the 70 percenter

ImportConvert · 05-01-2011, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Davey

I like the 0-100 time myself. It's easy to gear a wheezy little econobox low and get to 60 in a relatively big hurry, but without some horsepower, you're going to run out of steam well before 100.

Plus, AWD cars have a huge advantage on a 0-60 run so long as you don't mind potentially breaking axles and gears.

But anyway, yeah, I like to feel some G's when I corner and put my foot down, but I'm not interested in going 100% unless it's somewhere very safe for the car, me, and anyone else.

Even 0-100 doesn't really get a measure of a sports car.

0-150 takes into account power, gearing, and aerodynamics.

I just don't like the "0" part, because I am not going to "launch" a car all the time on the street, whereas I am likely as not to run it from 30-80 or something quite often. I'm not about clutch jobs.