If I ever bought a stupidly fast car

[Darkbrador]

@RacinBob a decent used one would be broken

[415s30]

@Darkbrador They don't come broken?

[2Poor_sh2Furious]

@RacinBob define stupidly fast

[RacinBob]

@Poor_sh said in If I ever bought a stupidly fast car:

define stupidly fast

500 hp fast is about 300 hp faster than I've driven.....

[ItalianJobR53]

@RacinBob I'm guessing its also much heavier tho

[Peter_Black]

@RacinBob anmd honestly, isnt all that fast these days....

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@Poor_sh
Anything faster than 8 secs for 0-60mph in the hands of the average male driver aged over 50 is asking questions of reaction times that physics has an unappealing answer to...

[ItalianJobR53]

@Peter_Black ya all the new stuff weighs too much

[bison78]

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in If I ever bought a stupidly fast car:

@Poor_sh
Anything faster than 8 secs for 0-60mph in the hands of the average male driver aged over 50 is asking questions of reaction times that physics has an unappealing answer to...

That's why they have all the nannies in the car electronics.

But seriously, the first time I fully stepped on the accelerator in my Model 3, I started feeling faint within a second or two. Fortunately, I still had enough consciousness to ease off the pedal. And my Model 3 isn't even a dual motor version.

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@bison78
I don't put much faith in the nannies in those sorts of cards. And the nonas in the Alfa would be even quixotic!

[atfsgeoff]

@bison78 said in If I ever bought a stupidly fast car:

But seriously, the first time I fully stepped on the accelerator in my Model 3, I started feeling faint within a second or two. Fortunately, I still had enough consciousness to ease off the pedal. And my Model 3 isn't even a dual motor version.

A single motor 3 isn't that ludicrously quick, last I checked about 5 seconds 0-60. That's late 90s Camaro/Trans Am territory

[RacinBob]

@ItalianJobR53 said in If I ever bought a stupidly fast car:

I'm guessing its also much heavier tho

3000 pounds, same as my Si. but with 300 hp more.....

[RacinBob]

@RacinBob Ps, it does 192 mph..... 3.6 seconds o - 60

[bison78]

@atfsgeoff

Exactly. At the time, it was doing 0-60 in about 4 1/2 seconds. Then a software update changed it to just over 5 seconds and finally a later update set it back to just under 5 seconds.

Also more that that Camaro won't do the 0-60 in that time if the driver just mashes the pedal from a standing start.

[ike808]

@RacinBob My neighbor had a base model and loved it.

I like this:

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2021-alfa-romeo-giulia-gtam-102-1622008752.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=480:*

But i still see this:

https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/c/c1/Draw-Squidward-from-SpongeBob-SquarePants-Step-16.jpg/v4-460px-Draw-Squidward-from-SpongeBob-SquarePants-Step-16.jpg.webp

You’re welcome.

[TheDutchTexan]

It isn't stupidly fast... Been 6 years since I was last in one. I had fun I think...

[Exage03040]

@RacinBob

I don't see anything less in country than $65k on 'trader . ca. Kind of scary is that the highest mileage one listed is 58.5k km too, most are only managing 5-7k km per year.

[Qaaaaa]

@atfsgeoff the difference is the 3 makes peak torque at 0 RPM. Your acceleration curve is your torque curve- that’s why everyone who rides in a Tesla says “man, this car is so fast!” You mat the accelerator and it just goes.

[Old Busted Hotness]

@Exage03040 said in If I ever bought a stupidly fast car:

most are only managing 5-7k km per year.

They're in the shop the other 11 months each year.

[HillRat]

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in If I ever bought a stupidly fast car:

Anything faster than 8 secs for 0-60mph

Isn't that most new-ish cars though? My Buick wagon is a 7 second car and Camry hybrid is about the same. The heartless and much hated Chevy Malibu does 0-60 in 7.2 seconds, the list is almost endless.

[Old Busted Hotness]

@HillRat And yet my 150 HP Crown Vic keeps up with all of them.

[Throwaway]

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly Horseshit

[Mr.Ontop]

@RacinBob I've driven one of those. I wouldn't say it's better than sex, but it's right up there in the same neighborhood. That car is magnificent.

[RacinBob]

Stupid fast.....

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@Throwaway
You obviously have a much higher opinion of the the capacities and faculties of the average male driver over 50. As one of them, I am under no such illusions.