World's Fastest Estate Car is .....British

[Robbo SPS]

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[Ruptured Duck Motorsport]

Well done MG!

Thats article is smaller than my "aston back to LM" piccy  

[Robbo SPS]

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[Steve Pyro]

I think the engine's a Ford.

Good news is, you can soon buy one of these either as a ZT 260 saloon or an Estate with the V8 in it - and they'll be rear wheel drive.  I think the prices start about £28k.
MG - Rover's web site bills it as the "Return of the Practical British Muscle Car"  
It looks like the old SD1 lives again.

Unfortunately, the production version won't be able to do 225 mph though  

[Steve Pyro]

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[Robbo SPS]

And i thought there was No support for MG .

If its the small block chevy thats sold more units than any other engine , 260 bhp can Very easily be tuned into 350 , and that make the car VERY VERY fast . The ZT handles really well, no idea about the SD1 , as i have never driven one .

The MIGHTY BRITISH BULLDOG SPIRIT LIVES ON .  

[wishy]

For those of you who are going on the track day in october.......you will be in for a real treat.....the "shed2" going round at warp speed!!!!

Have you seen an MPV capable of doing 0 - 60 mph in 2 minutes

Wishy

[pretzel]

Have you seen an MPV capable of doing 0 - 60 mph in 2 minutes

Wishy

Yep.....not a pretty sight

[Matt Harper]

[quote author=Robbo SPS .

If its the small block chevy thats sold more units than any other engine , 260 bhp can Very easily be tuned into 350 , and that make the car VERY VERY fast . The ZT handles really well, no idea about the SD1 , as i have never driven one .

The MIGHTY BRITISH BULLDOG SPIRIT LIVES ON .  

A bone stock LT1 small-block, as fitted in the current C5 'Vette, delivers 350bhp. Mine has only minor mods (Blackwing and Borla Stinger exhaust) and spits out 370. There are lots of LT1 Corvettes running 600+bhp on the street here.
I'm not sure a 350ci Bow-Tie would fit in that little MG - as stated earlier, more likely to be a 4.6L Rustang engine - Cobra variety with a blower, so not too shabby at all.
Matt

[pretzel]

Just for info I read about this speed record attempt in a motoring mag. The engine is 6.0L V8 developed by Roush giving out 765BHP without any forced induction - so definitely pretty serious.

Would like to see that in a road car  

[Robbo SPS]

Just for info I read about this speed record attempt in a motoring mag. The engine is 6.0L V8 developed by Roush giving out 765BHP without any forced induction - so definitely pretty serious.

Would like to see that in a road car  

I would like to stick it up Jeremy Clarksons nose. British cars are crappy apparently. It would blow your bloody Merc away ( just ) ......

[Steve Pyro]

I've done a bit of nosing around and the engine in the production ZT260 is the 4.6 litre SOHC engine as fitted to the current Ford Mustang (or Rustang, Matt).
No blower though (retro fit project?) but the car is now RWD rather than FWD (with associated torque steer and wheelspin but no go).

It will be interesting to see how the dealerships will handle the servicing of the ZT260.  They would have been well freaked out with the 6 litre Roush motor though  

The old SD1 V8 (the ex Buick engine) was (is) pretty solid and plently of my cobra replica contemporaries have used this engine (from 3.5L to 5.0L) in their cars.
Maybe in years to come, when the ZT260 is in the scrapyard, plenty of car builders will be pulling out the engine for their latest project.  

[Matt Harper]

[quote The engine is 6.0L V8 developed by Roush giving out 765BHP without any forced induction - so definitely pretty serious.

Jack Roush offers a 380 ci pushrod crate motor (to drop into a Mustang) - so it might be based on this - but not with that much horsepower.
So, it has to be a full-on NASCAR motor with around 3mpg.
Great for Bonneville or Talladega - not so good for Ealing Broadway....

[Robbo SPS]

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[Matt Harper]

The 4.6L Mustang engine is available with a factory fitted supercharger in the Cobra version. It is a strong, tractable motor, but makes nothing like the horsepower stated here (presumably to keep it reliable).
From a servicing point of view, yank iron has always been quite straightforward - very regular oil changes, filters and level top-ups keep 'em running forever. My car has a huge amount of electronic metering - everything from tyre pressures to mass air flow - and it's usually the sensors that break down, as opposed to the drive components.
I would be impressed if a car like this hit the street in UK. Though I think it would be too expensive to be a half-decent seller (sitting next to a WRX or Evo).
It's about time the MG brand offered a car that was not as flat as a fart. FoMoCo seems a strange bedfellow for this hybrid. As stated earlier, I'd have thought the all alloy Range Rover engine would have been a more obvious choice - that said, you'd be hard pressed to extract 500bhp out of that unit without some very serious modification