>> When I was a lad those were sports car timings. Cannot imagine needing or even
>> wanting something quicker.
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The Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world when it was launched I think, and it took 10 seconds to get to 60. And that was in the mid 40s, which I’m guessing is a good 20 years before you were a lad (I’m assuming that ‘lad’ covers the ages of 7ish to 12ish!!). I’m not familiar enough with the era to know what a more prosaic sports saloon would be, but I assume some form of Triumph? I imagine a well driven Skoda would beat a ‘60s Triumph saloon...
Trouble is, you get used to the power... Objectively our MINI is pretty quick...it’ll get to 60 in just over 7 seconds. But the BMW will do it in 5, so the MINI oesn’t always feel fast. Then again, the A2 with 75PS takes over 12 seconds and it’s perfectly driveable. Does it need to be quicker? No...not in the real world, but sometimes it’d be nice :)
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