I timed myself once (very unofficial and not terribly accurate, using the timer function of the Nav system)
0-100-0 in 20 seconds. But I was towing a trailer!
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It's obvious that Autocar can't drive a manual transmision
Geesh, that is a full second slower to 60 than almost any other test I've seen and 1.5 > to 100. Throw in the longest reaction time of any car in the test and it's obvious to me they were throwing the results.
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The times you posted donīt say anything. That car, which was the first one Autocar tested, had a really bad clutch because it had been a tested by some german magazines before.
The real time from Autocarīs 0-100-0 challenge is 15,7 seconds.
The M5 tested was probably in '99, which is a slower car than the current M5 model. The current ECU is Siemens and the intake plumbing is different. I have seen a lot of really bogus M5 times all over the place.
The current M5, tested confirmed by a least 5-10 tests in the U.S., is about 4.7 seconds to 60 m.p.h. This equates to 4.9 to 5.0 seconds to 100 km./hr. The time to 100 m.p.h is around 11.2 seconds or so. The 1/4-mile is about 13.2 seconds on average. Why do European mags. show such inaccurate times for the M5 over and over? Are Euro. M5s a lot heavier?
5.7 seconds. I'm really getting tired of people regurgitating data that is clearly in error.