What is considered "fast" these days?

To put things into perspective. I have friends with FWD, V6 cars running 13's on motor. Some have built hybrids(engine swap) that will run 12's or less(3800 SuperCharged). Even with 400+ horspower on tap and Limited slips they find it difficult to break into the 10's. The way I see it anything less than 12.'s takes a chunk of change. Another way to look at it is. There are people with smog-legal, all-motor cars, like my 1976 Maverick. I plan on it going 12's all-motor and passing smog. You should realize the difference between non-smog and smog cars.  

Seriously, talk is cheap.There is plenty of it flowing at the cruise nights and on the internet. As stated earlier, everyone runs 10's until they have to ante up at the track. IMO, I feel anything under 13.00 is a fast car. Obviously there are different levels of "fast". For me a car running 12's that on paper looks mild but the car is tuned well and has the perfect combination can be considered fast and deserves my respect. A N/A V6 running 13's is fast in my book as is the true 10 sec brawler. The trend I'm finding online is the dyno # competition between everyone. Everyone wants to get a big number on the dyno to brag about. Few seem to want to learn how to get their cars to actually run. Guys with mega RWHP can only muster 13's with traps in the 110+mph range. Most are even afraid to run their cars at the track for fear of embarassment after sinking thousands into their cars.  

Adding to that I guess in the end any car that can get out of control quickly due to it's power output can be considered fast. If you say only cars faster than 10 seconds are fast consider this, would you put your 15/16 year old kid who just finished drivers education and hardly any driving experience in a mid/low 11 second ride and say "have at it"? Not me.  

well that's an interesting way to look at it, lord knows i would have probably killed my self with an 11 second car when i was 16  

Zeus got me laughing about the online dyno # competition.  That is all too true among the import crowd around here.  It's funny how the import guys all just worry about a dyno number and the domestic crowd never dyno's their engines but just worries about et.  I know of a few 600+rwhp turbo cars that can't run below 7 sec et's in the 1/8th.  

I like alot of other people here used to think 13's were plenty quick. When my old truck started running low 12's at the strip I thought that was pretty quick. Now that i've got a pretty respectable 528 hemi under the hood 12's seem pretty lame. I'm willing to bet it will run pretty well into the 10's now. It also takes a whole new driving style now. Applying throttle at any speed under 50 is now a waste of time as the tires go to instant smoke.Dave  

I agree with Taman.  At cruise nights everyone runs 10's but never seem to be able to produce a time slip.  Talk is cheap and time slips don't lie.  I think anything in the 12's or faster is considered fast on the street.  My Chevelle runs low 12's and not much on the street can keep up.