igotzzoom
Active Member
Okay...Bear with me here...I think some people don't care about 5 or 6-second 0-60 times, simply because they've never experienced them. I've been in a lot of sub 5-second cars. For me, it's a fun, but not transformational experience. The first time I was in a car that did 0-60 in less than 6 seconds, it was a "WOW!!" experience.
I'm willing to bet that a lot of Prius and 4-cyl Camry buyers have never experienced that feeling, and are content with the 8-10 second 0-60 time of their cars, simply because they were more interested in the 30-40+ mpg that they could get. If you took out some Prius buyers on a test drive of a Gen-III, and punched it getting on the on-ramp, and tell them it still costs less to drive and operate than their Prius, I think a lot of them would be sold then and there. Sure, a lot of them would be "Oh, I never drive that fast, I'll never use all that power." But for some, they'd be "Man, to think I've sacrificed the driving experience all these years for efficiency. Now I can have both."
Make sense?
I'm willing to bet that a lot of Prius and 4-cyl Camry buyers have never experienced that feeling, and are content with the 8-10 second 0-60 time of their cars, simply because they were more interested in the 30-40+ mpg that they could get. If you took out some Prius buyers on a test drive of a Gen-III, and punched it getting on the on-ramp, and tell them it still costs less to drive and operate than their Prius, I think a lot of them would be sold then and there. Sure, a lot of them would be "Oh, I never drive that fast, I'll never use all that power." But for some, they'd be "Man, to think I've sacrificed the driving experience all these years for efficiency. Now I can have both."
Make sense?