RE: Mercedes Trainees Create V8 B-class

[MetalFoot]

nonplussed said:

Garlick said:

Want.

Now.

Please?

[Peeved]

If the engine mounts are the same, I wonder if the transplant would work the other way?

SLS AMG CDI?

[robk84]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22HsB6hJ-A&fea...

[BBS-LM]

robk84 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22HsB6hJ-A&fea...

hahahah, love it, nice little sleeper car that is.

[R360]

robk84 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22HsB6hJ-A&fea...

Sounds lovely

[LuS1fer]

I wish manufacturers would make something like this but the PC brigade, I suppose, deem child carrier and powerful engine to be inappropriate.

Shame really.

[kambites]

Peeved said:

If the engine mounts are the same, I wonder if the transplant would work the other way?

SLS AMG CDI?

Well yes, but you'd have to convert it to front wheel drive.

[Oilchange]

Imagine, you would have a lower CO2 g/km thingy for the road tax level! Ingenious.

[Amizade]

I would have one !

[bern]

Considering our 2nd and 3rd year apprentices struggle to mill a block square that's impressive.

Good on 'em

[eliot]

Good work apart from the chav air filters.

[NoelWatson]

PaulMoor said:

Nice! Very silly, and must have been sooooo much fun to build.

(also, note to any British enginering companys... This is why we have a lack of young engineers in the UK. Companys in other countrys offer training and make it seem like a cool job, but in the UK you just blaim the schools and uni's for giving people a genral education)

And they also pay 14p over here

[635csi]

I have been driving around in a new B class for the last few days.
I handed the SL 55 into mercedes for some work (turn off a warning light £700).
Then the snow came so I was stuck with the B for the weekend, and I must say that this was a very good thing. It was great in the ice and snow, had a £50 quid excess on the insurance and wasn't mine, which made it the ideal " big freeze" car in my book.
So there somebody has said something nice about a B class on Piston Heads, think i'll keep the V8 in the SL though, and my god that small merc diesel is a noisy bag of nails.

[Cotty]

BBS-LM said:

robk84 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22HsB6hJ-A&fea...

hahahah, love it, nice little sleeper car that is.

Thats excellent

[dtrump]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mV887dMBpY

[Cotty]

I think it was BMW who said anyone of their engines could fit in any of their cars. To prove this they put a V12 into a Z3.

[Great Pretender]

Cotty said:

I think it was BMW who said anyone of their engines could fit in any of their cars. To prove this they put a V12 into a Z3.

Link?

[LHD]

Great Pretender said:

Cotty said:

I think it was BMW who said anyone of their engines could fit in any of their cars. To prove this they put a V12 into a Z3.

Link?

Racing Dynamics used to shoehorn the V12 into the e36 Compact.

[cookie1600]

Nice idea but for nipping around town, I'l take the Hayabusa turbo engined SMART please!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJ84nho3_k

[kambites]

I love the fact that on that twin engined A-class, they managed to get the second engine to fit entirely below the existing boot floor. You've got to wonder why they didn't put it there in the first place; I suppose the boot gets a bit warm, mind.