An essential quality in a fast car is how quickly it can become a stopped car.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g ... 739&src=nl
I almost didn't look at this because it's one of those picture shows. But I'm glad I did.
These are all 70-0 stopping distances.
Side note, Car and Driver cannot count so there are missing numbers for some reason. Looks like they reused numbers that were not ties. Unless they are using decimal values for the ranking and just rounding for the site. Whatever.You could make a case that the brakes are the most important part of your car whether you're on the street or the track. And brakes are often the major limiting factor in how many hot laps you can do consecutively. When the brakes get too hot, the pedal gets soft, and the brakes might not bite enough when you need them to. That can be a challenge when hauling down a car from triple-digit speeds; just ask any of our Lightning Lap drivers (especially the one who ended up in the Turn 1 tire wall due to brake failure on a Nissan 370Z NISMO). Braking isn't just about brakes, either. The car's weight and especially its tires also play a huge part in the process. With every vehicle that Car and Driver tests, we perform a 70-mph-to-zero braking test to determine, as the name suggests, how many feet it takes for a car to come to a complete stop from 70 miles per hour, using a GPS-based VBOX data logger from Racelogic. For context, full-size pickups often need nearly 200 feet, whereas sports cars are down in the 150-foot range, with the best even lower. Without further ado, we present a list of the 16 shortest-stopping cars we have tested:
#13 2019 McLaren Senna - 136 ft
$982,816
#13 2017 Corvette Grand Sport - 136 ft
$66,445The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport is truly a bargain sports car with some crazy performance on tap. It shoots to 60 mph from a standstill in less than four seconds and stops equally well, needing only 136 feet to go from 70 mph to zero. The crazy thing is that this number is achieved on Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires and iron brakes. There's a more aggressive brake, tire, and aero setup available for the Grand Sport, which makes an appearance later in this list.
#13 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari - 136 ft
$1,420,112
#13 2015 Corvette Stingray Convertible Z51 - 136 ft
$84,840
#11 2018 Lamborghini Huracán Performante - 135 ft
$317,285
#11 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera - 135 ft
$110,970
#10 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 - 135 ft
$142,265
#8 2017 Dodge Viper ACR - 134 ft
$154,885
#8 2015 Corvette Z06 Convertible w/ Z07 - 134 ft
$113,835
#6 2018 Porsche 911 Turbo S - 133 ft
$193,440
#6 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R- 133 ft
$195,945
#4 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Weissach - 129 ft
$348,730
#4 2017 Corvette Grand Sport w/ Z07 - 129 ft
$95,040
#2 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS - 128 ft
$208,717
#2 2015 Corvette Z06 w/ Z07 - 128 ft
$97,595
#1 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 - 127 ft
$143,810
5 out of these 16 cars (almost 1/3rd) are Corvettes. Two of the cars in this list hit the $1M mark, and they're on the bottom (top) of the list for performance at #13. The only cars to get under the $100k mark were Corvettes and four of the five Corvettes on this list were under $100k as tested. At this point I think my two all time favorites as far as the ones I'd pursue to put in my garage would be a C6 ZR1 or a C7 Grand Sport (without Z07). This is really impressive.