Ok so when I was looking at my current car I had read up about it and one of the things I noticed was that Subaru claimed that the 2007 Liberty GT-B Tuned by STI's 2.5 litre turbo could do 0-100km/hr in 6 seconds flat.
Well mine's the auto version and I didn't think it would quite hit what Subaru claimed, and tonight was the first real time I tested it out. There's a stretch of road near my place which has a 100km/hr speed limit so I thought best place to test it was there as I don't speed normally, don't want to lose my licence as I can't drive my baby!! So it's completely dead on this stretch of road, I figure it's safe enough to come to a complete stop.
I brought a velcro strap and strapped my phone to my steering wheel with the video mode recording facing the speedo (this was all before I started driving). The road was pretty much flat, so no uphill or downhill slope. I was at a complete stop, no brake boosting it was just let go of LFB, accelerator to the floor.
I got home and uploaded the video, tried to pinpoint the exact time I put my foot on the accelerator until the speedo hit 100.
I gotta say it's pretty much on the money, and for an auto I think that's pretty awesome! Allowing for a little deviation, its fair to say it was pretty much 6-6.1 seconds.
Not sure if anyone else has tested this but it was really interested so thought I'd share haha.
Imagine the grin I had when I walked through the door at home!