Monday, August 31, 2009

AMG...

My little R32 puts out 250 bhp and accelerates from 0-100 in under 6 seconds, imagine how I felt when a TAXI blew by me on the mean streets of Tokyo. Having been severely embarrassed I gave chase, finally catching up with the Mercedes cab at the next traffic junction...

Take a closer look...

That's an AMG modified S-class with a 5.5 litre, V8 supercharged powerplant capable of doing 0-100 in 4.6 seconds...

He must have noticed me taking a picture, because when the light turned green he decided to show me just how fast 0-100 in 4.6 seconds looked from the rear...

2 comments:

sing-yee said...

This has git to be a hoax of some kind. How much would it cost to ride a AMG Merc taxi that does 0 to 60 in 4.6sec? Who would pay? And how on earth can you find the road space in Tokyo to floor the accelerator of the beast?

sashimi said...

no joke... when that light turned green, he left me smelling his smoke... could be an old AMG converted to a Taxi, the resale value of these cars in Japan is terrible. Still, it beats the heck out of me why anyone would use it as a Taxi, the fuel consumption itself would make it unfeasible...