The American Hoonigan team, which in addition to preparing cars for racing also runs its own blog, presented a new episode of its This vs. That project. Representatives of the British auto industry took part in the new race, and quite rare ones at that – the unusual Nash Metropolitan is opposed by the Vauxhall Nova, and the duelists are seriously tuned for straight-line racing. So much so that the dragsters resemble their ancestors only visually and in names.
The 1959 Metropolitan coupe weighs less than a ton under the hood and has a 680-horsepower 8.1-liter naturally aspirated V8, which is combined with a 3-speed automatic transmission and rear-wheel drive.
The 1989 Nova weighs about 750 kilograms, which accounts for 700 horsepower, developed by a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. The engine is mated to a 5-speed manual transmission and front-wheel drive.
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