Many are curious about how much their car weighs?
Well, if you are one of those, then this post is for you. We will talk about it in detail as well as ways to reduce the total weight.
The weight of a car totally depends upon the type of car you are asking about.
First, let’s see how many types of car are there in the market
Basic types of cars available in the market
1. Hatchbacks
Example – Tata Nano, Ford Figo, VW Polo
2. Sedan
Like – Tata Indigo, Honda City, Toyota, Corolla, Ciaz
3. SUV ( support utility vehicle )
Like – Toyota Fortuner, Mahindra Scorpio
4. Utility / Multipurpose (MUV/MPV)
Like – Mercedes viano, toyota alphard
5. Convertibles
Like – Mini Cooper Convertible, Audi A3 Cabriolet
6. Station Wagon
Like – Volvo V90, Mercedes-Benz
7. Couple
Like Audi R8, Ford Mustang
8. Pick-up
Like – Mahindra Bolero, Isuzu D-Max
Now let’s discuss the weight of the cars of all types
A person always purchases a car of a size which suits his family or depends upon the usage. It might be purchased small cars or large ones.
More to clarify it, the average weight of a large car could be around 350 – 400 kg. On the other hand, a small car can weigh around 150 – 200 kg.
Kilogram is something to which we are more familiar with. So as per this, we have a list of car weights in kg mentioned below:-
List of car engine weight in kg
| Bugatti Veyron | 400kg |
| Cadillac Sixteen | 316kg |
| Chrysler Viper GTS | 295kg |
| Chevrolet Corvette C4 | 281kg |
| McLaren F1 | 266kg |
| Porsche 99 Turbo | 260kg |
| Porsche 928 | 260kg |
| Mercedes-Benz SL65/CL65 AMG: | 253kg |
| Pagani Zonda F | 250kg |
| BMW E60 M5 | 240kg |
| Porsche 964C4 | 238kg |
| Ferrari 456GT | 235kg |
| Maserati MC12 | 225kg |
| Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren | 232kg |
| Ferrari Enzo | 225kg |
| Audi S8 5.2 | 220kg |
| 655ci V8 From Indy | 220kg |
| Koenigsegg CCR | 215kg |
| Lexus LS400 (94) | 210kg |
| BMW 740i (92) | 210kg |
| Porsche Carrera GT | 205kg |
| Porsche 996 Carrera | 204kg |
| Porsche 997 Carrera S | 201kg |
| Chevrolet Corvette C6 | 201kg |
| Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06 | 200kg |
| Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG | 232kg |
| Ferrari F50 | 188kg |
| Maserati GranSport | 184kg |
| Ferrari 360 Modena | 184kg |
| Porsche Boxster MK1 | 182kg |
| Chevrolet Corvette C5 | 177kg |
| Honda S2000 | 175kg |
| Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale | 173kg |
| Audi A4 3.2 V6 | 170kg |
| Ferrari F355 | 168kg |
| Mercedes-Benz C55 AMG | 167kg |
Moving towards some of the statistics for famous cars:-
The world’s heaviest car is the Rolls-Royce Phantom, which weighs in at an astounding 6,052 lbs.
Lightest weight car in the US market is the Toyota Tercel, the Honda Fit is the 10th lightest car in the U.S. market with weighs just over 2,500 pounds, the Mazda MX-5 Miata at 2,332 pounds, the Toyota Yaris at 2,315 pounds and the Chevy Spark at 2,246 pounds..Nissan Versa at 2,400 pounds.
As while buying a vehicle, our first priority is to know about horsepower and after that we move to the next specification.
On average, a car has 120 horsepower engines
By and large, a 120-strength motor. Bigger SUVs frequently have a 200-strength motor, and littler autos may just have a 70-drive motor.
And people have some curiosity to know about the average weight of the car that is around 2,371 pounds it could be below it or above also but we considered 2371 pounds as average weight of the car
Similarly, 4 cylinder engine weight is around 300lbs , v8 engine weight is around 575 lbs
Now most people want lightweight cars with more powerful acceleration so here we will talk about ways to reduce total car weight
How to reduce car weight?
We all want weight reduction in cars
Here we provide you some tips to reduce car weight. Be patient and read all of them. Surely it will be helpful to you
People apply their ideas by themselves in many ways like to :-
- Remove AC compressor as it weighs around 10kg
- Shifting the heavier car batteries to lighter ones
- Or they remove old boxes, which is not much usable for daily use
- Some people remove some unnecessary electric parts to reduce weight
How to make a car lighter for racing
Here are the best possible ways to make your racing car lighter.
As we talk about racing cars so it is very necessary to remove unwanted weight and make your car lighter which can fly in the air and helps you to win the race.
For this, you have to remove rear seats of the weight of 25 kg and no need to carry spare wheels and jacks. You can also remove the electric seat which can make the difference of 35 kg and replace it with the lighter ones.
1. DRILLING HOLES
Everything is not necessary to start or move a car. So on this basis, some people started making holes in metal parts, although it could make your car less reliable and moreover you can remove door hinges and lock
Or you can drive your car without AC and we know the car engine is itself packed completely so it’s difficult to do much modification and some of the parts like water pumps, flywheel can’t be removed so that you can make them lightweight by ordering it personally to a factory.
2. EXTERIOR PARTS
In this, we are talking about some of the exterior hardware parts which you can change into lighter ones like a car door, bonnet, front wings or if your roof is made up of aluminium so you can convert it into a fibre element which is much lighter than aluminium.
3. WINDOWS
Although in today’s generation our automobile industry upgraded itself high and tried to make cars of lighter weight and higher durability.
Here, companies use window glasses made up of polycarbonate which is lighter but in case you have a window made up of glass so you can change it with polycarbonate or you can also change the wheel to lighter ones because the lighter the wheel lighter will be the suspension which increases your acceleration speed.
Or at the extreme level you can fill the fuel tank up to half, it will also reduce the car weight, but before doing that take your journey into consideration as if this fuel was enough to complete the route.
Does car engine weight affect performance?
Somehow we have heard from our parents or friends that if the car engine is heavy, it is more powerful as compared to cars with lighter engines.
We know heavy engines give us more powerful acceleration but also affects braking and steering handling.
Now auto industries are not making much heavier engines, they are fitting turbo engines directly
In another language, car making companies generate small engines with more horsepower
So that car can also be lightweight and more durable.
Conclusion
Weight of a big car could be around 350 – 400 kg. On the other hand, the small car could have 150 – 200 kg.
And for making it much lighter you can see all the above steps like drilling holes, changing rear seat, removing AC or aluminium car roof, fixing polycarbonate window instead of glass window
I hope this information will be useful to you.