What a handy page!

[F3RNANDO]

I found this a handy compendium which may be of interest to some:

Water cooled road tests

Some of the links are broken but its interesting to see the various performance figures managed by the mags.....

[scarebus]

Nice, but there are some optimistic times on there, 0-60 3.9secs for 997C2S ???

[F3RNANDO]

scarebus said:

Nice, but there are some optimistic times on there, 0-60 3.9secs for 997C2S ???

Same test has a 190hp elise at 4.6 seconds.........which is also a bit quicker than the production claim??

[mrh1275]

my manual spyder is quoted at 5.1 secs 0-60
road and track got 4.7 sec

[thegoose]

Are they using a downhill track?

[RiccardoG]

Could the differences be in the fact that Porche claims 0 - 100 kmh (~62mph) times while the tests are for 0 - 60 mph times?

[franki68]

scarebus said:

Nice, but there are some optimistic times on there, 0-60 3.9secs for 997C2S ???

tend to be US mags,they dont test 2 up ,they often adjust the figures to account for atmospheric conditions and they often will quote an acceleration time including a rollout ,hence some ridiclous figures..I recall one got an amg merc sl65 to 60 in 3.3 seconds or something....3.3 seconds is the time you spend going sideways as you try to launch one of those .