Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "AutoTopNL" channel.

  1. Wasnt that many years ago that 0-200 this fast was supercar performance. Very nice.
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  2. I realise the opportunity doesnt come around often, but I just want to say how great it is to see a car taken to its TRUE top speed for once. Love seeing the meter sitting around and bouncing between 313-314 kmh.
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  3. They should remove the limiter. Yeah, 311 indicated might be "fast enough" but they should let it stretch out.
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  4. Yeah those Mercedes V12 cargospeciale aint no joke... of course, compared to a multipla SV, it was dead meat.
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  5. Its true. Even worse because almost every digital speedo out there updates so damn slowly! From one number to the next can be a 30kmh gap when accelerating!
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  6. 8.83s 100-200 for the ones that are wondering.
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  7. The 100-200 time seems to line up pretty well with 210hp if you ask me, I dont think its missing much or any power to speak of. Its AWD after all, robbing a bit of power.
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  8.  @t1n638  Fuel comsumption has very little to do with hp/l max power of an engine.
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  9. Has to be one of the most gearing-gap top speed limited cars I ever heard of.
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  10. Well weight doesnt affect top speed much, but yeah. Its the V12 diesel thats the cool part.
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  11. 100-200km/h in 10.61 seconds for the ones that are interested.
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  12. Never driven one, but I seriously think Leon Cupra of this generation seem the car to get if you are in europe and want a car that can do most everything well, for not too much money. VAG quality issues aside, its hard to beat that price/performance ratio. Most people and families fit just fine in a hatchback of that size as well. Civic typer R has got to be quite a bit more money? Dont think a renault Megane can get you the tuning potential the VW lump has.
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  13. I mean, you are right, but a <10 sec 1/4 mile has been possible with normal, factory stock 1000cc sportsbike for 35 (yes, 35) years. So its not any faster in that regard compared to others.
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  14. Yeah, too bad about the enourmous step between 5th and 6th though. It really should have been 7th with that ratio.
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  15.  Gustav Gamer  Doubt they are that incompetent over at ford regarding the stability, more than likely there just isnt a good 7 speed gearbox to buy that fits for a reasonable price. And they needed that super high ratio for EPA compliance or some such.
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  16. Cool car, and pretty quick! Loses a lot of time 100 -200 relative to its power/weight by that narrow powerband though.
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  17. I guess its to give the owner a good feeling :)
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  18.  @BVZTIII  Contrary to popular opinion, a sports car has nothing to do with neither acceleration, top speed or horsepower figures. In short, a sports car is a 1,2 or if one wants to be charitable, max 2+2 seater car that is built to be as fun to drive as possible, foremost by being as light as possible. As you can see the cars I mentioned above fit it nicely. As you can also see, there is no mention of acceleration in this definition, and certainly no fixed numbers for anything except the number of seats. There are a lot of fast accelerating, high power cars and a lot of them have their own named and defined category without being sport cars. Muscle cars. Pony cars. Super sedans. GT cars. Hot hatches etc etc. Tesla Models S would be akin to something like a modern muscle car/super sedan category. Taycan more like super sedan/GT category. Cheers.
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  19.  @wiskymo9687  Diesel, gas, electric or fairy dust, doesnt matter, horsepower is always the same factor.
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  20.  @raiinydayz1889  Yes, I know about the AWD system. Still has more hardware to spin, which robs some power. Regarding torque, revs and power delivery, those factors are as good as irrelevant to the acceleration numbers. Only average power in between gearshifts count, and that number is often very closely correlated to the peak power number. In as good as every petrol powered car, shifting earlier, "using the torque", or power delivery rpm mattering at all, are sadly all just effectively long-lived myths that for some reason became popular, but have no basis in reality.
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  21. Honestly its a bit slow for a medium size 2wd sedan/coupe, dont know if its the aerodynamics or misplaced gearing for top speed or a combination that is the problem. I was hoping for 290 speedo or so, at least 275 real speed. Ah well, 265 real speed is good enough for most people. Maybe it could have done 275 with better gearing, doesnt look entirely impossible.
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  22.  @johnathandow5376  If it really is 823hp, it would easily do 350km/h with the right gearing.
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  23.  @babic12009  I kind of misread, I thought he was talking about this specific example when he said "this model", and that he had deduced so from something he saw in the video. My bad, I should have thought about it a bit more.
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  24.  @RS-xx8gz  Hes probably not lying, he just got taken for a ride by the tuning company, as so many others, and doesnt know better.
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  25. It will surely hit a rev limit, but if it didnt (via taller gearing), power to drag certainly would suggest 400 is quite possible.
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  26. Dont think they made their system for launching, at all. That makes an enormous difference, up to 2 seconds.
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  27.  @radostinangelov9193  215, but its not too bad.
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  28. Luckily that doesnt matter, since it isnt a sports car, and never was. Neither is the Porsche, btw. A miata, Boxster or lotus elise, those are sports cars.
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  29.  @Saif0412  Dont agree. Its got a bit less. Maybe more than 450, but for sure less than 500.
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  30.  @Roddy_Zeh  Sure it has, but its still a bit too slow for 500hp.
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  31.  @noevanesse  Look up definition of sleeper, no such thing as too much horsepower.
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  32. Nice car, but it honestly seems a bit slow for 600hp, at least at high speed. A bit over 500 perhaps? Edit: Just found it in the 100-200 document. 8.82 seconds. That is about the same as the M5 E60, with its 507hp. And its SMG isnt that fast compared to a manual. Seems like my guess of "a bit over 500" was just about bang on.
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  33. What? There is no rule you have to space gears like this, it depends entirely on what cogs you got in the box. And you gain a heck of a lot of usability at higher speed with more gears, for a relatively minimal weight gain on a street car.
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  34.  @hoedemakerbart  If they got the same aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance, it will be the same. Just as I said. It really comes down to quite simply physics, simple enough that everyone learns it in compulsary school. Now, the fact that most people forget what they learn in school is another matter, and I dont blame you, its perfectly normal. But thats the long and short of it, yes.
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  35.  @SvenTheSveed  Meh, front wheel spin isnt very dramatic if you ask me. Easily handled.
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  36. I am guessing its not BMW fans saying that, but the opposite: people looking to put any BMW down?
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  37. In another review they state Porsche themselves say they do nothing. If that is the case, your argument falls flat. And please stop citing racing, every manufacturer has a wind tunnel, its not rocket science...
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  38.  @andreacristoforetti2061  Hello. I understand, but you can also do a rough calculation yourself. A petrol engine uses about 0.3l fuel per horsepower and hour. A normal sized car such as a golf needs about 120hp to do 200kmh. 120x0.3 is 36 liter. Divide by 2 (since 200kmh) to get consumption per 100km, and we get 18l/100km steady speed. Plug in general drag and rolling resistance formula to correct for different speeds. Cheers.
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  39. I believe you have been had, man. Its fine preferring the E46. but what part of the E46 is made of aluminium.... that isnt (or composite) on an e92. I dont think there is any, rather its the opposite if anything as far as I know. I think you have fallen for some kind of myth.
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  40. Dont know if its that impressive with 276 km/h but yeah, its a nice car.
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  41. @MarcTrump Neither does the price though, to be fair.
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  42. Why would you?
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  43.  Jonas Jonaitis  I know, I own a similar car. :)
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  44.  @anderson-milan  I guess "not top speed pulls though" was what you were trying to say. Which is what I also said earlier, yes.
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  45.  @hoedemakerbart  No, and no. Neither of the things you wrote directly affect top speed. Not weight, not torque. What does is rolling resistance, aerodynamic drag, and power.
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  46.  @Morten54  Sorry for letting people (who stated something themselves) know it how really is, so they are better informed about something they presumably care about, since they commented. A sin in your eyes, I take it? If you ask me, the car hobby needs less baseless myths, not more.
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  47.  @MA-mp4ov  Eh sorry man, no lying. Its just physics and natural laws. No way around that fact, unless you have a nobel physics prize guaranteed and totally will change everything we humans know. Power is what accelerates a car, no ifs or buts about it. And power is measured in horsepower or kilowatts for cars. All other numbers by themselves are totally irrelevant for acceleration and yes, that includes torque.
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  48. Its normal as in factory stock.
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  49.  @dylanhall509  No it doesnt have that much effect. This hasnt got 500hp as tested.
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  50. Indeed, performance car numbers from a cheap-ish small estate with some reasonable tuning wasnt bad.
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