nurey:


You are 100% right bro, at 100km/h the car starts feeling the beat small small, at 120km/h the beat gets to the steering and the driver starts feeling it too, I have never surpassed 130km/h but I know it will get worse at that speed. higher than 130km/h the car starts feeling the smallest vibration on road and tends to sway it isn't easy maintaining a straight line again me don't surpass 80-100 I only do higher when overtaking and I never race motorist intentionally with that car, it aint a speedster, it aint a sport car but its a reliable, durable, able, controllable, intimidatable MINIVAN. Grab ur copy now Lol

It's intimidatable all right

nurey:


Its a 3.0L V6 VVTI petrol injector matted to a 4 speed automatic transmission churning out 193bhp and a top speed of 180km/h its no other than a toyota sienna

I got to drive someone's siena yesterday.....all I can say is.....chai!! bros u be daredevil waaa.....Above 110-120kmph....the car was dancing azonto.....or is it dat i'm too used to my ford focus wagon?

Siena:
My advice?

Walk away from this truck, and find something worthwhile to sink your money into.

Use the money to pamper yourself and the wifey to some sweet cuisine!

but seriously, op.......i'm the type that would recommend any car to you as long as your heart is in it......but the mk1 freelander? Stay the hell away!

lomomike:



4runners, landcruisers, prados, fj cruisers, lexus lx, gx are highly offroad capable and can ford waters of 1000mm. Don't under estimate them. Why are international organizations not using wrangler instead landcruiser series?

I beg to differ here. The work of my organization require us to go to many rural areas..most with terrible road access. We have a couple of landcruisers in our fleet, as well as a few defenders and a Jeep wrangler. The landcruisers (2010 models) though being really comfortable for offroaders, bottom out waay too much on demanding terrain....so we usually send out the Wrangler to kind of "pave a way" so the rest of the convoy can continue in its tracks. The previous gen Land Cruisers were much better offroaders but for the buttered down present gen? The Defender and Wrangler are pretty much superior in that regard.

What the present gen has going for it is its awesome capacity...it swallows most of our stuff- and thats why we have so darn many

lomomike:



Toyota's philosophy is for every segment, they've got a car to cover that need. Some folks aint concerned with sporty feel, motor moving side ways tyre spinning and creating skid/screech marks on the road. Toyota made cars for them. Folks who need such sporting feel were issued a Supra, Mr2, Gs, IS-F, LF-A (in lexus). For soccer moms Venza, highlander, RX, rav4, Nx is there, for hard core offroaders, they're issued with 4runner, FJ cruiser land cruiser, prado which are same as LX and GX for the executive guy who goes to office and back they're camry, corolla, es series, for the sports guy who travels long distance, they're issued GS series, young guys are issued IS, corolla, city guys who are conscious of fuel economy can choose yaris, agyo, prius for executives and CEOs Ls and Avalon are there to choose from etc.


May I tell you LX and GS class are one of the most luxury potent offroaders and LS series is one very reliable yet prestigious flagship brand competing with S class, 7 series, phaeton, A7 xJ?


Mind you, RX series is the bench mark for luxury crossovers from 1999 till date.
Toyota's highlander, rav4, 4runner are very safe cars with one of the fewest fatalities recorded during crash.

In my opinion, such variety is why toyota are worldwide bestsellers- 'tailor' making a car for everyone!

Bossforeva:
U mean the brand has died?

Nope, only the veyron model. Bugatti may be pulling out some other model in the soon future.

nurey:
This is the audi that intimidated me onroad today, Audi A4 2.0T quattro with APR badge inscribed on her, two powerful exhaust that kept on roaring RUN RUN and I was telling it BRING IT ON in my mini van.

Eeeiii...boss; what minivan was that?!

chillex8:
Thank God
No more avenue to invest looted public funds

Its more like only one less avenue...***sigh

I've got terrible news for all you rappers and hustlers, the bane of your existence is gone! The last Bugatti Veyron has found a home...in the Middle East!

Sure hope you weren't holding out for
a discount: Bugatti announced today
that the very last Veyron supercar, the
450th example of the breed, has been
sold.
Kind of hard to believe, but it's been
ten years since the first Veyron rolled
off the assembly line. When it did, it
was a revelation—an 8.0-liter, 16-
cylinder, quad-turbo force of nature
kicking out 1,001 horsepower and
hurtling to a Top Gear-verified 253
mph top speed.

Of course, it didn't stop there. If the
"regular" Veyron 16.4 wasn't enough
for you, in 2010 the company put out
the Veyron Super Sport, a stonking
1,200-horse bruiser that holds the
current world record for production car
top speed at 267 mph.
And if you wanted a lot of wind in your
hair, starting in 2009 Bugatti introduced
the targa-top Grand Sport, whose top
speed was limited to "only" 229 mph
with the roof removed, though the full
253 was available with the snap-off
hardtop installed.

But of course, all good things must
come to an end. Having sold 300
hardtop Veyrons and 150 Grand
Sports, the book closes on this
moonshot project. And yes, progress
marches on: Today, there are
production supercars that make more
power than even the most muscular
Veyron
, as well as turbocharged tuner freak
machines that out-accelerate it
.
So, yes—the Veyron era is over, but
consider what it represented. Not only
did parent company Volkswagen
resurrect one of the most legendary
automotive names, the company
endowed it with the best engineers and
tasked them with four simple-sounding
but enormously complex goals: create
a car with more than 1,000
horsepower, that could crest 240 mph,
rocket from zero to 60 in under 3
seconds, and hardest of all, "still be
suitable for driving to the opera in
comfort and style."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, chassis
number 450, the Grand Sport Vitesse
"La Finale" shown above, has been
sold to a customer from the Middle
East to be part of his private collection.
Before it's delicately stored away, La
Finale will be on display at the Geneva
Motor Show in March.
Whether or not you get to see the very
final Veyron—or any Veyron, for that
matter—it's a name you won't soon
forget. And for that, we auto
enthusiasts of the world will be forever
grateful.

Source: www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a25087/the-very-last-bugatti-veyron-has-been-sold/

lomomike:


Any Audi with an S badge is performance biased. Its even worse when that their evil quattro comes to play. They are cheat, audis.

bros!! u shld have told me this before i blew the transmission of my picanto trying to chase down an audi s6

lomomike:


What about the XV40, XV50 and XV60?
What about the lexus IS350, GS350, RX400h?
What about the infiniti G37, M45?

Incomplete list

bro, i did leave a whole lot out...didnt even mention a single acura...or even the audi s8....

As i mentioned earlier, luxury cars in nigeria already appear fast and wont be as much as a suprise to most Nigerians.

hence my deliberate omission of almost all luxury margues!

But then if you still feel im a bit wrong...thread's not closed yet.

lonelydora:
I was thinking there will not be any Honda .

Sure is....shouldda put in a toyota though

Aaaand 11. 1995 Audi RS2 Avant

Hey, I know I said this is a 10 car list, but then I was never good at math.

After being hopelessly humbled by the Cobalt up there, you swore revenge. You took up a second job, worked HARD and made good money. You then sold your Avalon and added your earnings to buy a 2009 Range Rover Sport Supercharged. You then looked for that stewpid Cobalt and made sure to overtake it well and good-so you’ve got some of your ego back… but then after driving for some minutes something that looks like an Audi 80 fills your rearview mirror. “Chai!!” you think, “I go school this tin can sharp sharp” You then proceed to floor your Range Rover, and that was your fatal mistake. Y’see, that car coming up behind you is the 1995 Audi RS2 Avant , also known as the car that can beat a freaking Mclaren F1 to 30mph!! Now you will take your Range to its top speed, only for this Audi to overtake you doing twice your speed. Whatever is left of your ego will be crushed, forever.

A collaboration between Porsche and Audi, the Audi RS2 Avant features a 2.2 litre inline five-cylinder 20-valve turbocharged petrol engine good for churning out315hp and 302 pound feet of torgue. This takes her to 60mph in 4.7 secs and tops her out at an electronically limited 163mph.

10. 2009 Chevrolet cobalt ss sedan

Lets say you are on the interstate. You and your Toyota Avalon have overtaken everything that dared to be on the road that day and you’re feeling pretty egotistic of yourself and your sweet Avalon. Suddenly you look up at your rearview mirror and notice a little econo sedan; getting larger and larger. You floor the accelerator but it’s to no avail, the little creep is catching up—fast. Then bam- before you can say Thunder Strike, the little sedan has overtaken you and is gone into the horizon, but not before it crushed every last bit of your manliness (or womanliness) on the road. You have just been schooled by the Chevy Cobalt SS sedan and its 2.0 turbocharged 4 cylinder that puts out 260 hp and 260 pound feet of torgue which take it to 60mph from a standstill in 5.5secs. It will then top out at 150mph, out of the scope of your vision.

9.2006 Honda Accord V6

This list would have not been complete without the mention of a Honda. The chief alternative to Toyota Camry in Nigeria, the Accord is a very popular car in Nigeria. Popularly referred to as the ‘discussion continues’—a shot of it in a Nollywood movie usually means someone affluent is about to show up. They are no slouches, with even the base 2.4 litres boasting of 190hp. But then the true sleepers are the Accords with the 3.0V6-preferably alongside a 6-speed manual. These spit out 244hp and are capable of a 0-60 run in 5.9 seconds and have a top speed of a whooping 145mph!

8.2004 Volvo V70R

The Volvo has almost never been known to be an eye catcher. Apart from probably being known as the safest cars on the road, they are pretty much plain in every other aspect. Except for the ‘boss of the village’ role they seen to play in a handful of Nollywood movies, most Volvos are relegated to a life of driving grandma and grandpa to church. But then if Grandpa (or grandma) happen to decide he (or she) needs a few good doses of adrenalin and go for a Volvo V20R wagon, be assured you won’t see their gray hair as they pass you on the highway-heck, you won’t even see the car sef. The 2.5 litre turbocharged 5 cylinder that breathes out a whole 300 horses will make sure of that. This sleeper is capable of a 0-60 of 5.5 secs and a limited top speed of 155mph

7.2005 Nissan Altima 3.5 SE-R

Nissan is the maker of several purebred sports cars like the Fairladyz, 350z and the GT-R so it’s normal some sports car might have leaked out into that generic Nissan doing 40Kmph in the outer lane. In cases like the Altima, cosmetic differences between the normal 2.5 and sleeper 3.5 se-r are so subtle. Many Nigerian owners of the V6 3.5 SE-R might not even know the260hp weapon they have on their hand; good enough for a 0-60 time of 6.1 secs and a top speed of 140mph. All they may know is “manual no dey be me , make I sell am go buy automatic End of discussion.”

6. 2007 Mazda Mazdaspeed 6

Ahh, remember the ubiquitous mazda 626? Back then it was the car to die for. Mazda’s still very much alive though, making some of the finest looking cars to fit a ‘normal’ budget. Every once in a while, a Mazda engineer will take one too many Orijin and decide to make a decent car, much faster. That’s probably what brought forth the Mazda mazdaspeed 6. The 2.3 litre turbocharged and direct injected four- cylinder engine puts out 270 horsepower which takes it to 60 in 5.4 seconds- and tops out at 149mph

5. 2011 Hyundai Sonata SE 2.0T

Remember when the Hyundai was looked down upon by everyone for their plain exteriors and horrible scratchy plastic interiors? Those days are far gone, sleeping with the ancestors and hopefully Boko Haram. Unbelievers of this fact, looking down on Hyundais from their Beemers, Lexuses and BMWs stand risk of being humbled by the Sonata, quickly. Its 4cylinder 2.0 turbo is puts out an amazing 274 horsepower, which takes it to 60mph in 6.0 seconds. It will then top out at a whooping 153mph.

4. 1994 GMC Suburban Lingenfelter

The average Nigerian will probably not know a Suburban. It’s that huge land whale of an SUV that you see roaming the roads around any American Embassy. Not been to the American Embassy? Ok, see those big black suvs that the ‘killers’ in several movies love using? The ones that almost always crash? Ahaa, na Suburban dat. In the US, they aren’t exactly the fastest things around, despite their V8s. They are the cars of choice for the FBI and farmers and dudes that need to tow stuff, as well as rappers, who call them Escalades for some strange reason. Well starting in 1994, GMC sold a limited run of ‘special’ Burbs retuned by Lingenfelter. Those folk dropped a whooping 9.9liters of engine that gives off 550 horsepower and 705 pound-feet of torque. This takes this 3 ton beast to 60 miles an hour in 4.7 seconds. I’ve tried my best to search for a top speed but nobody has had the balls to find out.

3.2004 Subaru Forester XT turbo

While, I’m on Subarus let me quickly mention this car. Like many other subarus it look kinda ordinary- in my opinion, the boxy shape is even ….errmm ugly-ish. But then if you are drunk enough to race one at a trafficlight, odds are that you’ll be quickly slapped in the face by its 224 hp, 2.5 turbo engine which takes it to 60 in 5.3 seconds flat, and will make it pass a quarter mile in 13.8 seconds. For reference, this is just 0.3 secs slower than a Porsche Cayenne turbo. It will then top out a little south of 130mph.

2.2006 subaru legacy GT

The Subaru legacy is yet another discreet car, condemned to a life of very little head turns and the butt of plenty ‘why didn’t you just buy a camry na?’ arguments. This makes it all the more insulting to your manly hood when this, this ----thing, especially in its caravan/estate form overtakes you and your Honda Accord at speeds exceeding 200kmph. The Legacy GT’s 2.5 turbo intercooled engine puts out 250hp to all 4 wheels which gives it a 0-60 time of 5.2 seconds and an electronically limited top speed of 136mph.

1. 2013 Ford Taurus SHO

My first pick is not a very common car on naija roads, but then maybe I don’t often see it ‘cos it kinda resembles an Accord Evil Spirit on steroids. Weighing over 2 tons it’s no small car. To propel its fat ass at into the horizon, the engine bay is filled with a twin-turbo, direct-injection 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 that spits out 365hp and 350 lb-ft of torque. This allows this fat boy to do 60 in approximately 5.2seconds and hit a limited top speed of 130mph. But then, if that’s too slow for your testerone gland, you can always go for the Hennessey version that has 435 horses, good for a 0-60 time of just 4.3 seconds and a top speed north of 150mph, or 0; if you don’t turn left.

Hello guys! (and gals!). I’ve spent a good part of my life wandering Cartalk, and have seen it all, from Siena ’s awesome Hilux, to Denn ’s interesting Bug restore, to all those ridiculously easy ‘quizzes’ Autos-bay likes putting up for some reason.

Well, today I decided to get off my lazy butt and write a bit on my pet delight, the sleeper. To the greenhorns, a sleeper is a car that looks generic on the outside but packs a punch in acceleration and brute speed. I’ve tried my best to some omit fast looking cars like the Dodge charger as well as a whole lotta German metal ‘cos in naija, dem all be motor (be it Audi A8 or Mercedes A class)!

Ok, enough chit-chat; here we go! Feel free to add yours!

Does it mean you won't be swapping out the dash? By the way do put up the pics of your Lexuses; you might even get a buyer here!

I must admit...the list is pretty darn accurate....only that its for the 2011 model year, so lots of the attached pics are inaccurate. These cars were known to have 0 fatalities though the 2011ish model years.

All I see here is sin, sin, sin.....not a single Bible verse to back it up..

Thats why Africa doesnt progress..just assume it is 'cos it sounds right!! smh..

The rear quarter kinda reminds me of some hyundai......ahaaa, hyundai vera cruz

GAZZUZZ:

Lomomike still uses toyota brands, 2 for that matter.

Nah winch de that him carinaII

With all this carina wahala? u gotta admire the faith of this guy...make I spread my mat again jor.

Chai!!! lomomike has scared me away from toyota.......dis your motor be NIGHTMARE personalized!!!

Chai!!! lomomike has scared me away from toyota.......dis motor be NIGHTMARE personalized!!!

Mine was a 90s hyundai excel, those were crapbuckets, even in stock version- Unfortunately the one i was driven in was a LMAO- Locally Modified Ass Obliterator.

Being as some typical Ghanian taxis, shocks were as existent as the unicorns and fairies in your backyard- even microscopic bumps were transmitted undiluted to the bum. The floorboards had rusted through and the noxious gases from the sawed off exhaust filled the entire car. I had to sit precariously , lest I put a foot in a wrong place - a rust breakthrough would have resulted in the mother of all friction burns! I endured this uncomfortable, noxious, noisy trip: all 2km of it..... 'cos apparently 2k was all it took to burst its overinflated, threadbare tires.

Brothers and sisters, you can do anything if you put your heart to it. Now go punch that politician in the face