There was once a time when a fast car might have hit 60 mph in six seconds, and a really fast car might have done the deed in four seconds. These cars weren’t super common, and sometimes set you back your life earnings. Nowadays, even everyday EVs can absolutely smoke the muscle cars and supercars of old. How fast are today’s cars? How about a 0 mph to 60 mph time that you can measure in feet?
Brian wrote about how the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X is stupidly fast on a drag strip. How fast? Ash78, help me out here:
Whoa.
And just inferring from that timesheet, the 60′ trap was 1.38s, meaning that if the car hits 60 in ~1.7s, then we’re talking about 0-60 in under 100 feet or so.
I look out the window at two things 100′ apart and I can’t even wrap my head around this.
Yeah, so without the reaction time, it’s under a second to the 60′ trap line, so let’s say maybe 150′ (max) for 0-60. Still wild to visualize in a street legal car.
DialMforMiata offers a hilarious take:
It’ll be the fastest thing ever….
To cross the auction block at Barrett-Jackson in 2046 with the plastic still on the seats.
Speaking of fast, Matt talked about how the average full-size pickup truck costs about the equivalent of 14,185 Big Macs. Would that come out of your body fast? 5VZ-F’Ever and Ever, Amen:
I fear the Morning Dump tomorrow after 14,185 Big Macs today…
LTDScott:
I wonder if the writer from the Detroit Free Press also has a sense of automotive history and found this as funny as I did:
“Barra has said that despite lower-than-expected consumer demand, GM’s electric vehicles remain the company’s North Star.”
Sid Bridge:
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man an F-150 Raptor and he goes 15,000 days before he can have another fish.
Have a great evening, everyone!
That North Star comment was mine, not Michael Beranek’s.
Yup, although mine was pretty good too.
I’m not mad. These folks bust their asses to give us the best site on the web, a few things are bound to slip.
Sorry about that! I think I read the right comment but, somehow the wrong name. Maybe it’s from having my brain fried from walking under the Florida sun all day. Fixed! 🙂
No big deal, I’m not here for the COTDs, but I’ll take em 😉
I little quibble… growing up reading car magazines, they always made a distinction between “fast” and “quick” in the stats summary table. Fast means top speed and is measured in speed, while quick is about e.g 0-60 and is measured in time.But I do like the additional measure of 0-60 in 100 feet!
I will now go and yell at some clouds…
Way back when, my son played soccer. He was the fastest kid on the field by a wide margin. However, he was not even close to the quickest. It took 4-5 steps for him to get to speed. There was another kid that was quick as hell, but not as fast. This kid would be at full speed as soon as he thought about moving. This kid could get the ball and be 10-15 feet away before my son got up to speed. Guess who got ended up going up to college for free on a soccer scholarship….
But these two were the best example of fast vs quick I’ve ever seen.
Also, Yoshi vs Bowser in pretty much every version of Mario Kart 🙂
It was a timely comment because my home office looks down on my neighbor’s house, and he’s a Boomer with a black C8 (he traded in his old C7 Z06 because it was too intense for a lot of daily driving)
Our two mailboxes are about 100′ apart, so it was pretty easy to imagine…even though he never drives like that, and he washes the car every time he takes it out, rain or shine.
I’ve been thinking that this whole time. Speed and acceleration are very distinct things so it’s a significant term of art.
Oops, that wasn’t my comment!
A part of me thinks that instead of calling it the ZR1X, they could have called it the X-Ray.
And that part of you would be correct.
They’re using the Toyota school of naming. It’ll look great in your driveway next to your BZ4X
Part of me is glad you didn’t use pig-latin when writing this comment. Wait, no all of me is glad.
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