Yo all you mk2 8v owners, at least you all have the satisfaction that your cars will beat a mk3 8v to 60, even if it is by a mere 0.5 second.
I don?t know where you are getting your figures from but I can?t see how they are correct, so far you?ve only been able to quote the drivers manual which I admit lists 0-60 of 10.0 seconds. However I know for a fact the 8v is quicker than that, all other VW literature I?ve come across lists the 0-60 time as 8.3 seconds
You only need to do a few searches on the net to see what you come up with?.
http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/articles/0-60times.htmlhttp://www.veedubz.co.za/tech/vwhist.htmNote the 16v has 1.55% more torque and 15.92% more power based on the weight ratio, hardly a massive difference.
Even if you ignore gearing and torque and just use power, let's say the 16v does 0-60 in 7.9 seconds, due to 8v giving away 15.92% in power would you not expect the 8v to be at worst 15.92 slower, which would give us a time of 9.2 seconds. This is a very basic calculation I know, however it indicates that the time of 10.0 seconds quoted in the manual is wrong.
I have no argument with the fact that the 16v is faster, of course it is, however the 8v is not as slow as you keep trying to make out?.
