“If you go back to 10 years ago, probably when we were asked the parameters to measure a car with we would say top speed, acceleration and [then] handling,” said Scardaoni. “Then top speed became a secondary measure, acceleration the first one. Scardaoni goes on to explain why handling is arguably a more important factor than acceleration when measuring a car’s performance. After all, it’s easy for car manufacturers to brag about how fast a car can accelerate from 0-60 mph in a straight line, but it still needs to be enjoyable to drive at high speed.”What is really now making the difference is the drivability of the car, the handling,” he said. “Because when you have good acceleration but the car is heavy to steer, heavy to handle, you cannot have that pleasure of driving in a really fast way.”