0-60 1 person vs 5

[xxiii]

I believe your understanding is incorrect on 2 fronts.

First, the car will not display anything if you load it over payload. The only vehicle(s) I know that will do this are current Lightning / F-150s with the scale option.

Second, no vehicle will refuse to drive if the driver overloads it.

I guess I'm mis-remembering then. (but then I've been on flights where they announced if you didn't turn off your cellphones your cellular minutes for the month would be cancelled (before the days of "unlimited"), so I'm not entirely sure I made this up out of thin air, even if its incorrect. at this point I don't remember where I got this).

I would say, on the other side, a good lawyer could argue 5 roomy seats, including good headroom, and a large trunk, and a higher than typical HP for this type of car, implies a certain level of capability to do a job, while the weight "limit" is a small number in the door jam, lost in a bunch of other information (at least on my car). and also that the specified limit is unrealistic given said implications (not that i would ever want this to become a legal issue of some sort).

In reality land, 95% of the time, its just going to be me and little or no cargo (if I can talk myself out of hauling a generator security blanket around in case I ever run out of charge in the middle of nowhere).

Also, I hope I'm allowed to floor it uphill occasionally. (lots of twisty mountain roads around. lots of fun in my current car when in sport mode.

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While most of us are "obese" from a medical point of view (it doesn't take much), we're varying levels of social obeseness.

I have no idea if what I just said is, er, inappropriate by some definition or not, maybe I just coined a new term?

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[Murray Wells]

Random fast food, random slow food (sushi, bbq joint, etc), occasionally someone insists on "somewhere healthy". -probably a 4 to 1 ratio or so of fast food to slow food (it is lunch at worktime after all).

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Rephrasing my original question, just to be clear what I was after (not that the answer appears to be readily available, but maybe people who like to make youtube 0-60 videos could do this test some time(s))

What is the (real world) 0-60 time for 1 person in the car?
What is the 0-60 time for 5 adult people who could stand to lose a few pounds (or "typical american" as someone put it) in the same car?

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I noticed when I got my current car that the maximum payload capacity was potentially insufficient given that it claims to seat 5 and has a roomy rear seating area (AND large trunk). Also it can supposedly detect its over capacity, display a message and refuse to drive, but I've never seen that happen. The biggie in the manual was "this car does not support towing anything" (or words to that effect). Makes we wonder what happens in cars with wimpy engines and the same seating capacity though. (in my experience being a passenger in such cars, they just end up with a 0-60 or 20 seconds or so, while people start making jokes at the driver's expense).

(I suspect "maximum capacity" is a conservative number, for liability and warranty reasons).
Hm, might be nice if manufacturers were required to provide performance numbers when vehicle is at max capacity, on standard level pavement, at sea level.

European and UK MME AWD are approved to tow 1500KW braked and 750KW unbraked. NZ MME' AWD non gT's are approved to tow 1500 KG's braked. GT's are approved to tow 750kg only. Not sure why, possibly magnaride suspension? Cheers from Auckland NZ

 

[Wallie]

Get lighter friends…?

Or have lunch delivered?

 

[ChasingCoral]

Has anybody done any comparisons of 0-60 times (or similar metrics) with just a driver, vs 5, uh, not entirely in shape, individuals in the car?

My current car is quite snappy with just me, but at lets-all-go-to-lunch time (gotta maintain that shape) I have a much harder time making an, uh, impression.

An extra 800 pounds would be ~20% weight increase. Yeah, it'll slow things down a bit.

 

[dalola]

lol... not even the EV Koolaid can alter physics.....?

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