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Originally Posted by Irunelevens  I wasn't aware that taking out the carpet/backseat/sound deadening made a car less safe in a crash... too many people attach weight with safety. Weight *can* be a decent indicator of how good a car will do in a crash because weight *can* show how well the structure of a car is built. But some cars have very strong platforms and hardly weigh anything. So weight is not even close to the best indicator of how well a car will do in a crash. If you keep your trunk loaded with 1000lbs worth of sandbags does it make your car safer? |
If you are nut cutting weight out then it does not matter. Hatches are light as it is, barley 2,000 pounds. I can't see that car being under 2,000 pounds with driver though but 1,800 is doable... I just don't see it in that car, if he got it weighed and people saw it then I would beleive it.
This is why you can take a 400hp car and make it fast.
4550lbs. N/A 530rwhp
Honda 1800lbs 340whp
Say a second per 1,000 pounds.... so weight alone the Honda will run 2.5 or so second quicker and if about 100 hp is worth a tenth then the Caddy has a .2 or so advandage so in theory the Caddy would need to pick up 2.3 seconds to make up for the weight.