I was looking through lap times of different production cars, and there are some wildly out of place cars doing ring laptimes, some cars are faster than they seem they should be, while others are slower than they should be. Which got me thinking how some cars truly get tested in showroom condition, and others get the “marketing” treatment to produce a laptime a showroom car would never touch, solely to sell more cars. Then I found this article that talks exactly about just that.
https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/11012/nurburgring-times-dont-matter
Yep. 5 to 60 is more relevant for real world driving. At least for daily driving.
Especially in the world of launch control where the turbos pre spool
NJ and its ultra short freeway merges say that 0-60 is the all important number, at least for those of us living somewhere with bad highway designs.
😂 merging onto 295 was always a good time in my lighting on 315 radials, except the one time there was snow on the ground… that was sketchy.
Nope. It’s still 5 to 60 that’s more relevant unless you’re doing a 5k clutch dump with flat shifting or using launch mode.
Merging onto 1&9 off of 35 in Woodbridge and having to immediately cut across 2 lanes to make it to route 9 taught me how important that 0-60 really is
or 0 to 30. that’s where most people notice slow acceleration.
I’d say 0-40 is a good metric. Basically how long does it take to hit cruising speed.
0-30 and close to weight capacity. I bought my Rav4 as a work vehicle, and you would be amazed at how much difference not having 400-500 lbs of tools/parts in the back makes.
You don’t want to start at a moving speed as it creates other variables to take into consideration that will affect the time. Starting at 0 will give the most consistent start each time and give replicable results for others.
Nope. You can get consistent times from 5 mph starts. Of course it creates other variables, but it’s more representative of daily driving since a lot of people will regularly floor their car.
But they’re not using launch mode or dumping the clutch from 5k rpm which is what you get when you do 0 to 60 times.
None of these times are relevant for real world driving. My car needs 17 seconds from 0 to 60 (more in the eco mode I’m always using) and it’s always fast enough to keep up with traffic.