10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Since we've been driving the incredibly light Zenos E10 S this week, it got us thinking about cars with incredible power-to-weight ratios. Here's a list of 10 such cars that combine power and lightness to devastating effect
10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Zenos E 10 R - 350bhp, 700kg = 500bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Porsche 918 Weissach Package - 886bhp, 1640kg = 540bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Caterham 620R - 310bhp, 572kg = 568bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

McLaren P1 - 903bhp, 1547kg = 584bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Ferrari LaFerrari - 950bhp, 1585kg = 599bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport - 1184bhp, 1888kg = 627bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Ariel Atom 500 - 500bhp, 550kg = 909bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Koenigsegg One:1 - 1341bhp, 1360kg = 986bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Hennessey Venom GT - 1244bhp, 1244kg = 1000bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

Caparo T1 - 575bhp, 470kg = 1075bhp/tonne

10 Cars With Crazy Power-To-Weight Ratios

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Anonymous

I always thought the Koenigseggeggeggegg had 1000hp per ton, hence the One:1 name, maybe I guess that figure was a little ambitions!

05/04/2016 - 17:41 |
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Sam Barnes

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I thought so too, possibly 1341kg was the dry weight.

05/04/2016 - 17:44 |
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DeLeon

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It is but bhp seems to be slightly different than hp/PS

05/04/2016 - 18:26 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Venom GT for the win

05/04/2016 - 20:51 |
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Darren Cassey

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It’s one:one if you use PS, but we use BHP so it’s slightly off. Would’ve looked a bit odd to change the figure just for that so went for consistency!

05/04/2016 - 21:19 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

In the Metric System and hp it has 1360 hp to 1360 kg

05/04/2016 - 21:41 |
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Scott Duncan

So the One:1 isn’t actually, One:1 and the venom dose actually have a perfect power to weight? Well then.

05/04/2016 - 17:42 |
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It is One Has 1360 PS, which is another way to measure power.

05/04/2016 - 17:58 |
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It does. 1360PS/1360KG.

05/04/2016 - 19:38 |
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Prince William Windsor

When I find out that half of these are British

05/04/2016 - 18:06 |
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And only one of the British has an interior.

05/04/2016 - 21:48 |
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Gurminder Bains

Am I right in saying the zenos e10 r has the RS drive train just converted to rwd

05/04/2016 - 18:12 |
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Anonymous

Caparo looks insane !

05/04/2016 - 18:21 |
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DeLeon

Why is bhp always a bit less than hp/PS ?

05/04/2016 - 18:25 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by DeLeon

power loss, for moving the gears in transmission, driveshaft, diferential

05/04/2016 - 21:42 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by DeLeon

for the same reason that measures in inches are always smaller than measures in centimeters. bhp and hp are different units

05/04/2016 - 22:04 |
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Milos Markovic

In reply to by DeLeon

BHP an imperial unit of power, equal to one horsepower but used only as a measure of the power available at the shaft of an engine.
CHP Engine horsepower is measured at the flywheel

PS or Pferdestärke (horse-strength in German)measurement of engine power in 1992. One PS is about 98.6% of a brake horsepower – PS is sometimes referred to as ‘metric horsepower’.
bhp = hp= chp
1 Ps= 0.98631997 hp/chp/bhp
Whp is power at the wheels… bhp = hp= chp minus the drive train loss.
1 bhp /hp/ chp = 0.74570000 KW

05/05/2016 - 09:48 |
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Ali Mahfooz

Pagani Huayra BC: 789bhp, 1280kgs. That’s 616bhp/tonne.

05/04/2016 - 19:59 |
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Olivier Culat #86

New Venom: 1451 BHP, 1244 KG = 1166 BHP per tonne!

05/04/2016 - 20:01 |
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Anonymous

I know i might sound stupid AND this is very off topic but how do I post anything anymore… I don’t like this new layout of CT….

05/04/2016 - 20:06 |
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Anonymous

I know it’s wrong, I corrected myself saying I was wrong.

05/04/2016 - 22:38 |
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