How Fast Your Car Accelerates to 100km/h?

It’s not a secret that every car owner, regardless of his age or gender, at least once in his life tried to consider how fast his car is. But, as you know, there are several concepts of speed: 

• The maximum speed which can be reached by your car;

• And acceleration of your car (usually from 0 to 100km/h).

The maximum speed is a less important feature, because it depends mostly on the electronic limiter, which doesn’t allow your car to go faster. So, due to this fact, we will focus on the accelerating of the car.

According to the mechanical principles, acceleration from 0 to 100km/h means how much time (in seconds) or what distance (in meters) your car needs to reach the speed of 100km/h.

So, what determines the dynamics of the car acceleration?

• Power of the engine.

Everything here is very simple: the more engine capacity is - the faster and more dynamic your car is.

• Vehicle weight.

Weight has also a great influence to the acceleration of your vehicle: the less weight of your car is – the faster it accelerates. 

NOTE: When reducing the weight of your car by 10%, acceleration time is also reduces by 10%.

For example: we have a car with a mass of 1000 kg, which accelerates to 100km/h in 12 seconds. If we reduce the weight to 900 kg, this car will reach 100km/h in 10.8 seconds!

• Transmission type.

There’s no the only right answer what is better between automatic and manual transmissions. Every car owner chooses what is more convenient for him.

Using automatic transmission - you won’t waste your time shifting gears, but at the same time, you cannot overclock your engine to max rotations per minute, which gives a better acceleration.

Manual transmission - gives you better control over the vehicle – you can shift gears on the max rotations of your engine, but you’ll miss several seconds shifting gears.

• Diameter of driving wheels.

With decreasing of radius of the wheels, the maximum speed decreases and the traction force (and acceleration) becomes greater. With increasing of radius – the maximum speed increases but it becomes heavier for your engine to spin the wheels of larger diameter, and your acceleration will be slower.

• Road surface condition.

The coefficient of adhesion of wheels and road surface depends on the type and quality of the road surface and on its condition. Dust, dirt and motor oil make the slip road worse. Of course, if the road surface is wet after the rain, your car will also slide when accelerating.

As you can see, all of these parameters give its influence to the acceleration time of the car. 

But let’s get back to our main question - what car is really faster?

Well, we’ve tested 10 most popular serial cars with the following characteristics:

And now, look through our gifographic about these 10 most common cars in motion and find out which ones are faster in acceleration to 100 km/h!

If you are going to buy a new car, but don’t know which one to choose, don’t worry, because we have an excellent solution for you! 

You can use a car rental service to compare your favorite cars in real life and make the only right choice when buying a car. 

This will help you to save your money and you’ll certainly know which car suits you the best!

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