What 0-60 acceleration would you accept for good fuel economy?

[Formula413]

Originally Posted by BlackDeuceCoupe

Most races are over at 80-ish mph

Originally Posted by BlackDeuceCoupe

At this point, the challenger is usually several car lengths behind you

Dude, who are you racing? You'd be getting walked hard in my neck of the woods...

[igo]

14 seconds was the first thing that popped into my head, but I rarely drive that fast. I would gladly drive a car that got 100mpg and did 0-60 in 20sec.

[dcb]

Is it just me or did the 10-15 seconds bracket make a big jump after BDC started posting street racing videos?

What does THAT tell you

[Katana]

i voted 10-15 as my car is already in that bracket at 0-60 in 13 seconds, i wouldn't like any slower really.

[MetroMPG]

Originally Posted by dcb

Is it just me or did the 10-15 seconds bracket make a big jump after BDC started posting street racing videos?

I'm more surprised by the number of people who have voted for 20+ seconds.

I would have guessed we'd have seen a pretty bell curve between the 4 choices, but it's not turning out that way.

[SuperTrooper]

Let's not forget that sometimes the ability to accelerate provides a safety factor. Last night on my drive home I was following a Wal-mart semi and we reached a long uphill. He started to slow down so I pulled around to pass him. As I got up the the rear wheels of the tractor we started to get close to a lowboy semi hauling a huge dozer going up the hill at about 40 mph. Mr. Wal-mart puts on his blinker and immediately starts to drift into my lane. With guardrail on my left my only choice was to boot it and finish the pass. Thank God Wanda was up to the task. A little extra oomph in reserve is never a bad thing.

[dcb]

Originally Posted by SuperTrooper

Let's not forget that sometimes the ability to accelerate provides a safety factor.

Most of the time it is the cause of the accident

[greenitup]

i don't usually need to accelerate fast but the other day i was hopping on the highway, and i got stuck behind a van as i was getting on, they were going 15 right with the merger, you better bet that i used my full engine power. (to get up to 50 mph in a 65)

I think that they should make a thing like honda's ima hybrid thing, so you can have a little bit extra power if you need it.

[Clev]

Originally Posted by SuperTrooper

Let's not forget that sometimes the ability to accelerate provides a safety factor. Last night on my drive home I was following a Wal-mart semi and we reached a long uphill. He started to slow down so I pulled around to pass him. As I got up the the rear wheels of the tractor we started to get close to a lowboy semi hauling a huge dozer going up the hill at about 40 mph. Mr. Wal-mart puts on his blinker and immediately starts to drift into my lane. With guardrail on my left my only choice was to boot it and finish the pass. Thank God Wanda was up to the task. A little extra oomph in reserve is never a bad thing.

Fortunately all cars decelerate well enough to get out of that situation.

[SuperTrooper]

Originally Posted by Clev

Fortunately all cars decelerate well enough to get out of that situation.

My point is: Do you think that a car that takes 20 seconds to reach 60 mph could have accelerated out of that situation?

I don't.