Re: Ronin (and other good driving movies)

["Romeo Shayne Pavlic'" <bcpi@arias.net>]

I am also into MB as well as Audi.  I have two old one myself.  The
particluar motor was rated at 250 and 285 HP depending on the country you
bought it in with the torque around 360 and 390 depending on the country. 
These number my friends are considered VERY conservative.  Real world
numbers are thought to be more around the lines of 300 hp and a tick above
400 torque.  I have an uncle who drove one and he said above 70 the car was
as fast as a Shelby Cobra, a car he has also driven.

They are true beasts.

Even my 4.5 liter motor in my MB has enough energy to smoke the tires when I
decide to do it.


Shayne.
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>From: Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>
>To: only5kgt@uswest.net
>Cc: Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>, Quattro List <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
>Subject: Re: Ronin (and other good driving movies)
>Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999, 17:26
>

>Do you by any chance know how many HP that massive V8 Mercedes puts out?
>Sounds like their version of a Chevelle 454 or a Hemi Cuda...
> Fun
>L8R
>
> Todd Phenneger
> 1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
> 1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
> 1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
> 1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
>   *****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!
>
>On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 only5kgt@uswest.net wrote:
>
>> BTW, that "old Mercedes" was, as I first suspected, a 6.9! 417 cu in of SOHC
>> German V8! That reverse burnout where we are first introduced to this beast
>> on-screen is no special effect. Look at what Frankenheimer managed to
>> obliterate: the three big guns of German sedans- M5, S8, and 6.9.
>> I liked this symmetry and wondered if it was intentional. Each was the fastest
>> sedan available when new...
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>> 
>