0-60 - What's yours?

Did mine today. Disco 1 3dr, 300tdi, 150k miles, on 245 - 16 Kuhmo muds. Highly inaccurate 22 secs going by the speedo. As the tyres are a bit oversized I recon it will be a bit less. And it made a LOT of black smoke

norseman said:

And the point is? I think the 0-60 (usually 0-62/100kph these days) is the most irrelevant statement ever made by a manufacturer. A far more important figure for everyday driving is the 30-50/40-60 figures in order to reduce the TED (time exposed to danger) when overtaking, especially on single track roads - & yes I already know I'm an old fart!

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I think the 0-60 gives a hint at those times, especially as the majority of truly modern cars pull all the way up to and over 100.

Such short bands of acceleration would be over in a blink for many cars and are often not likely to be achieved due to the terror that dropping down 3 gears and booting it would induce in most drivers.

Anyway, picking her up next Tuesday so I'll join in, but I doubt it'll be as fast as the other >50yo design I have in the garage which manages 4.8s

I've got 2 4x4s

One does it in 5.9 , I daren't try the other one

I need an accurate calendar for my N/A 110, have seen 60 on the clock couple of times but dont think I will thrash the old thing, it may be slow but its errrr graceful

The TD4 auto I have will do it in about 15 seconds, but will go one to a heady 100 in theory.

My is now remapped so ought to be quicker.

When I put a Ronbox on with the remap it did it in about 12 seconds. But as I plan to keep the car, the Ronbox was removed and sold in the interests of not destroying the transmission.

Got it down to 13 secs now in my 300tdi 110 defender pickup after some more setting up but still on my bigger wheels so that's not helping and my tappets need doing must sort them.The new turbo system is awesome.

25 year old 110 2.5 NAD Fender 0-10 in less than 35secs, 0-60 in under a week ... sometimes

200tdi 90- 265 dakars about 14 seconds odd.

Ok, did my 100 inch hybrid this evening, RV8 on standard carbs. 265 r16 BF AT, not sure how much they would gear it up though.

Somewhere around 17-18 secs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brEvRigCKtc

MrNasty said:

Ok, did my 100 inch hybrid this evening, RV8 on standard carbs.

Somewhere around 17-18 secs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brEvRigCKtc

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Never mind the stupid LR do the Lotus!

Should do really, as I might be swapping it for a Corvette C5

MrNasty said:

Should do really, as I might be swapping it for a Corvette C5

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More GRP! Ok well do it.. then you can compare them..

Quite like plastic cars, no rust, don't dent, the Lotus is trapped in the barn right now with the inlaws boat in the way, couple of weeks and I can release it for the first time this year once he gets his crap out of the way.

MrNasty said:

Quite like plastic cars, no rust, don't dent, the Lotus is trapped in the barn right now with the inlaws boat in the way, couple of weeks and I can release it for the first time this year once he gets his crap out of the way.

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Me too, I used to mould beach buggy bodyshells ha ha! Anyway on with the thread..