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Very true. The HN title mislead me and I thought there was no way it was true (which it isn't)

Even the "quickest" is up for debate since this only measures 0-60 time, but I think it is leaps and bounds more accurate than "fastest".

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2.7 seconds 0-100. Is there a quicker production car than that?

* Bugatti Veyron - 2.5 seconds

* Porsche 991 Turbo - 2.5 seconds

* Porsche 918 Spider - 2.2 seconds - limited production, only 918 built.

So it's not the quickest, but it's right up there.

Do you have the data for acceleration past 100MPH? The cars you listed really come to life after a 100MPH and it would be an interesting comparison.

0-60 and 1/4 mile times here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

link from truckle who's currently being blocked (turn on showdead).

Thanks. The 2016 model has has a quarter mile time of 10.8 sec @ 121.99 mph. Not bad. Should dip into the 10.5 with grippy tyres. I wish they offered an additional overdrive gear to see if they would get to 200MPH. I don't know if they can handle the aero but they sure have the power.

Are any of the faster cars still in production?

Today I stumbled upon this video of a fully electric, Croatian-made Rimac Concept One vs a Tesla Model S P90D vs a LaFerrari. The Rimac Concept One destroys everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7KKxoAvvk

I think that you can have these speeds with Bugatti and Porsche only if you are a good pilot. With tesla, you can do it if you have a foot.

The Porsche has launch control, so there's really no skill involved for a 0-60 run.

There's a video on youtube of a guy doing it without his hands on the wheel, repeatedly (to show off the durability of the 911's transaxle, I believe, as compared to the GT-R which tended to blow up in the early models). That tech is pretty remarkable.

The Bugatti folks might have a legitimate beef, but I don't think it makes sense to count the unpurchaseable Porsche models as 'production cars'.

The 918 is unpurchaseable, but you can walk into any Porsche dealer and buy a 911 Turbo S for ~$190k that'll do 0-60 in 2.5s.

We're picking nits, so I'm going to point out that Porsche claims the 911 Turbo S that they sell today does 0-60 in 2.8s, slower than you're suggesting.

I don't have firsthand knowledge to be able to say which of you is wrong.

Porsche is conservative with their reported 0-60 numbers. People that have tested it are able to get 2.5s. Look at the first two columns of times in the table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

Rollout can account for 0.1 or 0.2 of a second, and that table kind of hand-waves it away: "Some measurements exclude the first foot-rollout."

2.5 seconds to 0-60 and only 2.7 seconds 0-100?

That would be a pretty scary 0.2 seconds. Some back of a napkin math puts that at around 32,000 g.

(I assume that was a typo)

It's an additional 0.2 seconds to get to 100km/h (62mph).

Your napkin math is way off. 40MPH in 0.2 seconds is only 89m/s^2, or about 9g. You probably wouldn't even lose consciousness!

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