0-60 Time for '12 E-Class...Anyone???
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LOL! Small world! Wifey's from Miami too! Grew up in Carol City...but I must say, she can drive w/ the best of 'em! She had FWD @ that time, but she was fuming!!! It caught everyone up here off guard, because nobody was prepared for the amount/type of snow that was dumped that day...absolutely horrible!!! I would've been livid! I mean, for real, Mbenz260e...12 hours on the road?!! 4pm to 4am??? Really feel for your friend...you and I BOTH lucked up! If it were ME = ![wall](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/banghead.gif)
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'14 SL550 '12 e550, X5 5.0i
On the right hand column it says "Zero to 60 mph: 4.2 sec"
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The ambient temperature, track temperature, humidity, elevation, type of tires, whether or not the sun is shining, wind speed and direction, whether it rained the day before, and probably about 100 other things affect the 0-60 times, probably more than you think. You see it all the time in racing, and everybody speeds up or slows down pretty much by equal amounts. In a sense, it's really hard to say 4.2 and 4.5 are really all that much different unless they were done under exactly the same conditions.
Also, I've read that, most often, normal people wouldn't do things to their car that would get the 4.2 0-60 time. For manuals, I've read that they drop the clutch. The manufacturers times are probably closer to what a person would get treating their car normally. If I remember correctly, the "rolling start" numbers were intended to offset the rough treatment.
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Mine: 2008 E350 4Matic --- His: 2014 E 550 4Matic
wasnt implying that you didnt use autotrader... was just surprised that while your area is dry of 4matics C350, mine is flooded with them. I guess the Canadian weather makes for good 4matic markets ![Big Grin](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
as for the E class. absolutely! it is truly a beautiful machine. If I wasnt picking up a C63 in a week or so, I would be looking at a E class.
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as for the E class. absolutely! it is truly a beautiful machine. If I wasnt picking up a C63 in a week or so, I would be looking at a E class.
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Look at the fine print. I bet there was a 1-foot roll-out involved and that is cheating. IMHO there is no way the 550 engine can do much better than 5 seconds or maybe a 4.9 unless the numbers are fixed somehow with a rollout or some other way... But what are we arguing here anyway? 5 seconds is pretty darn good and likely 99% better than anything on the road.
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