{"id":404,"date":"2010-08-31T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=404"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:03:19","slug":"the-cheapest-the-fastest-and-the-mostest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/the-cheapest-the-fastest-and-the-mostest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheapest, The Fastest And The Mostest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve posted a bit about some of the most economical cars in Australia in the small and medium range, which got me wondering about which car really is the most economical \u2013 and, for that matter, the fastest, the cheapest and the most expensive.\u00a0 And if it\u2019s world records we\u2019re after, then the obvious place to go is to the Guinness World Records<\/a> books and website to have a look.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done my best to find the records for proper production cars rather than modified, souped-up, tweaked, customised or otherwise tinkered with cars.\u00a0 So here goes…<\/p>\n

The cheapest:<\/strong> The cheapest production car by far is the Tata Nano.\u00a0 Designed and made in India, this is intended to do for South-east Asia what the Model T Ford did for the USA and the VW Beetle did for Germany: a cheap car that the average person can afford, allowing the country to embrace the automobile age.\u00a0 When it was released in 2008, it cost the Indian equivalent of US$2000.\u00a0 It seats four and has four doors, but has a number of quirky cost-cutting measures that mean that it\u2019s not likely to really take off in Australia \u2013 if it makes it over here at all.\u00a0 These cost-cutting measures include a lack of power steering (it\u2019s so small and light it doesn\u2019t need it), only one windscreen wiper, three lug nuts per wheel instead of four, only one wing mirror, no airbags and a boot that is only accessible from the inside.\u00a0 In other words, it may look like a hatchback, but it\u2019s not.\u00a0 It\u2019s more like a hatchbelly.\u00a0 In 2009, an upgraded version was released for the European market that had been heavily modified to meet safety standards.<\/p>\n

The most economical:<\/strong> This is a very hotly contested category.\u00a0 I\u2019m not 100% sure exactly which car is officially has the GWR for economy (neither the book nor the website list it anywhere that\u2019s easy to find), but contenders include the VW Lupo (3 L\/100 km) and the smart fourtwo cdi (3.3 L\/100 km).\u00a0 These don\u2019t seem to be available in Australia yet, but watch this space!<\/p>\n

The fastest production car:<\/strong> The current official fastest production car is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, which has a top speed of 431.072 km\/h.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most expensive:<\/strong> It\u2019s probably not completely surprising that the most expensive car title also goes to the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport.\u00a0 The price tag?\u00a0 About US$2.3 million.\u00a0 Personally, if I had this sort of money in my back pocket, I\u2019d put it on a house and spend the rest on putting about a million people in the third world on bicycles.\u00a0 That\u2019s the retail price new, by the way, not the top price that a car can get at an auction and\/or after becoming a classic \u2013 some early Rolls-Royces have fetched more.<\/p>\n

Most popular car:<\/strong> In terms of units sold, irrespective of make and model, it seems to be a contest between the Toyota Corolla and the VW Beetle, with honourable mention going to the Model T Ford, the Volkswagen Golf and the Ford F-series.\u00a0 However, there may soon be some Chinese and Indian contenders in this list.<\/p>\n

Readers may also be interested in finding more records by following this link to Wikipedia<\/a>. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-credit-card\/ren-drive-365-credit-card.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve posted a bit about some of the most economical cars in Australia in the small and medium range, which got me wondering about which car really is the most economical \u2013 and, for that matter, the fastest, the cheapest and the most expensive.\u00a0 And if it\u2019s world records we\u2019re after, then the obvious place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}