Not a Merc fan but this is different...

[Redv8]

6.3litres of Germany's finest ... Pure petrol head pornography http://t.co/2qT4CmHj and the sound of it blasting up the start/finish straight was out of this world

[Eighteeteewhy]

Isn't that 12.6Litres.

[soad]

Eighteeteewhy said:

Isn't that 12.6Litres.

Two cars in a video.

[martin84]

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

It intrigues me how the engine size of a BMW actually bears no relation to what the model name says.

[iva cosworth]

Why is it "different" ?

SLSs are comparitively common compared to a SLR Mclaren

[Redv8]

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

Always round up...

[mollytherocker]

Redv8 said:

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

Always round up...

So its a 7 litre then?

MTR

[PumpkinSteve]

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

Probably not the thread for mentioning this, but when I was a young(er) lad I had a Clio which was 1.149, but called a 1.2.

[Rich_W]

martin84 said:

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

It intrigues me how the engine size of a BMW actually bears no relation to what the model name says.

Yeah. I mean the 325 has a 2.5 litre engine.
The 540 has a 4.0 litre engine.
850 had a 5.0 engine

oh...

[veevee]

Rich_W said:

martin84 said:

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

It intrigues me how the engine size of a BMW actually bears no relation to what the model name says.

Yeah. I mean the 325 has a 2.5 litre engine.
The 540 has a 4.0 litre engine.
850 had a 5.0 engine

oh...

The current 328 has a 2.0 litre engine.

[veevee]

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

IIRC Mercedes said they decided on 63 as it sounded better than 62!

[deltashad]

mollytherocker said:

Redv8 said:

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

Always round up...

So its a 7 litre then?

MTR

In that case then surely it should be a 6 litre as it's the nearest round number.

I was always under the impression it was rounded up, or down depending what was closest. So the Merc should be a 6.2.

I think they use the '6.3' for nostalgia, harking back to the big old 6.3's of the seventies.

[ThunderSpook]

Don't we round to the nearest 10?

[Cock Womble 7]

ThunderSpook said:

Don't we round to the nearest 10?

So it's a 10 litre?

[Carfolio]

In the Merc's case they are taking liberties to tie the current AMG range in with their historical cousins, the first of which was a 6.3 litre V8 in a S class body.

With BMW, it's a case of what used to be a way of naming models carrying over with a different meaning but similar absolute numbers being used. Where the last 2 digits of the model actually did indicate engine capacity, it now simply should be read as a sequence indicating a hierarchy.

Both could be called misleading, perhaps, but personally I think they are not deliberately so.

[Fort Jefferson]

veevee said:

Rich_W said:

martin84 said:

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

It intrigues me how the engine size of a BMW actually bears no relation to what the model name says.

Yeah. I mean the 325 has a 2.5 litre engine.
The 540 has a 4.0 litre engine.
850 had a 5.0 engine

oh...

The current 328 has a 2.0 litre engine.

318 2litre
335d 3litre

[Fort Jefferson]

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

Is one swept and one total?

[stephen300o]

F1s Medical estate Merc sounds better..

[ajprice]

Fort Jefferson said:

veevee said:

Rich_W said:

martin84 said:

contango said:

This always intrigues me that the 6.208 litre is somehow a 6.3 litre ???

It intrigues me how the engine size of a BMW actually bears no relation to what the model name says.

Yeah. I mean the 325 has a 2.5 litre engine.
The 540 has a 4.0 litre engine.
850 had a 5.0 engine

oh...

The current 328 has a 2.0 litre engine.

318 2litre
335d 3litre

The 114i, 116i and 118i all have a 1.6 turbo.

[richcorsavxr]

stephen300o said:

F1s Medical estate Merc sounds better..

word!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlgw90Ns7c&fea...