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 Fastest P Plate Legal Cars In 2016/2017. - Ideas for cars in NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia.  

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McLeod
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Post #1 post 1st November 2016 - 11:11 AM
The restriction is basically maximum power to weight ratio of 130kW per tonne, which applies to all P Plate license holders in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia.

This rule supercedes the old blanket rule of all turbo and V8 car's being banned.

However, in Queensland, this new rule is only applies to vehicles manufactured after 2010, for all vehicles before 2010 the car cannot be a V8, or Turbo.

So the simplest formula for finding the fastest car you can drive, is to find ones with the highest possible power to weight ratio closest to 130kw/tonne.

Since most affordable small cars are about 1,350-1,500kg's, you're looking for a car with around 150kW of output and some great ideas are:

  1. Toyota Supra JZA80 - 164kW (non-turbo)
  2. Nissan 300ZX Z32 - 166kW (non-turbo)
  3. Honda S2000 - 177kW
  4. Honda Integra TypeR (DC5) - 150kW
  5. Nissan Skyline R34 GT - 147kW (non-turbo)
  6. Toyota Celica - 142kW
  7. Nissan Pulsar SSS - 140kW
  8. Mitsubishi GTO non-turbo IMPORT
  9. Alfa Romeo GTV and 105 coupe
  10. Nissan 200SX non-turbo (Australian delivered S14)


And if you're into large sedans you can go for something with a lot of torque to compensate for that lack of power, such as the Holden Commodore, Ford Falcon, Mitsubishi Magna's in V6 guise are going to be your pick of the bunch.

In NSW, you can search by make/model/year, which is pretty awesome: http://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/sta...strictions.html

In Queensland, you can search by rego or VIN, which is pretty shit really: https://www.service.transport.qld.gov.au/hp...ml?windowId=c36

In Victoria, you can search by make/model/year, which like NSW is pretty damn good: http://vicroads.redbook.com.au/

Lastly, in South Australia, it's worse than Queensland.. you have to sift through loads of information: http://mylicence.sa.gov.au/safe-driving-ti...owered-vehicles

The other restrictions on P plate holders is pretty full on... such as only being allowed to have one passenger under the age of 21 between 11pm and 5am... or in NSW you can't go over 90km/h on the highway.

 

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Kapinate
Post #2

Just to correct you on QLD.
To put it simply...
- Pre-2010 a Moderate Power Exemption is available for turbocharged/supercharged cars that have a P/W ratio under 125KW/t (e..g. 2001 - 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX). This exemption is guaranteed, given a) you can provide a manufactures statement stating the car's weight, power ect. and b) the car is in its factory state.
- Post 2010 for a turbocharged/supercharged car with a P/W ratio under 130kw/t an exemption is not needed. (e.g. VW Golf GTi)
- ANYTHING turbocharged/supercharged over these power to weight ratios with respect to each timeframe will require a High Power exemption.

Grith
Post #3

The Honda S2000 discussed above is a banned vehicle in NSW for P Platers as it is too light for its engine power. It was a car I was looking at now as I couldn’t justify the expense when they were new. I haven’t checked all the other suggestions so suggest people use the website links in the artical. I was just researching what I could buy to teach my daughter to drive in whilst having some fun myself with a manual sports car again. I have selected a series 1 Audi TT 1.8 turbo quattro roadster which due to the extra body weight required for the Convertible body and the extra weight of the four wheel drive quattro just squeaks in under the 130kw per ton. I really couldn’t justify $90,000 for one of these when new and purchased the outrageously revy Type R Honda Civic instead back then. 🙂

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