Originally Posted by NeverEnough
Road Track lists the M5 and M6 V10 cars as having Identical times. 0-60 in 4.1 and 1/4 mile in 12.4, so it would seem that Chi-Town would be able to take them both. I didn't think they were a full second faster 0-60. The SRT-6 has been tested to be the 4.7-4.8 second range 0-60. So they are about .5 seconds faster in both areas. That's not a lot to make up. I think there will soon be a few SRT-6s capable of killing anything BMW car throw at it...
OK, 4.1 vs 4.8 0-60 = 7/10ths, sorry (Car and Driver put the SRT6 at 5.1, hence my numbers). But the 1/4 mile is a full 9/10ths slower in the SRT6 (13.3 vs 12.4 for the M5) and it gets worse from there:
0-100: SRT6 - 12.4, M5 - 9.5
0-120: SRT6 - 19.0, M5 - 13.3
SRT6 info from
http://www.caranddriver.com/roadtest...t-6-page4.html
M5/M6 info from
http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/d...data_panel.pdf
Apparently the M5 with the full manual gearbox is noticeably slower than the SMG variant, showing 0-60 and 1/4 mile on par with the SRT6.