Your 0-60 times

[sday12]

12.2 you say?

[damci]

3.41 for the bike and 7.9 for the Almera

[Jasandjules]

Well, I'd never do that to my car so there is no way I got 4.4 seconds timed by the OH (so plus or minus 10 seconds on the start/stop). And I've certainly never blatted to 100.........

[Sir Bagalot]

Seat Leon 3.7 seconds.

This was no ordinary Seat Leon...... It was a Hertz Seat Leon

[hyperblue]

It's very difficult to get a decent launch on the road, most cars will never get near their quoted 0-60 mph time. I know my car does 0-102 in 14.0 seconds at Santa Pod, but on the road you'd never get near that, you might lose a second in the first 60ft.

[CraigVmax]

monthefish said:

wackojacko said:

CraigVmax said:

I think a lot of people would be surprised how much slower their car is than quoted or they think it is.

I think that depends on the car I question but as a rule of thumb not many cars can achieve the quoted 0-60 say of a set of traffic lights.

..and not many owners would want to, myself included. (Too mechanically sympathetic to subject my p&j to the kind of abuse required to achieve the ultimate '0-60' time)

Yup same here, done it full bore once at vmax200, was astonished how violent it was but it's just not needed or appropriate day to day

[Jasandjules]

Sir Bagalot said:

Seat Leon 3.7 seconds.

This was no ordinary Seat Leon...... It was a Hertz Seat Leon

I laughed out loud and now have to explain why I am giggling like a loon to my OH.....

[jmcc500]

Bolognese said:

4.9 seconds. Verified on a dyno.

Ummm... You can't measure acceleration rates on a dyno...

Wrt modern cars and repeated standing starts, was most impressed that the MP4-12C could do LC start after LC start ad infinitum with no issues. Unlike a Nissan GTR

Will borrow the Vbox from work and measure my mighty BX Turbo Diesel and come back with a REAL figure. Probably north of 15s...

[TheHeretic]

Vitara... Couldn't tell you. The tax would probably run out before it hit 60.

[Rawwr]

[mattmoxon]

My 2006 Ford Mustang GT officaly timed at 5.61 seconds.

Though for propper bragging rights it is the 1/4 mile times you want.

[Eighteeteewhy]

Rawwr said:

Number of standing starts, 31

Did it get you home?

[jmcc500]

Eighteeteewhy said:

Number of standing starts, 31

Did it get you home?

More to the point - that's mighty impressive for a Ka..?

[CraigVmax]

Yeah, brilliant!

[iiyama]

Sam_68 said:

iiyama said:

On a good day, with heat in the tyre's, dry road and a perfect launch...3ish secs. Engine is making 189bhp, (verified not a guestimate!), car weighs 580Kg's with a full tank and me in it and the final drive is a little on the low side hence the acceleration. Top end is lowish though, bounces off the limiter in 6th at 130mph. Gearbox is sequential and there is electronic gizmos to give clutchless up and down shifts.

Should be enough information there!

Have you actually had it accurately timed though?

Mine for comparison:

Engine making 204bhp, car weighs 429kg with fuel (but excluding driver - say 500-510kg with driver?), similarly low final drive giving 136mph at the limiter, sticky 'track day' tyres (A048's).

Lotus' computers say 3.1 seconds....

Autocar Magazine's timing gear says 3.6 seconds is the best they can manage in practice....

I'm with CraigVmax: everyone who owns a 'Seven' (especially the BEC ones, apparently) can do 3-second 0-60 times... until you actually put them up against accurate timing gear.

I didn't say 3 seconds.....I said 3ish. Big difference. Huge in fact! This should also indicate the fact that it hasn't been accurately timed, otherwise I would have said 2.9!

[AMD87]

evo 7
Speed(mph) Time
0.00 0
10.00 0.38
20.00 0.85
30.00 1.36
40.00 2.07
50.00 2.56
60.00 3.04
70.00 3.82
80.00 4.47
90.00 5.24
100.00 6.45

[iggysport]

Suzuki Ignis Sport: 8.9 to 62 and requires a gear change after 60 to get to 62 so i'm gonna say around 8 seconds to 60 considering that and upgraded filter and some weight reduction.

[Major Fallout]

It is the beauty of driving an automatic car you don't actually like with a full warranty.

Push the accelerator into the engine bay and away you go! Only tyres to worry about, admittedly they do cost a bit (about £350 each last time). But its cheaper than a new clutch!


But after all that, I have more fun hanging back and watching people smoke their clutch alongside me, thinking I'm going to boot it.

[mikearwas]

Recorded a 5.5 second run in my 130i.

[Hasbeen]

My Ozzie Ford Capri 1600cc auto 2+2 convertible, about 16 seconds.

But who the hell cares when you're cruising down the esplanade on the Gold Coast, with the surf on your left, on a hot sunny day, with a gorgeous lady beside you?