Your "Professional" Mercedes driving instructor...

[jtoomasson at yahoo.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

Looks to me like Mercedes is throwing the gauntlet down with BMW!  (and
delivered a solid uppercut  :)

JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason" <jason@scirocco.org>
To: "Neal Tovsen" <nealtovsen@yahoo.com>; <vwautox@yahoogroups.com>;
"Scirocco-L" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: Your "Professional" Mercedes driving instructor...


> At 09:40 AM 5/22/2003, Neal Tovsen wrote:
> >A couple weeks ago, my autocross region was asked if
> >any of us would like to be driving instrctors for an
> >event put on by the AMG performance car division of
> >Mercedes. They even offered to give us a hotel room
> >and pay us! I got to drive all the different AMG
> >Mercedes, but I spent most of my time running around
> >the Daytona speedway in one of these:
> >
> >http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=19&article_id=1844
> >
> >(BTW, according to the information I was given, the
> >car has about 30 more horsepower for 2004)
>
> That would be the twin-turbo V12 SL600.  Mercedes is outta control with
the
> power!  The old normally aspirated 389hp 48-valve V12 was fast as
> shit.  This is just ridiculous! :)
>
> SL 600:
>          5.5L Twin-Turbo 36V V12
>          493 horsepower
>          590 pound-feet of torque @ 1800rpm (!!!)
>          Mfr Claim:  0-60 in 4.7s
>
> SL55 AMG:
>          5.5L Supercharged 24V V8
>          493 horsepower also
>          516 pound-feet of torque
>          Mfr Claim:  0-60 in 4.7s
>
> (The AMG gets to 60 in the same time despite the torque defecit by wearing
> a numerically higher final drive ratio).  And that's not a typo, they both
> have the same peak HP output.
>
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=19&article_id=6571&page_number=1
>
> Insane, no?
> Jason
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