V12 Diesel - who would have thought?
by Volker Weber
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"V12 Diesel - who would have thought?"
Petrolheads I guess :-)
We had it coming with those annoying Diesel LeMans Prototypes and didn't they announce a Q7 with that engine a while back?
One of Jeremy Clarkson's favourite cars (much to his own surprise) - at least the petrol version was! Did a head-to-head with Richard's top of the line Porsche last year.
Ja, ja, and please don't mention the "german cement salesmen" ;-)
Richard's Porsche (Carrera S with RWD) is by no means top of the line. But certainly the most genuine Porsche. Top of the line is a GT2 or maybe a GT3 RS. The perfect match for an R8 is a GT3. All three of them are ugly as hell.
Pah.
My dad had a V12 diesel in 1982....
It was a 500 brake horse power Kelvin Hughes, and pushed 84 feet and 100 tonnes of fishing boat through the water at 15 knots - about 3 knots faster than the fishery patrol boats of its time..
Oh. In a car ? God. Think of the exhaust fumes as it comes away from the lights..!
;-)
---* Bill
I don't know about the V12, but it sure looks like a huge FluxCapacitor under the rear hatch !
Right Glen, I was already looking for Dr. Brown in the background somewhere ;-)
@Volker
The Porsche GT3 was driven by the Top Gear folks last year, too, when they were driving that one and a Lambo and a funny James May car through France, Italy, Switzerland etc - superb episode, and guess who was driving the Porsche. TopGear is just brillant, there is nothing better than it, last season was the best ever actually I think. You can only get them as P2P though I think.
If you point your sat to Astra 2 (28.2 E), you can get it on your TV.
was ist Nerd?
sogar Autos über heise.de zu verlinken!
:D
