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This could be just a tad over the top, automotively speaking ('09 Benz SL65 AMG)
DirectorBlue ^ | Sunday, July 13, 2008

Posted on 07/13/2008 4:01:31 PM PDT by yankeedame

Sunday, July 13, 2008

This could be just a tad over the top, automotively speaking


C&D has official photos and stats on the '09 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG "Black Series" -- a tricked out version of the already ludicrously fast SL65 AMG.

The new series claims 661 horsepower. Top speed is electronically limited to around 199 mph.

Torque output is unchanged at 738 pound-feet, although Mercedes says the engine is detuned from 885, likely to keep the heavy-duty five-speed automatic transmission alive. The Black Series’ transmission, however, adds a fourth transmission setting, M2 manual mode, which shifts a claimed 25 percent quicker than M1 mode. As before, there are also Comfort and Sport settings for the automatic modes.

...There’s also a new intercooler that AMG says reduces intake charge temperatures by 30 percent, and an upgraded cooling system to keep the engine from melting itself... AMG expects the car to cover the 0-to-62-mph sprint in 3.9 seconds, although we’ve gotten 3.8 out of an SL65...

Expected sticker price? If you have to ask...


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To: Army Air Corps

If I had a couple million to spend on a car I would get either a Bugatti or a Koenigsegg (probably the Bugatti).


21 posted on 07/13/2008 5:19:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: CaliGangsta
Automatic transmission??? WTF??

These new F1-inspired, dual clutch gearboxes are nothing like the slushboxes of the past.

22 posted on 07/13/2008 5:21:21 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: wagglebee

The Veyron is sublime, isn’t it? The car is a work of art. There is *something* about it that edges it over the Koenigsegg (which is a fine car and I wish that I could drive someday).


23 posted on 07/13/2008 5:21:41 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

I love Bugatti’s website where you can play with the different color combinations.


24 posted on 07/13/2008 5:25:16 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

A Mosler would also be fun to take around on a track...


25 posted on 07/13/2008 5:29:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: yankeedame

It makes a nice station csr..dontcha think?


26 posted on 07/13/2008 5:32:25 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: Army Air Corps; dalereed; ken21; xmission
Dunno. That Benzo looks pretty cool-guy. It'd probably give this guy a run for the money (mouse over image): click me

That's a nice and very fine Sunday Go-To-Meetin' ride though. One could also go for one of those Lamboughini Diablo's, Dauer EB110, or even one of those spiffy McLaren F1's for that casual over the hill and to Grandma's we go just as nicely (and in style too I may well add).

That new 'Vette ZR1 engine looks like its got something going for it. Probably would give a Callaway Sledgehammer 'Vette some competition, eh? They were talkin' 'bout the ZR1 earlier on this threadI fail to see why second-best oneself though.

When this is ALL one really needs in a "street legal" automobile plus it would be amusing for a little while. Well, o.k. for a LOT of while 8>)

But if I had druthers, which I can't afford to have, nothing beats this for some seriously getting to work on time, or making the door opening for Black Thursday in November (when seconds matter). That thud you're hearing as you pull up in that car is not the sound of hundereds of panties collectively hitting the pavement, but that many female hads impacting the ground as they fall in a collective swoon.

I don't know what it is about that car, perhaps the vanity mirror on the passenger visor, the stylish headlights, or fancy two-tone rims, perhaps its just plain sumpin', dunno. But it definitely has something goin' for it in the chick department. Maybe its that special hood decal that makes the car really fast. Dunno.

27 posted on 07/13/2008 6:38:33 PM PDT by raygun
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