Car companies and the subservient car mags (especially Excellence) are looking for something to sell more vehicles. Faster is an easy number to quote even if it means nothing to the average Joe. I could care less if the new P car has a top speed of 200 mph. I'll never need it and I don't wear post 1000 photos and brag all day about what I own or where I went. A few years back I wrote Excellence Magazine but for some reason :rolleyes:, they didn't publish it in the reader response section.

Yes, especially in a pickup truck.

Actually I think Porsche wants to make more money. Their cars are priced to reflect exclusivity and yet sell enough cars to be profitable.
A Porsche for the common man would be a 912, a 914, or the 924 - these days it might be a gussied up VW SUV.

Aprilia looks great, sounds great, but no match for yamaha R1, even tho it sounds like a vespa.

zero to 60 in 1.1 seconds. This is just getting silly.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/rocket-powered-flying-tesla-roadster-health

Love it.
Hope it delivers.
Really exciting promises there.

I’ve done plenty of that and used to be a Ducati mechanic (I noticed your sig) before going back to school for engineering. The last liter bike I rode was over 10 years ago so I’m sure they’re even crazier now especially with all the electronics, but I wouldn’t take someone for a ride on one like I can with the 930. The 930 can’t put down crazy 0-60 times with the old 4 speed but it pulls as hard as a sub 3 second car.

I agee with Chris Harris in saying the 0-60 times like Tesla and many super cars are doing now is just a party trick. It’s not something you’ll do very often, it’ll scare your passengers and probably any other driver within crash distance.

Very very very unlikely. I call BS. That car cannot do it in 1.1 seconds.

Look for the asterisk. It will be there somewhere.

The * is with optional manaevuring thruster(s).

Which is pretty darn cool.

I loved my '88 944. It was a little under powered but was a great little car.

The asterisk is for a rolling start. Lots of cars use it.

The car can't accelerate faster than it can decelerate. Zero to 60 is greater than 60 to zero.

Which begs the question. What's the lowest 0-60 time possible?

Top fuel is in the 0.5 second range but eventually aortas start coming apart.

0-60 has been a performance benchmark for generations, but I value midrange passing power (say, 30-50 and 50-70 times) more. It's a more useful metric and the kind of performance that you can more realistically enjoy in normal driving.

The soft fleshy bit in the middle is the limitation even with current technology. My neighbor’s old McLaren MP4-12C could accelerate and brake hard enough that I felt the strain on my body, and it’s now slow by modern super car standards.

Really modern 0-60 times are just bench racing to sell cars. Most modern super cars are faster than you can ever use in real life. Even my E63 has way more performance than could ever be used on public roads. But it’s still fun to try!

Aorta crushing performance....

I think that would sell a few cars..

This is a very good explanation of the games that are played in the 0-60 game without rocket thrust, just tire friction.

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My old '88 targa w/217hp from the factory was fun and accelerated briskly. I was happy with it's performance. My new boxster (the first boxster/cayman to break 300hp) with 303hp is, I'm sure faster than the old 911, and has a higher top speed (170 or 171, I think). Although the boxster, even with it's 265 35 19 tires doesn't hook up as well as the 911 with it's 225 50 16. There have been times in the ownership of both when I thought "if only I could round the power up to <the next even 100>" I'm sure 300hp would have been a blast in the 911 and 400 would be a blast in the Boxster. But most of the time, what each had was plenty. I'm able to accelerate away/past/around most things that I want to get past. I'm not talking about racing, just getting away from an erratic driver or slow driver or whatever. And only having 300hp probably keeps me out of some trouble here and there whether due to wet/slick roads or whatever.

I still wouldn't pass up something more powerful if it presented itself and was something that i wanted. A 911 of some flavor with 400-500hp would, I'm sure, bet a ton of fun. Just because you've got it, doesn't mean you have to use it every time the light turns green. Fortunately, my foot and butt and brain have control and (most of the time) are reasonable.
That might even be better than "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday."

My guess is that <24 hours after the statement was made there would be multiple lawsuits. There'd be one for "my husband died, your car must have crushed his aorta" and then there'd be a class action for "I've driven your car a bunch of times and my aorta has never been crushed."

I enjoy his videos. Sometimes he talks too much and I consider fast forwarding a bit. But hey, cars and nerdy math, what's not to love.

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