What is FAST and are you ?

MrLOL said:
fast to me, is about acceleration.
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Same here.

I consider my ST to be pretty quick, doing 0-60 in around 6 seconds and on to 100 is probably under 14 seconds.

A truly fast car needs to be doing 60 in under 5 though really.

I feel top speed is irrelevant.
 
As said fast is relative.

There's also a dffrence between observer and driver. I can be going fast and have fun in a dog slow bad handling car. As long as there are no straights.

Fast to me, is the sense of going fast and that means pushing it to the limits for corners and G-force/feel on acceleration.
 
Far too much of a relative question. My car certainly gets out of it's own way but compared to todays kind of vehicles I would be hesitant to call it "fast". It's quick for sure, where it matters, but could be considered warm on 0-60 or Traffic light GP.

It's not fast enough for me not to consider strapping on some forced induction down the line, but it's fast enough in it's current incarnation around the track to kick at the heels of much faster straight line vehicles.
 
My experiences and ownership:

Slow
Mondeo/Escort/Zafira/Corsa etc - slow
Citreon AX GT - Nippy
Golf GTI - Nippy

Quick-ish
My old Corrado G60 (Supercharged and modded) - quick but not silly fast
Various modded hot hatches

Fast cars
P1 Impreza
Modded Astra Turbo
Skyline

Scarey fast (bikes)
Suzuki GSXR 600
Yamaha R1
 
I consider my current car to be fast (0-62 in 8.6)

I consider my new car (when the damn thing turns up) to be fast (0-62 in 6.1)

I consider my other car (Xsara Picasso 1.8) to be slow (0-62 in 10.8)
 
Fast cars show themselves when you put your foot down at 100mph and see the speed rise rapidly. That is what defines fast and when you have driven cars that go 110, 120, 130, 140, 150 within a few seconds you realise how slow most cars are...
 
Fair point Housey but many of us would rarely if ever experience that even in a car which could do it.

The question needs defined context. Legally fast, illegally fast, track fast etc.

Also, I bet most of us have cars that are "fast" when you look at the entire inventory of cars on the road, being in a much smaller % of quicker cars compared to the masses of slow stuff out there!
 
Fast on paper and fast in real life are two different things though sometimes - driver commitment, mechanical sympathy and lack of skill can sometimes result in a fast, or warm, car actually being quite slow.

Example - my Triumph does 0-60 in about 13 seconds on a good day but because it's an automatic, with a long 1st gear and an engine quite happy to rev to 6500RPM, you simply stand on the throttle at the lights and off it goes at a fair old chop up until 40.

Consequently, when some 'tuned' Mk.2 Golf GTI pulled up at the lights in MK and 'wanted some', I actually got clear of the lights first, and had a good few car lengths on him before I got to the next junction - because he couldn't get his launch or shifts right, and then realised he'd got it all wrong and just gave up.

Perception as Hxc (and AcidHell2) says plays a big part too - do 60mph around country lanes in a 2000 like mine and you'll be having an entertaining fun-filled ride and feel like you're doing more like 120!

Likewise, if an old cars passes you at a fair old chat - say I'm doing motorway speeds in the fast lane and blow past a few relatively modern cars, from their perspective, it probably looks really, really quick - because for the most part it'll be maxxed out, throttle-to-the-floor and going as fast as it can, as opposed to just gently cruising by :D

-end ramble-
 
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warm sounds about right for mine.

i agree with the comments about there being many meanings for the term fast. as long as you have fun then all is well in the world


saying that the simple pure sensation of being sunk into the seat buy a stonking great motor is hard to beat in terms of pure giggles
 
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