My Saturn has enough grunt for that. I haven't needed to go WOT while merging onto a highway before. I have just for fun, but not because I absolutely had to. 0-60 in 8.5 seconds is good enough for me.
My car, when it was NEW did 0-60 in 8.9 seconds. With 200,000 miles I doubt that's faster than 11 or 12...
...and since I can't go anywhere near the max power, that means it's closer to 20 seconds - which is just plain aggravating to me and EVERYONE behind and around me on the road.