The 5 second mark is the point of diminishing returns for 0-60 fun-factor in my book. Once you get in to cars this quick, things start to happen so quickly that they’re over before you can enjoy them. Sure, there’s the shock of, “ZOMG WHAT THE HELL IS SHOVING THIS THING FORWARD?!” But I never found myself accelerating…

Whatever it takes to get us to a car culture that gets back to enjoying reaching the limits of a car responsibly on a backroad or small local circuit instead of doing a full-throttle pull between every stoplight down a city street and endangering the lives of everybody else on that street both inside and outside of a…

Honestly... all new sporty cars are so damn fast that I’m finding 0-60 just about irrelevant. Maybe I’m getting old and slow, but I’ll take a car that I like the feel of over the car that’s objectively faster. I did that with my recent purchase of a Mazdaspeed3 over a Focus ST; on paper the Focus is a better car by…