Porsche 0-60 Question!!??
 

Does ANYONE know what the 0-60 time is on a automatic 1999 or 2000 Porsche Carrera hardtop?? Please anyone with insight, I have looked all over the internet and not been able to find the times for the automatic version of the car.

RE: Porsche 0-60 Question!!??
 

That would be an early model 996, right? With an automatic - Tiptronic? And by hardtop you mean just the normal coupe, not the covertible with its hardtop bolted on, right?

I have a later model 996 (320 HP) with the 5-speed Tiptronic. Its recorded a 1/4 mile in 13.48 at around 105 at the strip. That corresponds to a 0-60 time of around 5 seconds. That said, the car feels more like 0-60 in 5.5 seconds, and like it then makes it up at the top (it really accelerates well from 40 on up). A G-Tech acceleration logger gets it at 5.25 but these are accerate only within about .33 second one way or the other.

Regardless, Porsche claims 0-62 mph (i.e., 100 km/hr) in 5.2 seconds, and 0-100 mph in 12.0 seconds, for the later 996 lTiptronic like mine (in the owner's manual), and their claims are usually reasonable and do-able by the average driver. I don't think the HP difference between earlier and later 996s is significant. I'd say 0-60 is somewhere between 5.0 and 5.5 seconds.

RE: Porsche 0-60 Question!!??
 

Yes, I mean the early model 996 coupe. I am not sure if this car comes with tiptronic though. I thought that was started in the later models of the 996.

RE: Porsche 0-60 Question!!??
 

that is what I am taling about. I'm pretty certain that if it has an automatic, it's what the factory calls the "Tiptronic" thy've had that name for about 20 years or more. And I was talking about the '99 or 00 model 996. I think it had a 3.4 versus 3.6 in the later 996, but it would not make much of difference and I allowed for that in my answer.

Again, 5.0- 5.5 second range, with my expectation being closer to 5.5 secs.