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Impressive acceleration time! The new record for accelerating from 0-100 km/h of only 1.785 seconds was just set a few days ago[1]. The car required less than 30 meters to accelerate to this speed. Of course it was only a prototype car but still impressive to see the limits.

[1]https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2014/11...

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The current non-prototype (/production car) record holder is the 918 Spyder with 2.2s (and a slightly higher base MSRP of $845000)

Although they're already sold out, so you'll have to pick one up on the used market. ;)

And that used price will most definitely be increasing as a 918 recently burnt up.

http://ca.autoblog.com/2014/09/29/porsche-918-spdyer-update-...

And, for reference, top fuel dragsters can do 0-100 km/h in like ~0.3s.

Hence the emphasis on production cars, once you get into special racing or one-offs it's meaningless: you can just strap a soon-to-be-dismantled body on a rocket sled and launch it at 50+G.

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