Mercedes up's the diesel war!

[Greg Roles]

Geezus!

http://autospeed.com/cms/A_110964/article.html

2.14 litre 150kw and 500nm twin turbo diesel beastie!

Hope the rumoured twin turbo TDI chases these guys!

[gregozedobe]

Pretty impressive torque figures, but I don't think I'd like to own one (and be paying for repairs) of the twin turbo setup when it was 10 years old and had 240,000Km on the clock. (but I am a bit conservative with new technology) :)

[motk]

Pretty impressive torque figures, but I don't think I'd like to own one (and be paying for repairs) of the twin turbo setup when it was 10 years old and had 240,000Km on the clock. (but I am a bit conservative with new technology) :)

Your basic Mercedes owner with a rolling novated lease probably doesn't care too much :)

That said, it'd probably be pretty reliable. MB engines tend to be overengineered.

[Greg Roles]

Five f@#$ing hundred newtons and you are quibbling over long term repair bills? Slap yourself Greggo!! Where do I get one???

My FPV GT had 520nm, and was a blast in an 1800kg car!

GEZUS!:eek:

[Pumpe-Düse]

Five f@#$ing hundred newtons and you are quibbling over long term repair bills? Slap yourself Greggo!! Where do I get one???

My FPV GT had 520nm, and was a blast in an 1800kg car!

GEZUS!:eek:

Even with all that torque, the Mercedes is still pretty slow. 7.0 sec 0-100km/h. Yay for 500Nm but unable to beat your average BA Falcon taxi. Which costs less to run (LPG). Ouch.

Give me the FPV GT's 520Nm any day. :D

[Transporter]

Even with all that torque, the Mercedes is still pretty slow. 7.0 sec 0-100km/h. Yay for 500Nm but unable to beat your average BA Falcon taxi. Which costs less to run (LPG). Ouch.

Give me the FPV GT's 520Nm any day. :D

Don't speek before you drive it.
Give me MB any day before Ford.
What is Falcon FPV GT? :duh:

[Greg Roles]

A 5.4L twin cam V8 Ford that whilst a whole lot of blokey fun, pales in quality compared to a south african assembled Golf in my opinion. I used to average 17L/100k too!! The car i traded on the Golf, and so glad I did now given the price of fuel and fall in price of thirsty cars.

All I miss is the sound.

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/12/2008_0227Image0005-2.jpg

[benough]

See the dynograph?

The torque curve drops like a lead ballon, no thanks!

[Oneofthegreats]

I think some of you may have looked past the fact that this is only 2.14L

That's an amazing effort considering only a couple of year's ago BMW's 3.0L 6 cyl. was making that!

[GoLfMan]

thats huge numbers from a relatively small capacity diesel....

some of you fellas need to think before shooting something down like that!

[linds]

damn, the amount of technology in that is astonishing, however I'm wary of the repairs when something does eventually break, despite MB's heavy engineering and testing...