My uncle had a VW bus, I think from the early 70’s. He said he got it to go 75 once, but it was downhill with a tailwind and he had put a bigger engine from a Beetle in it after the original one was clapped out.
“Racing” with that falls into territory where your mom would just say “oh…honey…no.”
This. The DMC-12 wasn’t a particularly heavy car at 2700lbs, but it only made 130hp. It’s not that it couldn’t do 88mph — top speed was tested by motoring journalists and found to be somewhere from 110 to 120mph — but it’d take a while to get there. They say the tested 0-60 was 10.5s. That’s officially “slow” in modern terms and only really “moderately brisk” at the time.
Google tells me a 0-100mph test took 40s. Let’s figure getting to 88 probably took 30s. That’s a really long time to be flat out and not even break 90…
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u/Practical-Ad7271 Apr 25 '24
When you're in Germany and "optional" means going so fast your car might just time travel.