Sport Compact Car

Sport Compact Car

"Sport Compact Car" is an American car magazine that focuses on modifying and racing sport compacts, usually import model cars. This publication is known for having a more technical approach than most other typical import car magazines and for the substantial number of project cars they have developed.

"Sport Compact Car" (SCC) is published monthly by Primedia Inc., and as of 2008 is in its 20th year of continuous publication.

Ultimate Street Car Challenge

The Ultimate Street Car Challenge is an annual car comparison put on by "Sport Compact Car" magazine. The entrants are tuned cars mostly of Japanese origin (fitting with the focus of SCC) that are ostensibly voted in by readers but selected by the editors. They must be street-legal, and are rated on a number of attributes including the base price, car show ability, drivability, emissions, fuel mileage, a grandma/girlfriend test (to determine if a grandmother or girlfriend would find it an acceptable means of transportation), gross display of horsepower (a burnout contest), a guru panel, peak power, power delivery, a road course, the standing quarter mile (400 m), 0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) acceleration, a 60 m (200 ft) skidpad, and 100-0 km/h (60-0 mph) braking distance.

External links

* [http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/ Official Website]


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