Jaspers raised a Query, on another post of mine, re my E320 CDi Estate Car's 0 - 60 MPH time that is on my Banner.

I Quote 7.8 Secs.

M/B UK Quotes - Acceleration 0-62.5 mph (secs) 8.3

I ran mine up using a very PRO piece of Kit, not from the Auto industry, that utilies Solid State accelerometers and a 3 Axis Gyro.
You only have to weigh the Car and input the Total in Kg's immediatly before the test.
When you are ready to go it has to be stationary for 5 seconds before you start.

Whilst I am fairly technical it seemed like magic to me.
Accuracy is better than 1%.

My Kerb Weight was - 1829 Kg including Myself, Passenger, Fuel and Factory Extras.
Less Spare wheel and tools (To partly allow for the passenger who had to work the "Gismo". He would not let me play with it unsupervised)

M/B has about 25% Fuel and Driver Only for tests so this seemed fair.

Mine is an Avantgard Model with lowered Suspension. (Don't know if this would help ??)

Tyres were inflated and checked to standard road use Lbs Sq In.

We set the record point to 96.6 Kph (A whisker over 60 MPH)

The M/B Figure of 62.5 MPH is a rough conversion of their 0 - 100 KPH timing.
62 .5 MPH actually equals = 100.58375 KPH = 8.3 Seconds (Quote - M/B UK Web Site)

This was an average of 6 Runs (3 Each Way to allow for windage)
Max was 7.93 - Min was 7.71. Very low windspeed that day.

The surface we were on was absolutely flat and smooth as a billiard ball.

The Tiptronic Gearbox was left to do it's own thing.

I left the ASR on (We have a factory supplied switch to turn it off in the UK)

I let the revs go to about 2k or so before lifting the brakes, to get the Turbo spun up, and I did a number of practice starts to get the technique right.

This was on my old, 2000 Model, that had done 47k Miles.

I recently did the same with my new, 2002 Model CDi Estate Car (Silver), at 14k Miles and the result was almost identical (Less than 0.1 second) over the same 6 runs on a Zero Windspeed day.

We actually tried 2 runs, on the Old car with the ASR switched off and suffered by almost 0.4 Second.
When we tried ASR = ON and me changing gear, using the Tiptronic, the results were terrible.
I'm sure thay would have been improved with practice but I hardly ever use it in day-to-day motoring.
Shows how good ASR and the Tiptronic Gearbox are.

The interesting point comes when we analysed the data in depth over a drink later.
It showed that up to about 6 - 8 Mph the average rate of accelleration was not brilliant.
But as soon as the Diesel Engine started to bite into the Torque Curve (347 Ft Lbs, More than a M/B V8 500 Engine) and the Turbo was fully Spun-Up it really started to Fly.

In fact I have experienced more ASR indications with this Diesel engine when I first had the Black model, in the wet driving normally (But Robustly), than I ever thought would occur.

Hope this clarifies my 0 - 60 MPH statement.

Regards

Mike