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Originally Posted by brandonblt2
When I look at 0 to 60 times from Car and Driver for a 2016 accord it's 5.6 sec for the V6 and 7.0 sec for the 4 cylinder. Base Camry's are a bit slower at around 8 seconds with the V6 at 5.8 sec. Our cars have a 0 to 60 of 7.1 seconds with a stick if you dump the clutch you can get 6.3 seconds and around 8 sec with an auto. In real world testing an accord is probably beating us most of the time. If you have an auto you will match a base Camry.
And sure everyone will define fast and slow differently but when comparing the twins to other sports cars that people cross shop with the twins are slower than most.
Ecoboost Mustang - 5 seconds
V6 Camaro - 5.3 seconds
WRX - 5.3 seconds
Civic Type R - 5.4 seconds
Golf GTI - 5.9 seconds
Miata - 5.8 seconds
Ford Focus RS - 4 seconds
Honda Civic Si - 6.8 seconds
Using the best case 0 to 60 time the twins only beat the Honda Si. It's at the bottom of the list so it's slower than most sports cars that it is cross shopped with which is ok since that is not what the car was meant for. What it lacks in acceleration it makes up for in handling.
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And that list makes up a teenny tiny segment of the cars on the road and really a totally different class. The list of "slower" cars than the Twins will have several hundred entries. The AVERAGE time for cars is around 8 seconds so the twins are above average no matter how you look at it.
And I will point out that all those times are the best squeezed out of them as well.
This argument that the times for the twins have to be forced but every other single listed time is a just a leisurely press of the pedal and off you go is a farce.