Let’s define dangerously slow

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What’s your definition of dangerously slow

>6
0
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>7
0
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>8
0
No votes
>9
4
17%
>10
8
35%
>11
1
4%
>12
4
17%
>15
5
22%
>30
1
4%
 
Total votes: 23
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wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:50 pm
max225 wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:11 pm
How did people live back then. :hubba: How did they survive...
They didn't. It was daily mass carnage on the nation's highways. Rivers of blood and everything.
Actually. Everyone bought a GTI that did a factory stated 0-60 time in 8.4 seconds. The GTI single handidly saved the US motorist.
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Looks like 10+ is the name of the game...
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dubshow wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:16 pm
wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:50 pm
They didn't. It was daily mass carnage on the nation's highways. Rivers of blood and everything.
Actually. Everyone bought a GTI that did a factory stated 0-60 time in 8.4 seconds. The GTI single handidly saved the US motorist.
:notsure:
I don't remember that being advertised. The ads I remember touted it's 0-50 time of 7.2 seconds.

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Dat 0-50 Time :wat: year is this
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.78g lateral acceleration and 14" :ramz: were :impressive: 35 years ago! :lol:
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I also love the fact that the top speed is listed as both 107 and 108. Proof reading wasn’t a thing back then I guess
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I voted 9, but I think 10 or more is pretty much considered to be dangerously slow. After driving that Mitsu Mirage, I don't even know how to rate how gutless the car really is.
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wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:34 pm
dubshow wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:16 pm

Actually. Everyone bought a GTI that did a factory stated 0-60 time in 8.4 seconds. The GTI single handidly saved the US motorist.
:notsure:
I don't remember that being advertised. The ads I remember touted it's 0-50 time of 7.2 seconds.

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So much :fuckyeah: in that ad.
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wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:34 pm
dubshow wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:16 pm

Actually. Everyone bought a GTI that did a factory stated 0-60 time in 8.4 seconds. The GTI single handidly saved the US motorist.
:notsure:
I don't remember that being advertised. The ads I remember touted it's 0-50 time of 7.2 seconds.

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I kinda find it funny how the wife won't drive it listed as the reason. But from the dead forum as well as the golfmk7, some guys go for these cars with the DSG partly because the wife can drive it. Also 8.4 was pretty good back then, my 2004 TSX was 8.5 when I clocked it and I thought it was fairly quick.... until I drove the :turboyaris: :lol:
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max225 wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:42 pm I also love the fact that the top speed is listed as both 107 and 108. Proof reading wasn’t a thing back then I guess
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I didn't catch that.
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D Griff wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:07 pm
wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:34 pm

:notsure:
I don't remember that being advertised. The ads I remember touted it's 0-50 time of 7.2 seconds.

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So much :fuckyeah: in that ad.
It was a pretty :amaze: car back in 1983. There really wasn't anything else like it for sale in Murica at the time.
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wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:16 pm
D Griff wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:07 pm

So much :fuckyeah: in that ad.
It was a pretty :amaze: car back in 1983. There really wasn't anything else like it for sale in Murica at the time.

Plus, VW had an awesome ad agency then, going back to their beginning in the US, Doyle Dane Bernbach, later to be known as DDB Neeham. IIRC...
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Funny how dangerously slow is only being thrown around in the US, where a base Fiesta has 100hp while Commie Yuropeans will chug along fine with 60hp shitboxes.

Is everyone really in :stig: mode on their way to work? I could easily do with half my power for my commute that’s 90% Hwy.
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Swedish Chef wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:56 pm Funny how dangerously slow is only being thrown around in the US, where a base Fiesta has 100hp while Commie Yuropeans will chug along fine with 60hp shitboxes.

Is everyone really in :stig: mode on their way to work? I could easily do with half my power for my commute that’s 90% Hwy.
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Swedish Chef wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:56 pm Funny how dangerously slow is only being thrown around in the US, where a base Fiesta has 100hp while Commie Yuropeans will chug along fine with 60hp shitboxes.

Is everyone really in :stig: mode on their way to work? I could easily do with half my power for my commute that’s 90% Hwy.
It’s just people on this forum flexin
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:14 pm
wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:56 am I voted greater than 10 seconds these days. It's all relative though, isn't it? 36 years ago when the M1 :turboyaris: came out in Murica the car mags were all :fuckyeah: about a sub-10 second 0-60. (C&D clocked it at 9.7). But when supercars were doing it in the 7's, sub-10 was respectable.

Nowadays, as :waxer: said above, most things should be around sub-7 to be at least somewhat interesting,
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I voted 11+ because in the real world you never need the zero part.

Even shitty on ramps, pull half a g ffs and rev it out and you will merge at highway speed
Real scenario in the blessed lands. You’re on the on-ramp. And Muhammad in his taxi cab can’t merge for shit. So he stops at the end of the ramp. You’re behind him. So you have to flat out 0-60 to get up to traffic speed that’s moving at 70 because it’s a left lane merge.

This happens very often here.
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Johnny_P wrote:
Big Brain Bradley wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:14 pm :dat:

I voted 11+ because in the real world you never need the zero part.

Even shitty on ramps, pull half a g ffs and rev it out and you will merge at highway speed
Real scenario in the blessed lands. You’re on the on-ramp. And Muhammad in his taxi cab can’t merge for shit. So he stops at the end of the ramp. You’re behind him. So you have to flat out 0-60 to get up to traffic speed that’s moving at 70 because it’s a left lane merge.

This happens very often here.
So if the taxi acceleration is OK then any random car is also OK...
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troyguitar wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:43 pm
Johnny_P wrote:
Real scenario in the blessed lands. You’re on the on-ramp. And Muhammad in his taxi cab can’t merge for shit. So he stops at the end of the ramp. You’re behind him. So you have to flat out 0-60 to get up to traffic speed that’s moving at 70 because it’s a left lane merge.

This happens very often here.
So if the taxi acceleration is OK then any random car is also OK...
ITT: We should all be driving Ladas
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Johnny_P wrote:
troyguitar wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:43 pm So if the taxi acceleration is OK then any random car is also OK...
ITT: We should all be driving Ladas
Needs vs wants.
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CorvetteWaxer wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:11 am Anything 9 or over.

Honestly, everything should be able to be in the 6's these days.... maybe the 7's.... but I wouldn't buy them, I merge too much.
Fiesta is 6.5 sec to 60. It’s plenty.

Anything over 10 takes some planning and foresight as a driver.
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The Grom is 0-maybe and it takes 12 seconds to get there (reportedly). My 1990 GMC Sonoma with the 2.5L ironduke was probably every bit of 12-15 seconds.

Both of those are manageable if you use your brain. But anything quicker is fine. Most derps around here merge at 45mph while the traffic is moving between 70-80
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4zilch wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:45 am The Grom is 0-maybe and it takes 12 seconds to get there (reportedly). My 1990 GMC Sonoma with the 2.5L ironduke was probably every bit of 12-15 seconds.

Both of those are manageable if you use your brain. But anything quicker is fine. Most derps around here merge at 45mph while the traffic is moving between 70-80
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I’ve been in Johnnys sitch where people stop on the ramp, it very dangerous in the C5 too... shot driving isn’t fixed with moar powah.
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I voted wrong. Cant change my answer.
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wap wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:34 pm
dubshow wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:16 pm

Actually. Everyone bought a GTI that did a factory stated 0-60 time in 8.4 seconds. The GTI single handidly saved the US motorist.
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I don't remember that being advertised. The ads I remember touted it's 0-50 time of 7.2 seconds.

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Barnes93cb wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:31 am I voted wrong. Cant change my answer.
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