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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k
I'm not either. But 0-60 is a good benchmark measurement of how fast a car can accelerate. Unless the vehicle in question is massively powerful and overwhelms its tires or has extremely low torque 0-60 is something to go off of in comparing the car without driving it. If 0-60 takes 7 seconds its a given that you're not gonna get hard shove into your seat when doing a full throttle acceleration from 50-70 mph, or 80-100.  |
Uh, no. If the car does 0-59 in 6.5 seconds, and 0-60 in 7 because it needs to shift, you'll get just as much of a "shove into your seat" as a car that does 0-60 in 2nd gear in 6.6 seconds. It's not the 0-60 time that matters, that depends on gearing. It's the acceleration in the lower gears that determines the "shove into your seat". 0-60 is not a good benchmark of how fast a car accelerates because gearing changes things a lot. I'd say 1/4 / 1/8 mile is marginally better, best is peak acceleration in each gear.
At higher speeds the acceleration is lower anyways, you probably need more power to get a real "shove into your seat" if I'm understanding you correctly.