interesting article on SL600

[JiggaStyles09]

hey guys i found this article quite informative by car and driver. they tested out the new SL600 by mercedes and got some pretty damned quick times outta it. to the tune of 3.6 sec 0-60 and 11.9@120 mph quarter mile. i found these times to be very surprising considering mercedes claims like 4.5 sec 0-60 times i mean it states in the article that they got 4.5 0-60 and 13 sec quarter mile times outta the SL55 AMG. and they are similar in power. the explanation that they give in the article for the time differences is more TQ at lower RPMs but jeez about a full second on both 1/4 mile and 0-60 seems like a lot to me. maybe mercedes is underrating their power claims for the twin turbo V12 motor? who knows just curious on what you all thought of it.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=16&article_id=7782&page_number=1

[JiggaStyles09]

sorry meant to post this in the general forum, if someone could move it....thx

[TT]

General forum would have been wrong anyway.. car chat is the right one ;)

[FocalSpeed]

Mercedes-Benz's claims are very generous. All the Tests on their vehicles by the media get better results then Benz's claims which is always good. I remember the same result in the test of the SLK 32AMG's they had, the time Benz's claimed for 0-60mph was beaten at the tests, and it was consistently beaten, not just once but each time it was tested!

[JiggaStyles09]

hmmm i never realized that about mercedes but i was thinking also, that if this car does these times what kinda times are we looking at for the new 65s coming out i know they are making a CL65 and a S65, i assume a SL65 would follow. and the SLR, they claim at 3.8 so who knows. crazyness though.