# Zero to 100: Mid-Range Sports Car vs. 747 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172 "2015-07-14T21:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/41 "2015-07-16T23:46:02Z")
If you push the car off a cliff, it’ll go to 100MPHs pretty fast, won’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/42 "2015-07-17T00:15:04Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > If you push the car off a cliff, it’ll go to 100MPHs pretty fast, won’t it? 😉 And after exhaustive testing by Road & Track they’ve come up with a dead heat between the Lada, the Yugo, and the Murcielago. Which proves once again that modern Italians don’t do fast cars any better than 20+ year-ago Serbo-Croatians or Russians. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/43 "2015-07-17T02:41:02Z")
The Yugo and Lada Riva were license-built Fiats. So really the Italians didn’t do any better than themselves. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/44 "2015-07-17T02:46:46Z")
> [@Tride](#): > > Tell that to Ferrari and Car and Driver. The Camaro is in no way my cup of tea, but it posted a 2:50.9 at Virginia International Raceway to the Ferrari F12’s 2:50.8. It was beaten by the Viper, the GTR, Porsche 918 and the Ferrari. The Camaro beat the Corvette, 911 Turbo, R8, Jag XKR-S and quite a few other worthy competitors. So, although it pains me to say it, it sure quacks like a sports car… But does it echo? 😉 As a total naïf, I would like to know when the Mustang stopped being a “girl’s car.” (source “Mary Tyler Moore Show”) Was it “Bullitt”? ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/45 "2015-07-17T05:41:14Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > I heard there was bitching from some Corvette fanatics when they decided they were going to put a compass as a navigational aid in Corvettes, because the purists thought there was no point for such a thing on a car intended to be used on race tracks. When did they start equipping them with turn signals and license plate mounts? Spare tires? Radios? Cigarette lighters? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/46 "2015-07-17T12:40:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The Yugo and Lada Riva were license-built Fiats. So really the Italians didn’t do any better than themselves. Shit. 🙂 :o I totally forgot those were Fiats. :smack: You got the idea though, so I think I get at least partial credit for a decent joke. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/47 "2015-07-17T13:05:18Z")
I’ll allow it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172/48 "2015-07-17T16:24:59Z")
The EPA owned a Plymouth Superbird it used to chase passenger jets down the runway to collect and monitor emissions from the jet engine exhaust. [http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-1970-plymouth-superbird-that-helped-the-epa-clear-the-air-heads-to-auction/](http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-1970-plymouth-superbird-that-helped-the-epa-clear-the-air-heads-to-auction/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-to-100-mid-range-sports-car-vs-747/725172.md?page=2)