It's around 170 pounds
lighter than the old car but, at 4,949 pounds, still hardly a featherweight.
It is about 500 kg
lighter than the old car and is more aerodynamic, with the drag coefficient placed at 0.34.
Not exact matches
Using Pure White (rather
than Old White) will result in a cleaner color and a closer match to the bright
light - pink of the pedal
car.
With 155 horsepower and 148 lb - ft of torque, the new
car is less powerful
than the
old one, but it's roughly 150 pounds
lighter.
It's 60 kg
lighter, too, though given how bulky the
old car was that's not as exciting as it may seem — the M4 cabrio still weighs 1750 kg, over 250 kg more
than the coupe.
Rather
than being painted on the mesh of the radiator vent like the
old concept or a pre-war racing Bentley, the 6e's digit
lights up when the
car is running.
We've included the Swift Sport in our list of small
cars, given its likely price and performance figures, but while it won't match the
cars above for punch, it has a real chance of leaving a few with bloody noses in terms of good
old - fashioned fun — the new Swift is small, far
lighter than most superminis, and Suzuki knows how to tune a good chassis.
The fourth - gen Clio is bigger
than its predecessor, as Renault believes most people downsize to it from the C - segment rather
than upscaling from smaller
cars, but as we've already touched upon, brilliantly it is up to 100 kg
lighter model - for - model
than the
old Clio.
The
car is
lighter than the
old M3 coupe and a range of adjustments can be made to the steering, suspension and engine response.
The stronger all - round performance will be helped by the fact that the new
car is 170 kg
lighter than the
old model, while the body is also stiffer, which helps to improve refinement and safety.
The taillamps are still broad eclipses, but their illuminated ring - within - a-ring structure is far less ostentatious
than the
lighting on the
old car.
The F - 150's relative
light weight and its suspension tuning mean that whether loaded or empty it feels more like a big
old car than a truck.
Although better
than most of the competition, this MQB based
car feels
light and it doesn't have the same solid door shut as the Skodas of the
old.
The transition between settings was really cool, as the LED headlights changed the shape of their throw pattern rather
than merely turning on and off a second set of
lights, as in
older cars.
With this chassis design Volvo claims to use a higher percentage of hot - formed boron steel
than any other manufacturer and allows the S90 to be larger,
lighter and safer
than the
old car.
In terms of technology as well the current Range Rover has been built on a new aluminium - infused platform that made the
car almost half a tonne
lighter than its predecessor while the Lexus is still being built on the decade
old Land Cruiser platform.
The
car weighs around 1245 kgs in the base trim, around 115 kgs
lighter than the
older version sold in China.
This generation of RS4 is (up to) 80 kg
lighter than the
old one (deep breath: the body by 15 kg, engine by 31 kg, front and rear axles 6 kg each, steering system 3.5 kg, sport differential 1 kg, quattro driveline 12.5 kg, ceramic brakes 8 kg and, if you spec them, milled wheels 8 kg), but is still a 1715 kg
car; about the same as the C63.
Where the
old car needed the extra grunt of the bigger diesel to extract good performance, the new one is more
than 300 kg
lighter and delivers similar levels of performance despite the displacement deficit.
The national framework applies to
light vehicles (under 4.5 tonnes) less
than 15 years
old, and includes
cars, motorcycles, trailers and caravans.
Using Pure White (rather
than Old White) will result in a cleaner color and a closer match to the bright
light - pink of the pedal
car.