elondan

How is it done?
how many people in the car? do they have to weight a certain weight? ...

wilf

In Autocar if you read the road test small print it says the car is with 2 passengers and a full tank of fuel.

tony1979

Dump the clutch @ 4000 and fly! Not too many times though, or you'll be paying for a new clutch!

cletterridge

I agree with Wilf on how Autocar do their tests. However, every magazines 0-60 time must be taken with a large pinch of salt. For example, in some magazines the new MR2 is quoted at 6.5 seconds, while others say it's more like 8.1 seconds - quite a difference if you were using that benchmark as a deciding factor on your purchase.

Of far more significance is the weather on the day of the test (wet = poor 0-60 times for most cars), the ability of the drivers (anyone can change at the limiter, but getting cleanly away is a real art, ask any quarter milers here), how old the test car is (some engines remain really tight until well after at least 10-15,000 miles, so much better in gear figures are obtained on cars that have had a chance to be run in properly), how badly the clutch and gearbox are abused (you would not drive any car you were going to keep like these tester guys do!), the road surface, and of course how lardy the road testers and equipment are. Factor all these points in and you can see how all the magazines manage to disagree so wildly on performance figures for various cars.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Like said before alot of its down to the driver, a friend of mine used to work for saab GB head quarters and had the job of running in the test cars for magazines, top gear etc and was told to thrash the nuts off them so they are as loose os possible to get the best figures he had to run in a 2.3 turbo 9000 and an old boy had to run in an aero (really fast one) and the 2.3 turbo had the faster times how embarresd must they have been? on a 4 wheel drive its a real art to launch it because you dont want to fry the clutch or bog it down by coming off boost. I have had a few runs up the quarter mile and 0-60 against the clock and it aint easy.

[Edited by paulpalmer - 4/26/2002 10:25:45 AM]

boyband_pete

We Have a list of 0-60 times on our web site 2 scoobys, on there best time's 0-30, out of all the cars.
The 2 scoobys are UK cars de-cat-ed
We would love to get some info on a 22B or a car with a anti-lag system.
The closed road*
We use is in the maidenhead area
let me know if any one can help.

*not closed road

tony1979

Couldn't get your URL to work Pete (Domain unknown).

boyband_pete

http://www.fluke-motorsport.co.uk/ap-22/ap-22.html

Hole range of cars tested using a AP-22
From a Caterham to a moped

tony1979

Ahh! But your profile has .com Sort it out!

Fluke Motorsport

[Edited by tony1979 - 4/26/2002 2:47:03 PM]

boyband_pete

*slap*
Silly boy sorry!
Thank you for bringing it to my notice

skiddusmarkus

Saw a 22b at York and he got very disappointing 1/4 mile times-best of just over 14secs at about 98mph if I remember right.This would usually indicate a 0-60 of about 5.5-6secs on an AWD car.He came last in qualifying and went home for an early bath.Maybe he'd never done it before or didn't want to kill the car but I was expecting more.