roywolfey wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:54 pm
monkeyhanger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:52 pm
Cadwest wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:35 am
Not sure if this link has been posted up from Mat Watson before so apologies if it has, it’s from three weeks ago and during his review he tests the 0-60 and records a time of 6.4 seconds.
https://youtu.be/Pq6YL6EvKuk
I always wonder about these user/reviewer measured "0-60" times. Are they directly comparable to official figures? Are they measuring 0-62mph (100kmph) as the official figures do, or 0-60mph - which should be marginally quicker, especially if it avoids a gear change to 3rd that 0-62 may have had.
For what it’s worth, this video posts 0-60mph in 6.1 and 0-100kmh in 6.5
https://youtu.be/BGE6aaRIr7k
For comparison with the official figures, it's 0-100kmph that counts (62mph). Looking at the active display, you can see that the car got off to a great start , with some tyre squeal but no tramping and no serious traction control issues.
Traction control is switched off in launch mode, but it still lights up bottom left when there's some brief tramping on the gear change from 1st to 2nd and the speed blips up about 6kmphthen back down as the true speed registers after the tramping. Then it's away again, 3rd comes in at 87km/h. If it's a Czech car, it may well be on better rubber than Bridgestone Turanza (as we in the UK seem to get with Brescias). For the Performance Golfs at least, different markets get different tyres, the German forums have alluded to German/Austrian/Italian market Performance Golfs never coming on Bridgestone Potenzas) to avoid the 1st/2nd wheelspin.
Even so, if you consider the official times 0f 0-62 in 6.7s, if you assumed linear acceleration, that's almost 1.1mph gain for every 0.1s of time elapsed, so 0-60 would be about 2.2s quicker than 0.62. In reality it won't quite be linear in 1st and 2nd.