Picky picky picky - it's about Aussie cars and diesels but I just like pulling words and sentences apart #GM #language

In an idle moment I read this and instantly - and pedantically - thought it made no sense:

Harding is looking for an engine capable of a six-second 0-100km/h sprint time.

Obviously engines alone aren't capable of sprinting to 100km/h, unless you are measuring piston velocity; in which case this is a sluggish engine indeed. What they really wanted to say was that they are looking for an engine that would enable a vehicle of a pre-determined weight and aerodynamic drag coefficient to achieve the quoted performance. I guess they wanted brevity, but I am in a picky mood.

As an aside, why would you want a large sedan car such as the Holden Commodore, or any car for that matter, to meet a target of 6 seconds to 100km/h? Sure, it's to meet "the market benchmark" for performance sedan cars, but haven't we gotten over that faster-is-always-better mentality? Apparently not.

The article is suggesting, BTW, that Aussie GM arm Holden could fit into GM-Vauxhall's large (and possibly medium-sized) car rebadging plans, if and when Opel gets hived off to, say, FIAT. What a grand idea, shipping outdated, overweight Aussie cars thousands of kilometres across the globe against a backdrop of declining oil reserves. The article admits that this would be a more expensive option. Which to me means "unlikely" or "unsustainable".