Wouldn't 0-30 times be much more useful to know than 0-60?

[PumpkinSteve]

I was just wondering to myself, why don't car manufacturers list the 0-30mph time in their brochures? As a buyer I'd be much more interested to know this rather than 0-60, when I'm driving on a road that is 60mph I've usually come off a slower road. Actually accelerating from 0-60 is done far less often that 0-30 in everyday driving, correct?

[falkster]

Don't autocar do 0-30 times?

[ewenm]

0-anything is pretty irrelevant to me. I don't do full-bore starts so in gear acceleration figures are much more relevant to how a car feels to drive.

[DanielC4GP]

ewenm said:

0-anything is pretty irrelevant to me. I don't do full-bore starts so in gear acceleration figures are much more relevant to how a car feels to drive.

Some magazines do 20-50 times or something similar which I agree is much more helpful to know. Something along the lines of 40-70 times would be helpful too, as to know how easily a car will overtake when drving along rural roads.

[Hugo a Gogo]

PumpkinSteve said:

I was just wondering to myself, why don't car manufacturers list the 0-30mph time in their brochures? As a buyer I'd be much more interested to know this rather than 0-60, when I'm driving on a road that is 60mph I've usually come off a slower road. Actually accelerating from 0-60 is done far less often that 0-30 in everyday driving, correct?

balls-out acceleration, side stepping the clutch at a million revs etc is rarely done on everyday driving, correct?