It was an innocent (Are any of them really so innocent though?*) Facebook question about your first car.
Mine was a brand new 1983 Toyota Tercel. I wanted to wryly comment on how underpowered it was and guessed a 0-60 of about 18 seconds. But this is the information era, there is no need to guess anymore, about anything.
The 12 Slowest Cars of 1983
18.3 Seconds, not bad guessing!
Just a click away, was link to the fastest cars from 1983:
Porsche 911 SC Cabriolet: 7.0 seconds
Which got me thinking about how fast the fastest car we ever had was?
The 2007 SAAB 9-3 Aero Sport-Combi
So that car may not have been the hottest thing on the road when we owned it, but it was hotter than anything from a couple of decades earlier. It was over a second faster than the 1983 Ford Mustang GT, which had a 5.0 Liter V8! And it beat the Pontiac Firebird by almost 4 seconds.
Naturally, I wanted to see how some of our other, not so hot, but maybe pretty impressive compared to 1983, stood up:
1996 Buick Regal 3800 0-60 8.7 seconds Not bad for a 4 door family sedan and quite a bit faster than the 1983 Porsche 944: 9.2 seconds.
1997 BMW 318ti 0-60 "Pressed hard, our 318ti managed a 0-60-mph best of 8.9 seconds" About 1.6 seconds faster than the 1983 BMW 528, which had an in-line 6 and an extra liter of displacement.
*Those Facebook thing is probably an attempt to scrape-together enough information to guess a few security questions.
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