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Originally Posted by Hersbird
The 1/4 mile has been the benchmark for measuring acceleration for 75+ years now. I would say the 1/8 mile is an acceptable substitute but there can be some one trick ponys to game the 1/8 mile. The 60 foot times will be included in the 1/8 or the 1/4 mile, but a time to speed like 0-60mph or 0-100mph is hard to accurately measure by comparison, especially 70 years ago. Time to distance is easy to measure down to a thousandth of a second. Plus a time to distance can be done as a race, where time to speed is hard to judge as a race.
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i will agree measuring something based on distance is easier but we have gps now that are accurate like "dragy" the issue with quarter mile underpower cars (we talking about perfomance cars with under 250hp) is they do accelerate well but after first 130km their momentium is way lower compared to a high horsepower heavier sedan to explain it better
lets take as example a audi rs6 c6 will do 0-60 in 4.2 secs a exige s could do in 3.9 but the thing the 100-200 of rs6 will be a lower time than exige s like a exige could do 13 sec quarter mile and rs6 could do it 11 secs the best comparison might for cars like those is 1/8 and 60-160km