welcome back everybody mark here today to talk about the acceleration facts
about the e60 m5 this is part two fact of the top 10 of a series that we're
going to be presenting to you here coming up in the next week or so
and this one I wanted to talk about some of the details around the acceleration
of the e60 m5 and one of the major facts that makes this car so special if you
refer in the comments section below you'll notice I have links to the two
videos that inspired this video as well as the others in this series you can
link to them and watch the whole video direct to get a compilation or a summary
of all of these facts in one but today's topic really is going to give a little
bit more information and expand on the acceleration details of the e60 m5 make
sure you stick around to the end because you're also going to be treated to what
is next in line as far as the series videos I'll be talking about that at the
very end of the video but for now let's get started and talk about the
acceleration of the e60 m5 so let's get down to brass tacks everybody we all
know that the e60 m5 accelerates very strong and we know that it has a very
very high top speed as you probably saw in my last video but today's
acceleration numbers how do you quantify that what does it really boil down to
what are the numbers and so today I'm gonna talk about how to get started zero
to sixty times these cars are not necessarily drag cars but they do have a
launch control feature which is enabled to allow you to accelerate quicker now
just a quick touch on that the u.s. cars Canadian cars have a launch control that
launches preset tube at 1500 rpm the rest of world cars like Europe and such
will rev up to 4,000 rpm before they drop the clutch obviously this has an
immediate impact on the acceleration times yes the Euro cars have slightly
quicker acceleration times out of the hole but as far as the power and the
performance of the car it is more or less the same between the Canadian US
cars and the rest of world cars so 0-60 times some might dispute the times I'm
going to spill with you but what I'm gonna talk about are
the actual times of the e60 m5 I'm gonna give you some facts some numbers and I'm
gonna compare it with two supercars and another one of its rivals back in the
day the Mercedes AMG e 63 so let's compare the e 62 other cars of similar
vintage we're gonna compare this to the Porsche 997 twin-turbo we always know
that the 911 turbos have it in the bag for acceleration they're phenomenally
quick and that hasn't changed so you know that's a big rival I'm also going
to compare to the Lamborghini Gallardo which I haven't right next to me here
which is also a very quick car supercar nonetheless and I'm going to compare
numbers with the e63 AMG Mercedes so let's talk about quarter-mile time 0 to
60 time and then we're also gonna make reference to the 0 to 100 km/h time and
the 0 to 200 km/h time for all four of those vehicles and then it should start
to paint a picture for you how this car ranks up with some of the world's best
supercars and high-end luxury cars in its era of course today there's cars
that will do things a little bit quicker a little bit better they have better
launch control they have dual clutch transmissions some of them have more
horsepower they will all add up to things that will edge the a 60 m5 but
it's funny funny enough because even with all that technology the e60 still
puts up a really really good front with the world's best not just the average
cars the world's best cars so anyway let's get started let's talk about the
zero to sixty time so the fastest 0-60 time of these four cars is the Porsche
911 Turbo should be of no surprise 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds let's compare
that to the slowest of the bunch of the e60 m5 which is 4.2 seconds followed
very very closely by 4.1 seconds in the AMG Mercedes
now the Lamborghini Gallardo 0 to 60 time is three point eight seconds
putting that more or less smack dab in the middle so on the zero to sixty
launch times the e60 m5 is the slowest out of the hole partially because of the
poor launch control capability of the car also because of its sheer
and size of 4,000 pounds plus not quite as quick out of the hole as some of the
best but let's talk about the 0 to 100 kilometers an hour time so that's going
to be a very close representation of the 0 to 60 miles per hour because 0 to 62
miles per hour is actually 100 kilometers per hour so let's look at
those numbers so again the slowest out of the hole no surprise because it's a
very close number to the 0 to 60 is 4.4 seconds for the e60 m5 4.3 seconds for
the AMG Mercedes 4 seconds flat for the Lamborghini Guyardo with the 5 liter
engine in eager transmission and 3.5 seconds for the Porsche 911 Turbo the
997 Turbo Edition now let's talk about the 0 to 200 km/h now this is going to
tell you a little bit different picture here the 0-200 km/h time on the slowest
car happens to be the now is no longer the e60 it is the AMG e63 car that has a
0 to 200 kilometer per hour time of 14 point two seconds followed next in line
by the e60 m5 at 13.5 seconds and again for further further followed by the
Lamborghini Guyardo at 13 seconds flat the quickest of the bunch is of no
surprise the 911 turbo at eleven point nine seconds puts it about 1 and a half
seconds quicker to 200 km/h than the e 60 but that should be of no surprise
these cars are always compared with the the GTR and the 911 turbos have always
been known for their brisk acceleration they're very fast out of the hole and it
should be a again no surprise that this one is the quickest of this bunch again
followed by the Lamborghini at half a second that's a pretty close margin when
you consider you know an e 60 with a 5 liter v10 the Lamborghini Guyardo with a
5 liter v10 and they pull in within a half a second of each other up to 200
kilometers an hour now here's a little fun fact for you
do you realize the e60 m5 is the only car that will actually top out over 200
miles per hour while all of these cars are shy of that anywhere from a
hundred ninety to a hundred to a hundred ninety nine miles per hour
puts the e60 m5 at the top of this game and therefore these cars are really all
about the top speed and stretching its long legs but as you can see at the top
end as you get closer to the higher speeds the e60 m5 starts to make ground
on these other cars so let's talk about the quarter mile times everybody likes
to talk about quarter mile times so should we have no surprise the quickest
car and the quarter mile time happens to be the Porsche 911 Turbo at eleven point
six seconds at about a hundred and twenty-four miles per hour makes it
extremely quick out of the hole that's why it makes it up quickly on the
quarter mile as well and it has a relatively high trap speed so the 911
turbo is of no surprise a very very fast accelerating car now what's interesting
is the next car in terms of time is twelve point six seconds which is a
perfect match between the e60 m5 and the AMG Mercedes the difference between
these two though is the ultimate trap speed no well they actually have the
same quarter-mile time the BMW e60 is actually gaining speed and it has a trap
speed of 120 miles per hour versus the AMG's 116 miles per hour so it's an
obvious indication that the AMG is slightly quicker out of the hole but it
does not take very long for the e60 to start pulling ground and leaving the Ian
the e63 AMG car for dead not just in quarter-mile time but as well in top
speed and that puts us - the Lamborghini Guyardo smack dab in the middle again at
about eleven point nine seconds on the quarter mile at right at a hundred and
twenty miles per hour so it's got the same trap speed as the e60 m5 but the
Lambo gets there just a hair quicker that being said that sort of the
crossover point where the e60 starts to make ground on the Lamborghini Guyardo
it kind of an interesting fact that's sort of that crossover point where the
e60 may start to slowly pull on the Lamborghini because we know that the
Guyardo does not exceed 200 miles per hour and we know with the governor
remove moved on the e60 m5 that it definitely
will in fact pull past 200 miles per hour making the e60 m5 the fastest top
speed car in this group not necessarily out of the hole but certainly top end
wise so everybody I hope you enjoyed the video shed some light on this for you
and talked about some of the acceleration factors why the car is a
little slower out of the hole how you can make things a little quicker by
using launch control and I you know I definitely thought I'd compare it with
some of the world's best cars in the same era now make sure you stick around
everybody because my next video will be about oil consumption because that's
another hot topic on the e60 m5 and like I said I'll be talking about why this
happens and what sort of oil consumption numbers you can expect with an e60 m5 so
make sure you come back in the next video everybody and as well I really
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