Talk:0 to 60 mph

message: Speeddemonvegas 07:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Started page 

message: also added lotus.
Speeddemonvegas 02:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added to catagory automobiles

message: Sorry, but the GT500 is quicker to 60 mph than 4.5s That's an old number. I'll find you guys a new one from a real car mag CJ DUB 17:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GT500 

message: The table as previously included is essentially trivia.  Wikipedia is written for a general audience, and this table was full of detail only of interest to sport car enthusiasts.  There is also no criteria for which sports cars should be included in the table, so it would grow to include every sports car and few if any general-use vehicles.  
The sort of table which would be of interest to a general audience would only list the car model, possibly the engine type, and the 0-60 time, but it would list a wide variety of vehicles, from economy cars, mainstream sedans, minivans, SUVs, and tractor-trailers, in addition to some of the more notable sports cars. —Dgiest c 18:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Statement by [[User:Dgies|Dgies]]

message: A table of 0-60mph times would - I believe - be best suited to its own page, or as an addition to other articles about cars. 
What could be useful would be just a few examples of 0-60mph times, but not in a table form. From the current article, the reader has no real idea of the time taken for 0-60mph except for "It is usually less than Quarter mile time". Personally, as an outsider looking at this article, I don't find that very helpful. Times such as the fastest 0-60mph car, and perhaps what a more common time would be for a 'consumer' type car, as in-line text.
Wilfw 16:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Statement by [[User:Wilfw|Wilfw]]

message: Instead of editing why not just make your own table on the same page and reference your sources.  You dont like what the table says? Scared of the facts? Fine list all the 0 to 60 times yourself in a seperate table on the same page, but the tables relivence stands.  Mymazdatribute 08:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a speedy deletion tag to the duplicate of the table on this page you created at Lowest_0_to_60_acceleration_for_a_given_price_for_vehicles_sold_in_the_USA.. The discussion over the table ought to be centralised at this page. tommylommykins 18:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Its funny 

message: now only fastest vehicles 0 to 60 by price remain, the table is more accurate now
68.224.14.81 08:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Took out all duplicates

message: The statement,
It became popular as a measure of acceleration necessary to reach cruising speed when the United States national speed limit was still .
is flat-out wrong, as anyone old enough to remember will verify.  I have removed it.  (The 0-60 measure was popular long before the U.S. had a national speed limit, which did not occur until the early 70s.)--Tedd (talk) 13:01, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of 0-60 Wrong 

message: "Prior to OBD-II"
Can someone add a date? It left me asking the question "when was that...."
Robotics1 (talk) 12:00, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I started to wikilink to the article On-board diagnostics which has the dates of introduction of the OBD and OBD-II systems. But I just deleted the whole section. It was totally unsourced, and consisted entirely of POV opinions about the relative performance of cars, with the unspoken assumption that the reader is in the USA. It ignores cars in the other 95% of the world. And then there's the underlying logic of saying OBD decreased 0 to 60 times. How does a diagnostic system make cars go faster? In fact, it was the development of engine electronics that made engines more efficient, which offered the potential benefit of more speed, as well as the potential for a diagnostic system. Had the information come from an expert source instead of just some Wikipedia editor woolgathering, I'm sure it would have made much more sense. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:39, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHEN 

message: I have added this car but with the caveat that it is not yet in production. Stub Mandrel (talk) 19:05, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not in production yet, so I removed it. If we are allowed to put non-production vehicles here then I can find thousands of drag cars which go faster than the Roadster II. Adding non-production cars is a minefield waiting for a wrong step. If we do add non-production cars then we need can include drag cars but need suitable proof from some official body.  Stepho  talk  23:02, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: And maybe we can start to catch on to the fact that the cars Tesla delivers, while often impressive, are almost never quite what was promised? They oversell. Even if the car were in production, the only source was Tesla's claims. We would never accept a performance claim, especially a record, based only on manufacturer claims. It has to be a third party test, and if it's not corroborated by multiple third party sources, it should be taken with a grain of salt. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Tesla Roadster II

message: I see that this article was just moved from 0 to 60 mph without apparent consensus. One might call that hijacking the article. I appreciate the merits of SI units, but I note that all of the references currently cited use miles per hour. Is 0 to 100 km/h time actually used in the industry? Some references are needed to support that claim. --Srleffler (talk) 04:47, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually prefer it in SI units (most markets outside of America and Britain measure it as 0-100 km/h) but I do agree that it should have gone through a discussion first. Hence, it can be reverted by the first person to object to the new title.  Stepho  talk  10:08, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

text: It should be reverted and discussed before being changed from its long-term name. -- DeFacto (talk). 06:14, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Now moved back. -- DeFacto (talk). 06:19, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

text: This article is about a specific benchmark that has been used for decades. Sure there are other benchmarks, including 0-100 km/h, but they do not replace this one and, maybe, could have their own article, or join this one as a sub-section of a more general article such as "Motor vehicle acceleration benchmarks". Renaming this article about this particular measure though, to its latter-day metric equivalent, is like renaming the "milestone" article to "1.6-kilometre-stone" or the four-minute mile article to "four-minute 1609.34 metres"! -- DeFacto (talk). 09:31, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consensus for move?