Well today I decided to measure my XF’s performance 0-60, 40-70 & 70-100 times, I did this using a road angle GPS set with an alert to chime in when I hit the relative speed to try to eliminate any variability.
All times were don with eth gearbox in S modes and for the 0-60 1st gear being selected, well what a shock!!, I measured a few times to even out minor discrepancies and here are the times:
0-60mph: best time 10.07s!!!! (6 runs each way from 10.07 - 10.78)
40-70mph: bst time 9.4s
70-100mph best time 13.07s
Jeez, by GPS may be a split second vs actual but 2.3 second off the claimed 0-60!!, I am gob smacked.
To clarify the car only had me in (12 stone), and was full of fuel (Shell diesel), no wheelspin, no traction flashing. I just came to a halt, selected 1st in S mode, off the footbrake and nailed it.
I know this wasn’t a scientific test but even so not breaking 10s (I even turned the aircon off to help). As I posted before I knew it felt slow but this really shocked me.
Has anyone or can anyone measure their car using a GPS to correlate the figures.
I emailed jaguar last week about a few issues and I’m awaiting for a reply, I’m glad I did this as I now have some ammunition.
All times were don with eth gearbox in S modes and for the 0-60 1st gear being selected, well what a shock!!, I measured a few times to even out minor discrepancies and here are the times:
0-60mph: best time 10.07s!!!! (6 runs each way from 10.07 - 10.78)
40-70mph: bst time 9.4s
70-100mph best time 13.07s
Jeez, by GPS may be a split second vs actual but 2.3 second off the claimed 0-60!!, I am gob smacked.
To clarify the car only had me in (12 stone), and was full of fuel (Shell diesel), no wheelspin, no traction flashing. I just came to a halt, selected 1st in S mode, off the footbrake and nailed it.
I know this wasn’t a scientific test but even so not breaking 10s (I even turned the aircon off to help). As I posted before I knew it felt slow but this really shocked me.
Has anyone or can anyone measure their car using a GPS to correlate the figures.
I emailed jaguar last week about a few issues and I’m awaiting for a reply, I’m glad I did this as I now have some ammunition.