Short clip of a 0-60 acceleration. The vehicle is a 1995 SL500 (123K miles). Great sound.

http://videos.streetfire.net/categor...777A07AF0A.htm

 

More vivid sound than my clip. See post # 2 of this link:

https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...rformance+test

But I went faster. Up to 110 mph.

 

Great video Chris.

 

I think that by the looks of the acceleration in the second video my R accelerates faster possible?

 

The R129 is 6.1 seconds 0 to 60 mph standing start. On a good day.

Chris

 

I doubt it; both vehicles have the same 24V 5.0 Litre V8, and the R is much heavier, 5000 lbs vs. the 4200 lbs of the SL500. MB states a 0-60 time of 6.7 seconds for the R500. In fact, the only advantage the R500 has over an R129 SL500 would be the 7 speed gearbox. But I doubt that is enough to compensate for an extra 800 lbs.

 

For those of you wondering about the shift points in my video clip:

About a year ago I posted elsewhwere on the board ... a link that contained a graph of the gears of the 5 speed R129 transmission. Both 4th and 5th gears go to high speeds without hitting 6,000 rpm.

https://mbworld.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=104473

After re-posting here:

What??? The link is dead? Can it be restored???

I have no time to mess arround with it.

Sorry

 

A better link:

https://mbworld.org/forums/sl-class-r129/104473-revs-rpm.html