Ale, I don't choose those star-ratings. Nor does Heyhuub or Wads. These star
ratings are automatically generated according to FL Rank. You can learn about FL
Rank in "About" section. If it has one star it does not mean it is a bad
car.
And don't worry about your English skills. I am not that good at
that front either.
Clarkson was totally obsessed with this car. I wonder how much did Mercedes pay
for such an impressive 10 minute long advertisment. :D No kidding, that was very
impressive clip. The best part of show. And that car has to be good, otherwise
Jeremy couldn't glorify it so much, no matter how much Mercedes is offering.
As I see 8.05 was from Sport Auto (same driver who did 7.46 with Superleggera so
Merc is NOT faster). The 8.02 from Auto bild is close, but this 7.45? 17sec is a
huge gap even for a track like Nordschleife. Anybody knows something about that?
At A156, you have to careful with lap times, particularily at the Ring where
manufactures and testers drive the cars. Manufacturer tested cars are usually
much faster. For example, the 430 Scuderia. It ran about 7:40. The ACR ran 7:22,
but both cars are equally fast (the 430 might even be faster with better
downforce/weight ratio and less drag). There's also the Zonda F which I am
certain will kill the two car ahead of it.
Then you have to take into account that cars are run on different days, and that
potentially makes a huge difference. The only time it's really safe to directly
compare lap times is when there is a huge number of laps on the same track
and/or the laps were done on the same day in the same test.
Werty, Wikipedia is a great source of information, the biggest encyclopedia in
the world. But you can not refer to wikipedia. Not just in case of lap times.
Wikipedia should not be used as reference and should not be quoted anywhere
because it's content changes frequently and sometimes the information found in
it turns out to be absolute bullcrap. And you never know the authors who got
that information and where did they obtain it. Wikipedia is great for learning
stuff for your own good but not a serious source of information to refer to. It
is just too volatile and vulnerable.
specially if the car magazine to which the wiki refers do NOT back up the Wiki
informantion... sportauto has all Northloop laptimes online.. they have never
tested the C63 AMG black seires at the Ring ...so impossible to make a sportauto
laptime claim.. no matter what people at wiki claim
0-160km/h 6.9s / 0-200km/h 14.2s / 1/4mile 12.7s
Ale, I don't choose those star-ratings. Nor does Heyhuub or Wads. These star
ratings are automatically generated according to FL Rank. You can learn about FL
Rank in "About" section. If it has one star it does not mean it is a bad
car.
I'm trying to line up a track test of the CLK63 Black at the moment..... full
report to follow if I can pull it off!
