Fast!

Nice!

Do you realize we spend thousands and thousands of dollars to "beat" the virtual opponents that may or may not line up at the stoplight?

Maybe there should be speed cameras all over the place. It'd save all of us money and we could duke it out on the track instead of mag racing...

I like the recent car mag comparo that noted: "The current Camry is faster than the Ferrari Testerossa."

We don't "need" faster cars. Everything is relative.

 

s2000 = slow

 

Why would you say that? 0-60 is more relevant in that it's performance you can use every day w/o getting arrested. I'm not going to pretend I don't hit much higher speeds in my car, but every time I do I take a calculated risk that I'm not gong to get busted and punished hard for it.

 

0-60 is meaningless under ~6 seconds. Because at that point tenths of a second can be a big differences on a track, or totally negated. Traction becomes the limiting factor, not power. Let's stop pretending we don't break the law occasionally, and just use 0-100 to get some noticeable difference between cars once 0-60 gets down to 6 seconds. Traction will still be a factor, but less so.

And the very reason 0-60 was ever a metric is because that indicates merging ability from a freeway on-ramp. Who seriously believes a GT500 is going to have a hard time merging, so they should buy an M3? No car that can hit 60 mph in 6 seconds is going to have a hard time getting up to speed by the end of the ramp, so the metric loses it's value except as trivia.

 

0-60 is lame
0-anything is kind of lame as I don't care about drag racing and that is still a function of traction a lot more then even a slow roll. I like 30-150..they should just use that from now on. That would let me know just how much faster cars are going to be on the straights, on track, then mine.

 

100%...

1/4 mile trap speed works for me as well

 

outside of the launch, an M6 will run with a 997 TT up top...

 

0-100mph still take into account too much of traction and how well the launch was, as well as driver capability...average 1/4 trap speed FTW

and i think you meant "LS3 c6" as opposed to LT3?

 

One point, the M6 has seven bite size acceleration gears instead of 4 (many US cars Viper and Vette etc.. have 5 and 6 being OD and super OD ratios with no acceleration value).

That probably does not show up in the 0-100 mph when these cars are just in 3rd buy by 150 maybe you are getting into the gas saving OD ratios with some cars.

 

I will say these numbers are just one small piece of the pie. For example as noted the R8 is slowish by these standards. I mean OK it's never quicker than a $40K Vette, but it shouldn't be since it's power (less) and weight (more).

But then we look at (for an example) EVO magazine has track times:

Gallardo SL 1:21
R8 1:22
997 GT3 1:23
M6 1:24

I don't want that to mean the R8 is always quicker than a GT3 and who knows the driver or the conditions could have been different, but just to point out that track times can be all over the map but (it would seem) acceleration is fairly easy to reproduce.

What I mean as an absurd example, lets say I could get in a Veyron and snap off 0-100 in 6 sec (just step on the gas). But if I got in a race car and a top driver got in the same car he could be several seconds faster than me with no difference in the car just the driver.