Might be a good idea. Remember that Mercedes parts are very expensive, even parts that are not made by Mercedes. Our current shop prices here at Mercedes are USD $135 per hour and you can count on a transmission alone running 7 hours of work, running you $945 for labor alone. If you have any other questions, hit me up on my e-mail lanceshetrompf at hotmail dot com.
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As for the original question,
Wikipedia’s list of automotive superlatives seems to offer fairly convincing answers.
No. German manufacturers agreed some years ago to artificially limit all vehicles to a top speed of 155 mph (largely to placate the powerful green lobby in Germany). Since then, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche have all kinda stretched the rules a bit, but there is still no formal speed limit on the autobahn.
350kmh is the speed to which ZR rated tires (basically the closest thing you can put on the road to a racing slick) are approved for use.
I think at least an honourable mention should go to the Ariel Atom, according to howstuffworks.com:
It is truly an achievement to get a 0-60 time of 2.8s out of a car that costs a tiny fraction of anything that even come close to matching it. Due to it’s aerodynamics the top speed is pretty low comparatively but when you are talking about production cars top speed really isn’t that important, who cares if one car can do 250mph and another can ‘only’ do 230mph, neither of them are ever going to achieve that on the road, perhaps what is more important is brutal acceleration to make the car fun to drive.
I’ll go with the Bugatti also. 0-120 in just a tick over 7 seconds is all that impressive. Most cars have trouble getting to 60 in 7 seconds.
0-60 times are misleading, especially if you have a heavier car like the Bugatti that will smoke anything on the road from 60-120. Four turbo chargers and 1001 HP is no laughing matter.
I just checked and the Veyron does 0-62 in 2.5 seconds and 0-125 in 7.3.
The Veyron may win outright in terms or road-legal cars but it cannot be said to be a production car because only a set number are going to be made.
I’d dissagree with that since for all cars only a sertain numkber are ever built. If the number to be built was less than 20 (as Wiki used for their cutoff point) then it might be considered non-production. Just because Bugatti will only produce about 70 a year doesn’t mean anyone with the money can’t buy one.
I was under the impression that only a set number would ever be built, not a set number per year. According to Wiki Bugatti only intend to build 300 cars and this was announced at the launch. In my mind a car with a pre-defined number than will be made cannot be said to be a production car. Of course all cars only have a set number produced but this figure isn’t determined at launch but rather more likely determined by how well the vehicle is selling, if they still make money from the car they will keep making it, whereas Bugatti won’t produce any more after 300 regardless of demand.
Not entirely true.
Y is the new Z… http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=35