When your car-obsessed buddy, a professional car journalist, or even the automaker itself says something like, "The McLaren 750S gets from zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.3 seconds,” you know that’s a quick car. Highway speed from a standstill in about the same amount of time it takes to phonetically say “McLaren seven-fifty S" is no small feat.

 

A car’s 0-60 mph time feels like one of those conventions that’s simply been around forever because, for most of us, it kind of has. There used to be a car magazine literally called 0-60, and there are even memes of former President Joe Biden pointing at [insert comically slow motorized vehicle here] and marveling at its ability to go from "zero to 60 in 4.1 seconds."