Paul
Active Member
As you will hopefully of noticed I current have at my disposal a E200 Kompressor 
, well in the name of science and because you lot like a bit of fun, Greg and I deceided to risk live and limb and do some performance testing.
This was under a strictly controlled enviroment (Local By-pass) and with the latest timing equipment available to Greg (His Nokia phone).
All this was done at great cost (bl**dy lot of petrol) to us both, but we didnt mind doing it for your benefit, we're good like that.
The test track (By-pass) was a mixture of uphill and downhill gradients with a few level runs thrown in aswell.
After flooring the accelerator at 20mph we started the timing equipment (Thanks Nokia) once the car had reached 30mph. We then stopped the watch (phone) at 70mph.
Both Gregs car (C200) and the E200 Kompressor averaged out at between 9.3 & 9.4 seconds.
This calulation was established using both our fingers and a few of Gregs toes.
What we did notice though was how much a "slight" gradient made, there was around a 3.5 second difference and of course you really could feel the gentle slope sapping the performance.
The E class it self was a smooth accelerator but felt just so under powered when more than just a very quick short squirt was needed.
The alloys look like they have been sprayed with Halfords bright silver paint and the centres actually resemble steel wheels, very cheap looking.
We both generally gave the interior a thumbs down although we did like a few touches.
The exterior was a thumbs up except the wheels.
The final conclusion was that neither of us would give up our current cars to have them replaced by a E200k.
The mileage on this "Test car" is 1300miles, although the tyres have around 2000miles of wear . Well it would of been rude not to test the effects of turning the traction control off.
As a sub note I must point out that all this was done for YOUR benefits and Greg and I never enjoyed one little bit of our many runs in the cars .
, well in the name of science and because you lot like a bit of fun, Greg and I deceided to risk live and limb and do some performance testing. This was under a strictly controlled enviroment (Local By-pass) and with the latest timing equipment available to Greg (His Nokia phone).
All this was done at great cost (bl**dy lot of petrol) to us both, but we didnt mind doing it for your benefit, we're good like that.
The test track (By-pass) was a mixture of uphill and downhill gradients with a few level runs thrown in aswell.
After flooring the accelerator at 20mph we started the timing equipment (Thanks Nokia) once the car had reached 30mph. We then stopped the watch (phone) at 70mph.
Both Gregs car (C200) and the E200 Kompressor averaged out at between 9.3 & 9.4 seconds.
This calulation was established using both our fingers and a few of Gregs toes.
What we did notice though was how much a "slight" gradient made, there was around a 3.5 second difference and of course you really could feel the gentle slope sapping the performance.
The E class it self was a smooth accelerator but felt just so under powered when more than just a very quick short squirt was needed.
The alloys look like they have been sprayed with Halfords bright silver paint and the centres actually resemble steel wheels, very cheap looking.
We both generally gave the interior a thumbs down although we did like a few touches.
The exterior was a thumbs up except the wheels.
The final conclusion was that neither of us would give up our current cars to have them replaced by a E200k.
The mileage on this "Test car" is 1300miles, although the tyres have around 2000miles of wear
. Well it would of been rude not to test the effects of turning the traction control off.As a sub note I must point out that all this was done for YOUR benefits and Greg and I never enjoyed one little bit of our many runs in the cars
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