Super sporty cars, like the Porsche 911, can hit 1.0 g. The Nissan Leaf, an all-electric hatchback made for efficient commuting, achieves less than that: a modest .79 g. A skidpad is a simple ...

Muscle car, pony car, sports car–Any of these terms ... distances ever recorded at 60 mph and a similarly impressive skid pad g-force number, I needed to know how. So I tossed a Dark Horse ...