Vehicles & Machines

The Quickest-Accelerating Production Cars (0–60 mph)

Car and Driver’s instrumented tests put a 1,250-hp hybrid Corvette first at 1.8 seconds, with an EV sedan and a Porsche at 1.9. Acceleration, not top speed, ranks these 17 road-legal production cars.

Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X, the quickest-accelerating production car in Car and Driver’s June 2026 retest

Pictured: the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X, from MotorTrend’s test video; the ZR1X is #1 with a 1.8-second 0–60 mph run in Car and Driver’s June 2026 retest (as reported by Carscoops; the magazine’s own first test gave 2.1 s).

Rank Car 0–60 mph (s) Model year Powertrain Country / maker Tested by
1Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X1.82026HybridUSA / ChevroletCar and Driver (June 2026 retest)
=2Lucid Air Sapphire1.92025EVUSA / LucidCar and Driver
=2Porsche Taycan Turbo GT (Weissach Package)1.92025EVGermany / PorscheCar and Driver
=4Ferrari SF90 Stradale2.02021HybridItaly / FerrariCar and Driver
=4Porsche 911 Turbo S (992.2)2.02026HybridGermany / PorscheCar and Driver
=6Lamborghini Temerario2.12026HybridItaly / LamborghiniCar and Driver
=6Porsche 911 Turbo S Lightweight (992.1)2.12021GasGermany / PorscheCar and Driver
=6Porsche 918 Spyder2.12015HybridGermany / PorscheCar and Driver (May 2014)
=6Tesla Model S Plaid2.12021EVUSA / TeslaCar and Driver (Dec 2021)
=10Bugatti Chiron Super Sport2.22022GasFrance / BugattiCar and Driver
=10Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 (ZTK package)2.22025GasUSA / ChevroletCar and Driver
=10Lamborghini Huracán Performante2.22018GasItaly / LamborghiniCar and Driver (Oct 2017)
=10Lamborghini Revuelto2.22024HybridItaly / LamborghiniCar and Driver
14McLaren 750S2.32024GasUK / McLarenCar and Driver
=15Bugatti Chiron Sport2.42021GasFrance / BugattiCar and Driver (Dec 2020)
=15Ferrari 296 GTB2.42023HybridItaly / FerrariCar and Driver
=15Porsche Taycan Turbo S2.42020EVGermany / PorscheCar and Driver (Feb 2020)

How this is ranked: every row is a 0–60 mph time that Car and Driver measured on its own instruments for a road-legal production car, with the one-foot rollout (0.2 seconds) removed, the convention the magazine and MotorTrend share. Using one magazine for every row keeps the numbers comparable, but Car and Driver reports to a tenth of a second, so ties are common; tied cars share a rank and are listed alphabetically, not by who is truly quicker. Results vary with surface, temperature, tires, a hybrid or EV’s state of charge and the day: Car and Driver’s own ZR1X went from 2.1 to 1.8 seconds on a retest, and other magazines get different numbers for the same car (MotorTrend 2.2 s for the Temerario, for example). Model year is the car’s model year, not the test year. The Sapphire’s 1.9 and the ZR1X’s 1.8 rest on press reports of Car and Driver’s results, not the magazine’s own model pages (see Sources). A few cars Car and Driver has tested but that are variants of listed models are left out.[1]

Manufacturer claims, not ranked: Rimac says its Nevera R ran 0–60 mph in 1.66 seconds and the Nevera in 1.74 (runs set at the maker’s own tests and logged by Dewesoft, with Racelogic as well for the Nevera); Chevrolet reports 1.68 seconds for the ZR1X on a prepared drag strip, and Pininfarina 1.79 for the Battista. These are runs organized by the manufacturers, not independent magazine tests, so they are not ranked. Tesla’s next-generation Roadster has not entered production and has no independent test, so it appears nowhere on this list.

The Top 10

#1

Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X — 1.8 s

A 1,250-hp hybrid, with 1,064 hp from its twin-turbo V-8 and the rest from a front electric motor. Car and Driver’s first run, on a dusty surface, was 2.1 seconds and 9.2 in the quarter mile; after a retest on fresh Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires, with the ZTK Performance package and its big rear wing, the same car ran 1.8 seconds to 60 mph and 8.9 at 155 mph through the quarter, the first production car the magazine has timed in the 8s. Its two-way, two-run-each-direction figures came on a good-grip day with a warm battery. Chevrolet’s own 1.68 seconds on a prepared drag strip is a manufacturer figure and is not ranked here.[2]

#2 (tie)

Lucid Air Sapphire — 1.9 s

A 1,234-hp, three-motor, five-seat sedan that weighs about 5,300 pounds. Press coverage of Car and Driver’s results has it at 1.9 seconds and a 9.1-second quarter mile at 155 mph, level with the Taycan Turbo GT, a tenth behind the ZR1X. The same magazine’s earlier test of a standard-tire Sapphire gave 2.1 seconds, and MotorTrend reported 1.881 seconds after Lucid’s optional $8,250 Pirelli track-tire package arrived, so tires move this car by several tenths.[3]

#2 (tie)

Porsche Taycan Turbo GT (Weissach Package) — 1.9 s

Car and Driver calls it the first vehicle of any kind to reach 60 mph in under two seconds in its instrumented testing, at 1.9 seconds with a 9.3-second quarter mile at 150 mph. It is a two-motor, two-speed EV with up to 1,019 hp on overboost and weighed 5,203 pounds as tested, on Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS Elect tires.[4]

#4 (tie)

Ferrari SF90 Stradale — 2.0 s

A plug-in hybrid with 986 hp from a twin-turbo V-8 and three electric motors, and the car that ended the Porsche 918 Spyder’s run as Car and Driver’s quickest. Ferrari’s own estimate was 2.5 seconds; the magazine measured 2.0, launching at 3,500 rpm with the gearbox in manual, and a 9.5-second quarter mile at 148 mph.[5]

#4 (tie)

Porsche 911 Turbo S (992.2) — 2.0 s

The first hybrid 911 Turbo S has 701 hp and weighed 3,833 pounds on Car and Driver’s scales. It matched the SF90 to 60 mph at 2.0 seconds, then covered the quarter mile in 9.7 seconds at 142 mph and reached 100 mph in 4.8 seconds. The magazine reports 2.2 seconds without the one-foot rollout.[6]

#6 (tie)

Lamborghini Temerario — 2.1 s

Lamborghini’s V-8 plug-in hybrid, weighing 4,199 pounds as tested on Bridgestone Potenza Race tires. Car and Driver ran 2.1 seconds to 60 mph and a 9.4-second quarter mile at 150 mph, beating the bigger Revuelto on both. MotorTrend’s own test of the car was a tenth slower at 2.2 seconds, so a different magazine would order the close pack differently.[7]

#6 (tie)

Porsche 911 Turbo S Lightweight (992.1) — 2.1 s

With the Lightweight Package the 640-hp car weighed 3,557 pounds, about 90 less than the standard 2021 Turbo S, which Car and Driver timed at 2.2 seconds. The lighter car ran 2.1 seconds to 60 mph, 100 mph in 5.1 seconds and a 9.9-second quarter mile at 138 mph.[8]

#6 (tie)

Porsche 918 Spyder — 2.1 s

An 887-hp hybrid with a V-8 and two electric motors, tested in May 2014 at $875,175 and 3,724 pounds. Car and Driver named it the quickest car of the decade at 2.1 seconds. Several secondary sites list 2.2 seconds for it instead, so the magazine’s own decade list is used here. Porsche built 918 of them.[9]

#6 (tie)

Tesla Model S Plaid — 2.1 s

The tri-motor sedan ran 2.1 seconds and 9.4 at 151 mph in Car and Driver’s December 2021 test at 4,827 pounds. Tesla quotes 1.99 seconds, but that figure uses a rollout and a prepared surface; MotorTrend measured 2.07 seconds, a gap the embedded video walks through.[10]

#10 (tie)

Bugatti Chiron Super Sport — 2.2 s

The only quad-turbo W16 on the list: 1,578 hp, 4,587 pounds, $4.3 million as tested. Its 2.2 seconds to 60 mph is slow by the standard of this list, but it ran the quarter mile in 9.1 seconds at 161 mph, reached 150 mph in 8.0 seconds and stopped from 70 mph in 159 feet.[11]

Cars Acceleration Supercars Electric Vehicles Records

Sources

  1. Method and ranks 11–17: Car and Driver model and test pages, each listing its “C/D Test Results” with the note that results omit a one-foot rollout of 0.2 seconds — Corvette ZR1 (caranddriver.com, ZR1 2.2 s with ZTK package), Lamborghini Revuelto (caranddriver.com, 2.2 s), McLaren 750S (caranddriver.com, 2.3 s), Ferrari 296 GTB (caranddriver.com, 2.4 s); Car and Driver, “The Quickest Cars of the Decade (with 1-foot rollout)” (caranddriver.com) for the Huracán Performante (2.2 s, tested October 2017), Chiron Sport (2.4 s, December 2020) and Taycan Turbo S (2.4 s, February 2020). Model years follow Car and Driver’s page for each car. Manufacturer-claim figures in the note come from Chevrolet (news.gm.com, 1.68 s), Motor Authority and Yahoo Autos reporting Rimac’s Nevera and Nevera R runs (1.74 s and 1.66 s, logged by Dewesoft and Racelogic) and Pininfarina’s Battista run in Dubai (1.79 s).
  2. Car and Driver, 2026 Corvette ZR1X test (caranddriver.com, first test: 2.1 s, 9.2 s at 155 mph); the June 2026 retest (1.8 s, 8.9 s at 155 mph, 100 mph in 3.7 s, Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R, ZTK package, one-foot rollout of 0.2 s) is as reported by Carscoops, “Corvette ZR1X acceleration test” (carscoops.com) and Corvette Blogger (corvetteblogger.com); Car and Driver’s own ZR1X page still showed the first test when checked for this post.
  3. Car and Driver, 2024 Lucid Air Sapphire test (caranddriver.com, standard Michelin tires: 2.1 s, 9.3 s at 153 mph, 5,345 lb); the 1.9 s, 9.1 s at 155 mph result is as reported in the Carscoops comparison table above and in Jalopnik, “Lucid Air Sapphire Is The Quickest Car MotorTrend Has Ever Tested” (jalopnik.com, which says the Sapphire holds the quickest-ever title at both magazines and gives MotorTrend’s 1.881 s with the $8,250 track-tire package).
  4. Car and Driver, Porsche Taycan page (caranddriver.com, Turbo GT Weissach: 1.9 s, 9.3 s at 150 mph, 5,203 lb, Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS Elect; “the first vehicle of any kind to reach 60 mph in under two seconds in our instrumented testing”).
  5. Car and Driver, Ferrari SF90 page (caranddriver.com, 2.0 s; Ferrari’s 2.5 s estimate; record until the Taycan Turbo GT) and its decade list entry above (the 918 Spyder dethroned); launch at 3,500 rpm and 9.5 s at 148 mph as reported in Yahoo Autos, “Blink and They’re Gone” (autos.yahoo.com).
  6. Car and Driver, Porsche 911 Turbo / Turbo S page (caranddriver.com, 2.0 s, 100 mph in 4.8 s, 9.7 s at 142 mph, 3,833 lb); the 2.2 s figure without rollout and the tie with the SF90 as reported by Carscoops (carscoops.com).
  7. Car and Driver, Lamborghini Temerario page (caranddriver.com, 2.1 s, 9.4 s at 150 mph, 4,199 lb, Bridgestone Potenza Race); MotorTrend’s 2.2 s as reported by Carscoops (carscoops.com).
  8. Car and Driver, 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S page (caranddriver.com, Lightweight Package: 2.1 s, 100 mph in 5.1 s, 9.9 s at 138 mph, 3,557 lb; standard car 2.2 s, 3,646 lb).
  9. Car and Driver, “The Quickest Cars of the Decade (with 1-foot rollout)” (caranddriver.com, 918 Spyder 2.1 s, tested May 2014, $875,175, 3,724 lb). The 2.2 s figure found on some secondary sites does not match this page.
  10. Car and Driver, Tesla Model S page (caranddriver.com, 2.1 s, 9.4 s at 151 mph, 4,827 lb), and its decade-list entry (tested December 2021, $137,440); Tesla’s 1.99 s and MotorTrend’s 2.07 s via Electrek, “Tesla Model S Plaid breaks records in first independent test but 0-60 mph caveat” (electrek.co).
  11. Car and Driver, Bugatti Chiron page (caranddriver.com, Chiron Super Sport: 2.2 s, 9.1 s at 161 mph, 150 mph in 8.0 s, 4,587 lb, 159 ft from 70 mph); $4,301,450 as tested from the Carscoops ZR1X comparison table cited in note 2.