This reinforces my belief that we need a 90mph speed limit on highways.

Not sure I'd laugh at someone because their car can't do 0-60 in X. How capable a car is in the performance department can't be measured in numbers alone.

Some of those I wouldn't call passenger cars really (Sprinter, Transit). Yeah ok so there are some, but the majority of passenger cars sold are somewhere in the 7-8 sec range I'll bet.

"I swear, people are gonna get rearended in today's traffic!!" - That's what people said when the Ecoboost Fusion "only" had 180hp. Yeah no, American drivers are still on the lethragic side last I checked.

Sportscars are getting ever ludicrously faster, but I think what's even crazier is that base-model family sedans and V6 minivans can do 0-60 in under 8 seconds more often than not today. And need electronic speed governors so they don't require expensive v-rated tires.

It really is only a 7/10 by today's standards. 10/10 would be sub-3 second hypercars, 9/10 low-3second range supercars, 8/10 probably what the higher-powered Camaros can do.

And anything over 7 is economy car territory now. I don't think there are any passenger cars sold in the US anymore that take double digits to reach 60.

Interesting tidbit: the artists who painted the posters that advertised automobile races in these early days of motoring would sometimes deliberatley distort their drawings in a way that resembled these photographs because it looks "fast".

No, this is really how the word used in Mexico. A bit like "cabron". I really fail to see why you would be so skeptical here. I mean, how many latin folks do you know? I'd go out on a limb here and say not many.

Soccer was invented in Europe, the continent that invented all the great evils of the modern age. Soccer, incidentally, being one of those evils.

Depends. Did you use up your shot of nitrous at the strip yet?

Thing is, I can sort of see why Europeans like/accept flopping, seeing how they have been conditioned to view healthy male aggression as an undesirable trait and have generally accepted the feminization of men as good and right.

But just enough power to fill his and his buddies' pockets on the tax dime. You haven't experienced deliberately obstructive public servants until you've experienced Belgian government/government offices. The art of subtle bribery has been developed to absolute mastery by rural Belgians.

Yeah but what's arguably even more important is that autopilots have become very sophisticated while also being very reliable. Pilots can't screw up if they're not flying the plane, and unless something unforeseen happens, today's commercial pilots only actively pilot during take-off and landing.

In today's rallycross, the only thing flatter than the cornering are brims of the drivers' caps.

He is neither since he does not actually exist - this comment is merely satire. These kinds of sentiments are definitely being expressed in certain automotive forums catering to the owners of certain brands, though.

Panamera_GemBALLER wrote:

There's also a remarkably clean Peugeot 104 here. Someone must love it very much for it to be in that condition at roughly 30 years old. That side stripe makes me think it's maybe even some kind of sporty model.

Also has that awesome push-button gear selector for the Torqueflite.

Thing is, those left-lane campers can often be some of the most aggressive drivers themselves. Y'know, they shelled out the extra Euros to buy the Passat with the higher-powered of the two mid-range turbodiesels - in Germany, anything in the 140-160hp range is considered above average even today - and they're going to…