It's a sad world when......
 

A 2004 Saturn Ion

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/...0061990001.jpg


is 1/10th of a second slower than a Ferrari Testarossa pulling off a red light up to highway speeds.

http://www.albeedigital.com/supercou...0-60times.html

2004 Saturn Ion Redline 6.3 (0-60)

1989 Ferrari Testarossa 6.2 (0-60)


http://www.ssip.net/upload/ferrari-t...front-1_67.jpg


Technology..... love it and hate it. :D

that's a slap..
why are saturns so ugly?

thats ok
i would even rather be slower than a saturn than be caught in a Saturn Ion

Funny point!

Hell I just wanna go rent an Ion and drag Testarossa's red light to red light down Cobb Pkwy :D

"look at that dude in that Saturn pulling that Testarossa" :D

lol 6.3 that's faster than most old lexus

Well, two things.

First, it shows you what 15 years of auto engineering (1989-2004) has done between an expensive exotic and an everyday econobox.

Second, to quote the thread title, it shows what a sad world it is when 0-60 or quarter-mile times have become the primary means of judging a car, in many cases to the exclusion of almost everything else. That is often the first question one wants to know today about a new or redesigned car........"How fast is it?".

:agree:.......sad but so true....

Two things not mentioned:

a) When the Testerossa rolls down the road, people bow down in awe and subservience to the Ferrari flat-12 engine note.

b) The Ferrari has lot more going for it than just 0-60, like the top speed thing :) I highly doubt the Ion is going to be touching the ~180mph top speed. You've gotta have some tall gears to run that kind of speed on a 5-speed tranny.

This is not right, so I did a little snooping around and here's what I found:
"We managed 0-to-60 mph in 7.1 seconds"...still plenty fast, but that's something I can live with

dont forget that the ferarri is PURE HOTNESS while the saturn looks like a joke.

^^ HAHAHA somewhere some saturn designer is reading this and crying

That's what makes it so funny though..... some kid in a saturn is gonna try his luck on one and actually keep up down short sprints of roads. Hell we have civics trying to race Z06's, They'll try a Ferrari any day :D

wait the ion could do it in 6.3? wow how many horses haha

lol, the saturn is faster than my IS :D