How lotus elise/exige accelerate so fast without much power?

[jimchitas]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The Elise was on my short list when my 1996 Legacy was rear ended for precisely the reason that hit has high performance figures and d decent fuel economy. I think it has a Toyota engine.

That said, my 600cc motorcycle goes 0-60 in like 2 seconds and costs practically nothing used. I'd take anything with 2 wheels over anything with 4 for the fun factor at a fraction of the cost.

sadly i dont like bikes

[Hersbird]

Originally Posted by jimchitas

i will agree and like you said 60 foot is pretty good comparison in terms of acceleration.
i will disagree with quarter mile in a sub 200 horsepower car its not really good comparison i mean the first 120 km for sub200 you might seen good numbers but 120-2xx km pretty much every 'underpowered' just loses this fast "momentium" rarely i seen a underpowered having a 100-200 km time under 10 secs yea drivers matters and tranmission but i believe is more important a good acceleration from 40-140km for a fun good handling car then you looking at high power car now back in my question i found out they use bigger tires in rear for better traction same with some front wheel drive cars im still wondering if i can any information about suspension setup (damping,height,...) but thanks

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.

[freebeard]

I suspect 1/8th mile is due to constraint on the real estate available.

With the introduction of the Christmas Tree at the starting line it's possible to sort out the driver's reaction time, a negative time is a red light.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by jimchitas

sadly i dont like bikes

My wife says she loves a thrill too, except for her threshold for fun is different than mine.

...I must have been on the brink of passing out on that last post, but people seemed to get the gist.

[jimchitas]

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.

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

[freebeard]

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100-200km/hr is easier to convert to freedom units. How's about the flying mile?

https://newatlas.com › bentley-continental-gt-flying-mile › 37421
Idris Elba sets "Flying Mile" UK land speed record in Bentley ...
The "Flying Mile" takes the average speed of a vehicle across two rolling-start runs of a mile (1.6 km) each. Elba achieved an average speed of 180.361 mph (290.263 km/h).

One can do that pretty much anywhere. Bonneville Speedway has 2.5 to 9 miles.