![]() That said, I may also take fewer risks when driving a slower car. The most important reason I might need good acceleration is when passing on two-lane country roads. ![]() Actually two large steps back - and think through our assumptions.įor starters, what is the practical significance of being able to go from zero to 60 in 9.7 seconds rather than, say, 6.5? Where in one’s actual lived experience of driving a car would a savings of 3.2 seconds make a meaningful difference? When - and how often - would one fully draw upon that acceleration?Īlso see ‘Automotive deaths: Where are our memorials?’ If Indie Auto was a “normal” automotive blog we would follow the same path of the Jalopnik comment thread and get into the weeds about which car does better or worse in 0-60 times. In buying an MX-30, one would be “spending $45k to get smoked 0-60 by a teenager in a 9 year old Honda Fit they bought with their allowance.” “People will complain about a 9 sec 0-60 while ignoring the fact that the now-revered E30 318 was slower than that and the Porsche 944 was only marginally faster,” argued BigRed91 ( 2021). Other commentators pointed out that the MX-30 was reasonably fast compared to the high-performance cars of yore. And even if you compare to a much cheaper EV (like a $32,000 base 40kWh Leaf) that gets under 8 seconds also. For example, edv1000r ( 2021) wrote that when “most of the competition is doing 0-60 in 6.5 seconds 9.7 seconds is an eternity.” And stopcrazypp ( 2021) argued that even “a base Corolla gets 0-60 in under 8 seconds today. Click on image to enlarge ( Automotive History Preservation Society). Writer Ken Saito ( 2021) had just concluded that the electric crossover’s 0-60 time of 9.7 seconds was “hardly hot hatch quick” but for daily commuting was “sufficient.” 1986 BMW 325es ad. Last summer a Jalopnik review of the Mazda MX-30 led to a debate in the comment thread about what is adequate acceleration. ![]()
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