0-60 for your first car?

[BarbaricAvatar]

I used to pride myself that i'd never been beaten off the lights in my 1986 Vauxhall Belmont, though with the benefit of hindsight i was probably was the only one racing every time! I'm sure 0-60 was double figures, but it felt like light speed at 17!

[Wild Rumpus]

A rocket-like 18.4seconds for my 1975 Mini 1000, I replaced it with a 1968 VW Beetle 1200 which took a glacial 32.1 seconds.

[ayman82]

'93 Micra 1.0 around 17.4 seconds it would seem.

[Earthdweller]

25secs ... top speed 77 mph

Though to be fair to it .... it never felt that fast lol

Morris Minor 1000

[anonymous-user]

1972 Mini 1000

22s

[kambites]

I think the book figure was around 11-12 seconds on four-star; probably about 10 seconds on super unleaded once I'd finished fiddling with it (it was running about 115bhp at the flywheel, I think).

1974 MGB Roadster.

[stupidbutkeen]

was a yellow mini 850cc and it took around 28ish secs

[Neith]

Around 8.7 from a 2001 Toyota Celica VVTi with an almighty 138bhp.

Handled pretty well but was utterly gutless.

[DarrenGSY]

Peugeot 309 1.6, 11.8s according to carfolio.com. Thought it was quite fast compared to my mates who had things like Metro or 1.1L Escort

[J4CKO]

1969 MK1 Capri 1600 GT, about 12 seconds.

Was a 20 year old car when I had it !

[Ultrafunkula]

Ford Orion (1984) 1.6GL - 79bhp and 0-60 10.4 according to the Parkers booklet (I pretty much memorised the book from reading it in WH Smiths when I was at college). I suspect the time was not accurate.

[swisstoni]

J4CKO said:

1969 MK1 Capri 1600 GT, about 12 seconds.

Was a 20 year old car when I had it !

That's petty much what they had back in the day as well.

[RobXjcoupe]

1975 Mk2 escort 1.1 on 12" wheels and drum brakes front and rear with no servo.
I've no idea of how long it took to hit 60 but it took longer to stop lol

[Flibble]

Audi A3 1.6 - 10.6s to 60, but it didn't feel that punchy.

[jonindorset]

1983 VW Polo C (Breadvan!)
1043cc, 4 speed manual, 40bhp, 700kg!!! no PAS, no brake servo, no electric windows, no air-con, mono MW radio.
0-60mph in 20 seconds, top speed 84mph.

Different times!

[Scott-R]

~6.5 seconds I think. E39 540i (4.4L V8!)

If that car hadn't of had traction control, I honestly think I would have killed myself in it. I was way too inexperienced a driver for a car that powerful (even if hot hatches have now completely caught up, power wise!)

[donkmeister]

Fiat Uno, with the 1.0i.e. FIRE dontcha know? 45bhp and a close ratio 5-speed box. Well, bouncing off the limiter in top at 107mph meant the ratios couldn't be too far apart.
17.7s for that beast to get to 60mph.

Toyota studied it as the original concept for the GT86, true story, skinny tyres and a 700kg kerbweight lend themselves to low-speed tail-out shenanigans.

[JBT]

Carfolio says 17 sec. and Parkers say 14.7 sec. for my first car, an '83 Peugeot 205 1.1GL. It felt like neither were achievable at the time, though it was already 23 years old and very 'maladroit'.

[chrisb92]

1.0 litre Corsa C - around 16/17 seconds I believe. Absolute POS car!!

[Limpet]

26.5 secs. Mini 850

Mine may have been a bit quicker than that as it had some carb tweaks, and had probably lost 20% of its body weight to rust!

Loved that car.