Here is a chart from the May, 1989, issue of Motor Trend.
0-60 mph and 1/4 mile times for the fastest car they tested each year going back to 1949.
Here is a chart from the May, 1989, issue of Motor Trend.
0-60 mph and 1/4 mile times for the fastest car they tested each year going back to 1949.
'76 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Limousine, '95 Lincoln Town Car.
1967 Pontiac GTO (1st page near bottom) : That machine hauls but are the 0-60 times with our without wheelspin
Nah, that was back in the era of manufacturers showing up with press cars that had rear slicks, shorter rear ends, and bigger carbs; like gross horsepower, those numbers are representative of, but don't necessarily coincide with reality.
EDIT: As in the famous GTO vs. GTO test
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
Ah so basically they handled performance figures in those days like manufacturers handle fuel consumption figures today - utterly unrealistic.
Its realistic if you drive it the way they do...
One of my friend who does engine benchmarking is saying that some cars now can actually "detect" what kind of driving is being done. And the car will be running in a specific mode that suits the standardized testing...
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Check out the Cunningham from '52, 0-60 in under 7 seconds! That's really fast for that time period even though it is a race car
Whoever did the research for that 1989 issue missed the fact that the GTO listed had headers and slicks. Oddly, they listed the 0-60 mph time with the slicks on but the 1/4 mile time with stock tires!
As seen in the scan, the 1/4 mile time for the 4-speed GTO, with slicks, was 13.09 @ 106.5 mph and for the automatic, 13.36 @ 105 mph.
'76 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Limousine, '95 Lincoln Town Car.
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