What the real 0-60 and 1/4 mile times for our truck?

Another thread about hypermiling and moderation of the gas pedal got me thinking about the performance of the Taco.

What's a REALISTIC 0-60 time and 1/4 mile time for a 2008 Access cab, Prerunner, automatic?

Not the Car and Driver, or Motor Trend times. They run cars over and over and get the absolute best times.

What's a realistic one effort, good launch time?

 

I'm not sure, but it sure is fun jumping on the gas & getting pushed back in the seat. And shocking a few people that come to the line at the redlight, reving their engine & inching forward, thinking they are going to blow you away. Then are suprised when they have to play catch-up.

I'm not promoting street racing, I only run up to 10 over speed limit. This is for those people who are going to say something about this & how dangerous street racing is, blah blah blah.

 

nah its cool i do the same thing to an extent. some asshole in a corolla thinks hes got me beat well hes got anotherthing coming. no i dont speed infact i try to coast as much as possible. its just when stuff like that happens

 

"when stuff like that happens" you just gotta! I'm always getting some car pulling up wanting to go. On my way home from work @5am.

I'm like you I coast alot when I can

 

Agreed. Haven't had the problem yet in the truck, but I managed to put some people to shame with a Dodge Caravan back in high school - nothing is more humbling than getting stomped by a grocery rig.

MSN autos used to list 1/4 mile times for all vehicles, which was fun to look at. They've since taken that down.

 

According to GPS and Gtech, about 7.1-7.2 seconds to 60.

 

I call shens. That's sub-Supra times for a 1/4 mile

 

What Supra were you pushing? 1/4 mile would be over 16 seconds. Supra's are MUCH quicker than that.

http://www.autos.com/autos/truck/compact/2008/toyota/tacoma/prerunner_v6_style23

My figures are real world. Prove me wrong.

 

either you edited or I'm going blind i didn't see you say "to 60"

That was just the first thing that came to mind, after a quick google we got a 1993 Toyota Supra Turbo at 13.1 quarter mile (C&D Mar '93).

I've only ever looked at 1/4 mile times, I can't 'picture' 0-60 times.


EDIT: more googling, and

 

^My mistake, then. I did add in the 60 to clarify.

15.5 is unexpected. My Altima 3.5 SE ran low 15's so that's a hard one for me to believe. But, Phi Kai has been around the forums for a long time so I doubt he'd lie.

 

The fastest thing at my house right now is a '97 DeVille, and msn autos claimed it got 15.6. Sure, it's a boat, but trying to beat a 24 valve V8 designed to move that titanic with 4 fatties in it is still going to be hard to beat. It didn't sound like the guy was out to grow his e-peen though, so (insert heart smilies here) for our trucks!

If you read the thread, he was really beating on it as well - doing an rpm dump in 4wd and swapping to 2wd? I'd rather have the numbers for straight 2wd from a standstill at 0 RPM.