8.7 sounds about right if you nail the getaway and change up at the right time, and whatever you do DON'T CHANGE INTO THIRD - I managed 9-10 on a personal 0-60 run (time is very vague as I was using the play counter on my CD player), however this was in the wet and the front wheels didn't get traction til about 20-30mph. I'd say my time was a tad higher than normal - I'm pretty sure I didn't start the car at the exact time I skipped to the next track (slightly after in all honesty), and as I said, the amount of wheelspin I had was less than ideal. I know for a fact the speedo in my car is accurate - it was reading 124 the other day on the M74 when the acceleration stopped - so there's no question of it not being 60mph I hit. The 8v will easily do it in less than 10 seconds standard, and with a decent driver can probably break 9. It'll do it without falling apart aswell, unlike those oh so new Mk2's you see knocking about (surely if Mk2 owners invade the mk 3 forum to give abuse, we can give abuse back yeah?).
Which honestly makes me wonder where the hell this notion that the 8v is a slow car came from. Anything under 9 seconds is pretty fast (sub 7 is really fast imo), and keep the motor spinning between 3000 and 6000 and you can really make some progress. It's only slow if you try and floor it when you're in completely the wrong gear for the situation (like trying to go uphill from 45mph in 5th), knock it down a gear or two and you're presented with some pretty solid urge. On a country road it's a veritable overtaking machine, which can never ever be said of a slow car (and I know I spent 4 years trying to overtake everything in sight in one - I like the fact that the 8v doesn't need a 4 car length run up to slingshot past, just drop it to 3rd or even 2nd and blast past.
edit// By the way can we be clear about one thing? It's a 0-60 time, not a bloody 0-62. That's for Europeans. And last time I looked we weren't in a European super-state just yet.
