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Eh. What "matters" is pretty debatable when it comes to cars. I very rarely accelerate from 0-60mph in one single acceleration, same as I rarely reach top speed
by untog 10y ago
Eh. What "matters" is pretty debatable when it comes to cars. I very rarely accelerate from 0-60mph in one single acceleration, same as I rarely reach top speed.
- jonknee 10y agoMost people accelerate a lot more than they take a few laps on a track though...
- forgetsusername 10y ago>Most people accelerate a lot more than they take a few laps on a track though... Lap times give a better "all-around" indication of performance: speed, handling, acceleration.
- jonknee 10y agoFor production cars top speed doesn't matter, after you get past highway speeds it is meaningless. Maybe it's me, but I'd rather a car that goes 0-60 really fast and can only go 100MPH than one that goes 0-60 slower but can go 200MPH.
- forgetsusername 10y agoAnd I'd like one that can corner on rails, which is arguably more valuable than both speed and acceleration (after all, acceleration, after a certain point, is also useless). Hence why lap times are an interesting metric.
- galdosdi 10y agoI often do, nearly every time I stop at a toll booth (toll roads, bridges, and tunnels are very common in my area -- I'm guessing they're uncommon in your area, lucky you). (Of course, being able to do that really quickly, while fun, is not so /useful/ in real life, so it's still pretty debatable what "matters")
- wtetzner 10y agoI find it very useful when merging onto busy roads that don't have a merging lane.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoThis is the reason that the metrics I tend to look for are skidpad rating and 60-0 rating. Turning abruptly at high speed to avoid debris and braking abruptly from highway speeds are both things I do depressingly often.
- vonmoltke 10y agoI rarely do 0-60, but I do ~25-70 almost every day getting on highways.