Future kit builder

[Normb666]

Further thoughts and deffo my last word on this (in case y'all fall asleep!), in the vein of a little perspective.

Nick's right about modern hot hatches and the like, but they're getting bigger and heavier all the time with all the kit that gets tacked onto them. So forget those, and forget your supercars too, cos if you want to see something REALLY fast, that's really cheap for what you get....look at motorbikes.

I'm lucky enough to have a small stable of said beasties, from an '81 Laverda Jota (fastest bike in the world in its day with a whole 90bhp - less than a cooking 600 today) through a Ducati 916 and an MV Agusta F4 1000S (with new ECU, mapped so it runs properly and with 156 rear wheel HP), and a 2017 Kawasaki ZZR1400 with 200bhp (or 210 with ram effect).
Now there's no way you can use all that power all the time - in fact you can only use it fully very rarely, unless you particularly like prison food or you've had enough of this world. But what's great about them all is the overtaking grunt they have...queues hardly exist, cos you're never in them for any prolonged period. With the ZZR particularly, even two-up, I don't even have to change down most of the time. Have to say I've never troubled the red line... acceleration figures are 0-60 in 2.5secs (only that slow because it tries to "loop" off the line), 0-100 in 5, 0-124 in 10....all that for £15K. And we're discussing whether 300, 400bhp is too much in a Stratos? Give over!

Just one final observation: anyone wondering what's "safe" or "sensible", please take a step back right now, and ask yourself exactly what it is you're glueing together in the garage?

Yeah, it's a lookalike of that Mad Stratos thing Think "safe" and "sensible" just left the party