just under 77 kW. This is roughly equivalent to the previous base Golf 77TSI (which is a turbo 1.2), and it did 0-100 in 10.6 sec.

http://www.carsguide.com.au/news-and-reviews/car-reviews-road-tests/volkswage...

The current mid-range and top-model normal petrol Golfs are now the 90TSI and 103TSI (both turbo 1.4s). They do 0-100 in 9.5 sec and 8.4 sec respectively. The 103TDI turbo diesel does 0-100 in 9.2 sec - pretty good for an oil burner.

As another comparison, the cute little VW Up! (now discontinued from the Australian lineup) had a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated engine that made 55 kW (74 bhp). It did 0-100 in 13.2 sec.

Previous importers Ateco, TKM and Inchcape sometimes promoted new models as 'the fastest Volkswagen ever sold in Australia.' They did this with the Golf 2 GTI in 1990, then the Golf 3 VR6 in 1994, and then the Bora V6 in 1998. In 2004 the Passat W8 became the first Australian VW to be electronically limited to 250 km/h top speed, so since then 'fastest' really means 'quickest'. The 4-litre 202 kW Passat W8 did 0-100 in 7.2 sec. The 2008 Golf 5 R32 (184 kW) did 0-100 in 6.2 sec (DSG). The 2010 Golf 6 R (now a 188 kW turbo 4 in Aussie spec) did 0-100 in 5.7 sec. But this wasn't the 'quickest VW' then - it was actually the bigger Passat R36 sedan, which had a bigger 3.6-litre 220 kW engine and did 0-100 in 5.6 sec. This was later matched by the Passat CC V6, which used the same engine.

The new record is the current Golf 7 R, released last month. It now has a 206 kW 2.0 turbo four in Aussie spec, and does 0-100 in 5.0 sec. The quickest and fastest VW ever sold in Australia.

http://www.carsguide.com.au/news-and-reviews/car-reviews-road-tests/2014_vw_g...

Wheels tested an Aussie 1600 Superbug and it did it in 16.6

1600 74 Supers US models held back by all the pollution crap and did it in 18.5 secs

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Originally posted by Craig Torrens Quote: Originally posted by mactaylor If my memory serves me somewhere in Rod penrose or Dangerous daves post is a break down of his runs and gives his 0-100. Yes, but we are giving comparisons with a mild 1776/1915 in a street beetle.............not a drag cars times