.......sad but so true....
It's a sad world when......
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It's a sad world when......
A 2004 Saturn Ion
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)
Technology..... love it and hate it.
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)
Technology..... love it and hate it.
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Hell I just wanna go rent an Ion and drag Testarossa's red light to red light down Cobb Pkwy
"look at that dude in that Saturn pulling that Testarossa"
"look at that dude in that Saturn pulling that Testarossa"
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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?".
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?".
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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.
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.
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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
"We managed 0-to-60 mph in 7.1 seconds"...still plenty fast, but that's something I can live with
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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
