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Edmunds - IL Track Tested: 2009 BMW 750Li vs. 2009 Mercedes-Benz S550This is a discussion on Edmunds - IL Track Tested: 2009 BMW 750Li vs. 2009 Mercedes-Benz S550 within the Internal Combustion forums, part of the Website Forums category; Originally Posted by Tarek Still i expected much more from that new TT V8,no wonder MB didn't update the V8s ... |
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04-15-2009, 02:24 PM
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04-15-2009, 02:27 PM
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| Well it can't be both ways. One minute everyone is on Mercedes about updating the V8 , but in reality it does just fine. Yet the next someone will tout how the BMW V8 is so superior....the question is which is it? Is the Mercedes V8 so old and uncompetitive or not? M
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| The MB V8 is clearly behind in performance in this duel but is it far enough behind to justify a brand new one? I don't think so, it is not that much behind in what makes a Mercedes.
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| What I've got to find out is how is that BMW, Audi/VW (nearly everything they sell here), Cadillac, and now Porsche manage to sell direct-injection engines here while Mercedes and Nissan/Infiniti say our gasoline it too dirty. I don't see anything about those who do sell DI engines here having their dealers service shops full of cars with clogged fuel injectors??? DI would take the 382hp, 5.5L V8 over 400 very easily though it still wouldn't match the BMW V8 on torque. M
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| Isn't that the case with the 3.0 from BMW as well? You poor sods state side gets the really old version with 231 (imperial) hp version while we get the 272 hp in the 528/530?
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| No BMW does the DI turbo 3.0L with 300hp in everything, 335i, 535i etc. The previous 760Li had DI years ago and was one of the first to employ it here. M
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| Yeah our base 3.0L does without DI correct. M
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