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    1989 Motor Trend: 0-60 mph Through The Years

    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.
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    1967 Pontiac GTO (1st page near bottom) : That machine hauls but are the 0-60 times with our without wheelspin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Man of Steel View Post
    1967 Pontiac GTO (1st page near bottom) : That machine hauls but are the 0-60 times with our without wheelspin
    They have to be wheelspin added in. Otherwise tis impossible that the big Pontiac was .7 of a second faster to 60 than a Corvette with a 7 litre engine...
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    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
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    Ah so basically they handled performance figures in those days like manufacturers handle fuel consumption figures today - utterly unrealistic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Man of Steel View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Man of Steel View Post
    1967 Pontiac GTO (1st page near bottom) : That machine hauls but are the 0-60 times with our without wheelspin
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fleet 500 View Post
    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.
    Nice post. Thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big time View Post
    Nice post. Thanks
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