RE: Official: Mercedes A45 AMG

[Wolands Advocate]

Kronstein said:

Revised (with launch control) 0-60 time for the A45AMG in this week's Autocar of 4.2 seconds.

That must have been embarrassing! Especially since I recall the "tester's notes" section stating that the car really should have launch control fitted. Major "doh"!

[Kronstein]

Wolands Advocate said:

Kronstein said:

Revised (with launch control) 0-60 time for the A45AMG in this week's Autocar of 4.2 seconds.

That must have been embarrassing! Especially since I recall the "tester's notes" section stating that the car really should have launch control fitted. Major "doh"!

Yep. Just noticed they've updated the 0-60 time in their back pages archive but the 0-100 time remains as it was....

[Vladimir]

Kronstein said:

Revised (with launch control) 0-60 time for the A45AMG in this week's Autocar of 4.2 seconds.

Now that is VERY quick! Still don't like them though.

[CraigyMc]

Kronstein said:

Yep. Just noticed they've updated the 0-60 time in their back pages archive but the 0-100 time remains as it was....

CraigyMc said:

I've thought of them as bashing out stuff as quickly as possible without checking any details for many many years.

C

I rest my case.

[pilchardthecat]

Launch control 4.2s, or 5.2s without?

Very confusing - a whole second - launch control is meaningless really, most people use it once or twice for the novelty value and then never touch it again

[Wolands Advocate]

Also, in my M5, if you used the launch control more than three times (or something like that), you could expensively kiss goodbye to your clutch...

Left it well alone myself. Car was amply quick enough without it.