J_Bomb

So is yours!! According to Car and Driver The top gear acceleration in a Corvette from 30-50 is 10.2 seconds the Viper does it in 10.3 and the tC does it in 8.5 Seconds! The top gear acceleration in a Corvette from 50-70 is 9.8 seconds in a Viper 9.7 seconds and in a tC 9.0 seconds! If you would ever be stupid enough to race a viper or a corvette hopefully they would mess up and upshift too early

fivepointnine

because the TC is geared stupidly low!!!! haha

J_Bomb

haha stupidly more acceleration haha

pkg

Heh, the tC is awesome!

metalranger33

hahahahahaha and the noob award of the year gos to..................

OldPueblo

I'm gonna get a tC and my buddy is getting a viper. I'll let you know. Just kidding, I'm getting an automatic. Maybe I'll cheat...

TimmyT

I think toyota is putting something in the water after reading this post But hey if you can convince one of those guys to race yah from a roll in top gear. Put money on it! LOL

J_Bomb

Don't think I would ever be dumb enough to race these cars but facts are facts my friend and the post got your attention and made you reply didn't it? Learn how to spell goes

Somnambulated

Learn to use punctuation marks. I don't think those numbers are as important as their 0-60 times, but it's cool to know!

J_Bomb

Hey thanks for the advice. In real world driving rolling acceleration is used way more. Just think you are the highway going 60 and the new driver of the viper next to you doesn't want you to pass him and doesn't think to downshift when you try to pass him. You might have a slight chance of getting by him.

fivepointnine

on my way to pick up my roommate from work I did a 3rd gear roll run with an older grand national...I smoked him, talk about some turbo lag!!

dsmith5237

This is because those speeds are insanely slow for a car of that caliber in top gear. They should be 80+ in top gear, not 30-50.

J_Bomb

Very good, I agree. But you have to admit it's interesting though.

fivepointnine

yup...just like back in the day when the MR2 supercharged would smoke ANY car made up until 30mph

Mediocre_Generica

they do some of those tests by just putting the car in the highest or second to highest gear and flooring it, so I'm not all that suprised, especially if they kept the tC in third gear.

boostedscion

thats a pretty interesting fact!

ikhonlord

THIS is why we get so many "I smoked a (fill in the blank) with my TC" because they consider "smoking" a car when they pull for the first 5 seconds...

scrap

I pulled up on a viper and told the driver lets see what u got, he told me to go first. I took off and got about 15 cars head of him then he took off and just blew by me like a bat at off hell!!! Best of all he didn't get the car out of third gear.

jmiller20874

So am I to understand that they tested this 30-50mph in 5th gear or do they drop it to 3rd from 5th? What type of real-world application does this have? Sounds like a pretty pointless stat to me.

CyRaX2007

i've been in a viper and i dont think ive ever experienced acceleration like that in my life, it is absolutlely amazing and i dont care how much these numbers can appear confusing, but like everyone else said the viper would ____ on the tC...

i'm getting one as my next car even if it takes 7-10 years!