0-100 KMH Figures

[leasaunce]

are you guys doing 0-100 when the speedo reads 100kph or by gps? cause the speedo is 10% +/- .

[RhysQ]

Like to see a stock Polo GTI and a stock VR6 battle it out, could be close... now if only there was such thing as a stock Polo GTI.

i would say the VR6 would win against a stock Polo GTI, but not against a chipped one. not sure of 0-100 for them but i'd imagine a 2.8L 6cyl in a similar size car will knock a 1.8T 4cyl.

[RhysQ]

are you guys doing 0-100 when the speedo reads 100kph or by gps? cause the speedo is 10% +/- .

it CAN be up to 10% +/-. with mine, as mentioned before, i've got 17' wheels and 40 profile tyres which pulls it back into line a bit more. for me, i call 100km/h at 102.

[VW GTI]

it CAN be up to 10% +/-. with mine, as mentioned before, i've got 17' wheels and 40 profile tyres which pulls it back into line a bit more. for me, i call 100km/h at 102.

Rhys: I've had mine tested on a dyno (17s with 40 profile) and when the speedo said 100 I was doing 92. Still 8% out.

[RhysQ]

Rhys: I've had mine tested on a dyno (17s with 40 profile) and when the speedo said 100 I was doing 92. Still 8% out.

yeah i haven't tested it on a dyno but i have tested on the motorway next to a friends work car (ex-police vehicle). i was doing spot on 100 (cuise control set and watching it) when he was doing 97-98. unless his is way out as well, mine seems to be pretty good. will have to test it next dyno day to find out for sure.

i just assumed mine was more in-line because of the wheels/tyres.

[gareth_oau]

and dont forget that the difference between new and worn tyres can add 3kph to the error range

[VW GTI]

yeah i haven't tested it on a dyno but i have tested on the motorway next to a friends work car (ex-police vehicle). i was doing spot on 100 (cuise control set and watching it) when he was doing 97-98. unless his is way out as well, mine seems to be pretty good. will have to test it next dyno day to find out for sure.

i just assumed mine was more in-line because of the wheels/tyres.

Yeah, the slightly bigger rolling diameter does improve it, but not 10% unfortunately.

[mozzzy_2000]

I'd have to say that my speedo seems to be pretty spot on. Everytime I have driven through one of those roadside public speed displays, on cruise it seems pretty accurate probably within 2-3Kph. I would imagine the speed capturing device would be pretty accurate itself.

[Oneofthegreats]

I'll start off with,

this isn't a dig at anyone at all I'm not jumping on any band wagon to gang up on anyone, but I'm reading through another "world beating Polo gti" thread & finding the same stuff over & over.

This is my 25cent's

The OP just wanted to the 0-100 stock times & approx tuned times, then.....

Everyone bag's out on old car's & the same with new car's & then the so-called fact's & figures come out to prove each other wrong.

Then the magical calculation's come out.

There are plenty of car's out there that look fast on paper, but in real life condition's, there as slow as a XD Falcon Panelvan on LPG!

For starter's. If a Stock polo gti can go 7.2 to 100? Wow, that's as fast as a stock Golf GTI Manual. The DSG GTI is 6.9-100 as quoted, tested & proved by several mag's.

I've never seen a polo gti keep up with a golf gti. not standard anyway.

Back onto some of these figures.

For starter's, I have never seen any accurate "my mate sat in the passenger seat & timed me with a dirty old casio watch, stop watch" & I would never believe them anyway.

Now about the mk2 crap aero dynamic's.
The Mk1 was shaped like a block of concrete. No doubting that, but the mk2 was leap's & bound's more efficient than a mk1 by nearly 20% making the mk2 as aerodynamic as a current polo gti.

Fact's.

Mk2 drag coefficient 0.34
Polo gti drag coefficient 0.32!

& for a laugh a mk1 is 0.42! haha

Just cause a car is old, doesn't necessarily mean it's lost power & I have proven that over & over with my car's. In fact with a tired old engine (300+K) & a tune my car still made better power than factory!

Carl's mk2 isn't exactly slow either being able to keep up with Neil's modded GTI & Tim's modded VR6 & my own now smashed lighty modded mk1, which could stay in front of tuned polo gti's!

I know this as a fact, cause I was there & right with them both in either of my mk1's at different times!

So a stock polo makes 110kw & weigh's how much loaded?
A mk2 makes 102kw & should weigh remarkably less even loaded!

So with a polo weighing at least 200+kg's heavier & with only 8 kw's more, I don't need any calculator's to work out which is going to win.

Even if the polo had another 50-60kw from some mods, it's still pushing the extra 200+kg's!

Also on the weighing topic, I think if any of you get a chance, go down to the local weigh bridge & weigh your car's. You will be totally suprised by how much they really do weigh!

I was suprised to find an alleged 830kg car weigh in at a shade over a ton with half a tank of fuel & me in it & I was only 74kg's then.


Now if I tell the same old story of my mk1's & my stock old crappy VN 5L beating a couple tuned polo gti's, you'd all laugh & get out the figures to work it out!

But what I can't figure out is how a stock polo gti can walk all over, say a high 13 sec car!



Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the polo is a slow car, as they can be very enjoyable, but they aren't as fast as the owner's make out. I know, I drive them all the time.

Also the polo isn't the only car out there that cop's this, as I'm also not impressed with the R32 performances either.

[madglf3]

...not to upset anyone driving a +10 year old golf, which body is probably gonna pull away from its chasis soon

Why does the Polo forum deliver weekly servings of laughs with threads so similar to previous ones? Not everything is about drag racing, why does everyone care so much about numbers??

How much of the time is everyone here racing someone else to care that much about all of this?