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Brabus Will Unleash The Black Baron

ana — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:08:07 +0000

Say hello to the new Black Baron E V12 from Brabus. With E-Class pedigree, this baby runs with a twin turbo, 6.3-liter V12 with 800 hp and an electronically-limited 811 lb-ft, a ram-air system and a tuned ECU. I said “limited” because the engine can produce about 1000lb-ft.

Brabus has on the list of improvements an adjustable suspension and bigger brakes and tires. To make the car run as fast as 217 mph, also electronically-limited, some tweaks were made to the body at the expense of the sexiness.

The car will also have another feature limited: the number. Only 10 will be made, each costing about 600.000 euros. Who said the world is in crysis?

The new generation of SLK will have a diesel flavor

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:51:44 +0000

For those sitting at home and wondering what will is Mercedes up to these days, have no fear, ‘for I am here. It seems that they will be hooking up the new SLK with a diesel engine. The German car maker won’t make a special-designed engine, instead they will use the 2.2-liter "BlueEfficiency" 4-cylinder twin-turbo diesel that is currently under the hood of the C250 sedan.

A few tweaks will be made to make the car more environmental friendly, like particulate filter and rail injection. We will see if these modifications will make the new diesel SLK fit for the United States’ market, where all the hypocrites and trend-goers think that a car killed the ozone layer.

Hamann SLR Volcano Official Details

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:25:50 +0000

Tuner fans meet the new Mercedes McLaren SLR, the Hamann Volcano. It wasn’t enough that the stock model was powerful enough, the people at Hamann decided that all that wasn’t enough. We now have under this baby’s hood 700 hp and 612 lb.-ft. of torque – an increase of 74 hp and 37 lb.-ft., respectively. But that is not all, a new water pump will cool things off when it will all get too hot. This supercar goes from 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds and the top speed is now 9 mph higher, like the speed we got until now wasn’t enough and also useless for the road.

There will also be some carbon fiber to make out the wings and the skirts and also a new hood, diffuser and front spoiler, all to keep these running smooth and cut the air like a hot knife through butter. Me, for one, I am not impressed by these kinds of fast cars, but others are and have the resources to buy them and places to drive them.