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Fastest accelerating cars
0 to 60 in under 2 secs is the next barrier for supercars. However there are vehicles, some street legal, that accelerate that quickly now. Let’s look at some of the quickest vehicles in the world right now.
I should note that this is not intended to be an all-encompassing list, but I looked hard for any mention of a car hitting 60 miles per hour in under two seconds.
I have included a few entries just for fun and comparison.
Roadster II 0 - 60mph in around 2 sec
The upcoming Tesla's Roadster II still hasn’t broken the 2 seconds barrier officially, but Tesla’s stellar reputation alone has forced us to trust them on this one. After all, their heavier and less powerful luxury sedan, the Model S, is capable of doing the same in just 2.39 seconds. Electric powertrain’s instant torque is simply unbeatable these days.
AMZ Grimsel – 0 – 60mph in 1.51 secs
This tiny electric car was built for the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich by a team of 30 students from the ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. Made mostly out of carbon , the all-electric Formula Student race car weighs only around 370 pounds!! It utilizes four-wheel drive system with four separate electric motors – one at each wheel. All four of them develop 200 horse power and 1,254 lb-ft of torque each. Furthermore, their effectiveness is greatly increased by the use of an onboard computer which applies traction control to each wheel separately. The AMZ Grimsel needed less than 100 feet in order to hit the 60 mph mark.
Alpha Omega Nissan R 35 GTR – 0 – 60 in 1.49 seconds
The team at AMS Performance own what may be the quickest street-legal car on the planet (although its runs were made on drag slicks). This summer AMS took its 1455 horse power and set down runs close to 200 mph, with ETs in the low 7s. And the cost to do so was one R35GT plus a couple of hundred thousand dollars or labor and parts.
Bloodhound SSC – 0 – 60 in 1.0 sec
Seeking to break both its own Land Speed Record of 763 mph and cross the 1000 mph barrier, the team led by Richard Noble has developed an entirely new vehicle for the task. The Bloodhound SSC is a bit of a hybrid, as it has both a jet and a rocket engine (the Thrust SCC used two Rolls-Royce Spey 205 jet engines). The car is initially powered by a EJ200 jet engine, used as the powerplant of the Mach 2.0 Eurofighter Typhoon. Once the Bloodhound reaches 300 mph, a sophisticated rocket engine built by Scandinavian missile maker Nammo kicks in, boosting the Bloodhound to a targeted 1050 mph, WHAAT?
Trust me it gets even crazier, the final boss.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragster – 0 – 60 in 0.8 secs
A Top Fuel dragster accelerates so quickly that its already passed 60 mph by the time the rear tires have finished the start line (300 inches). Powered by a 500 cubic inch V8 that’s and it’s cooled by the incoming fuel. By 2008 speeds had gotten so far out of control that the major sanctioning body, the National Hot Rod Association shortened the length of the timed portion of events where its top classes run from 1/4 mile (1320 feet) to 1000 feet. Still the nearly 10,000 hp Top Fuelers can max out at over 330 mph.
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