The world's fastest Mercedes - makes Porsche again! Bashny.Net

In Kharkov built the fastest Mercedes, not inferior to the speed of a Porsche 911 Turbo!
Tuned VAZ-2108 showed a record time to compete in drag racing in Ukraine. Distance of 402 meters in Nikolayev car running Kharkiv Sergei Rudenko overcome only in 11, 575 seconds. For comparison, a similar result (a little less than 11 seconds) at the same competition showed tuned the Porsche 911 Turbo, which acts as a powerful class of machines.
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On the creation of the most powerful "eight" worked in the company "M-Sport", which is developing rally cars. The main innovations are hidden under the hood of the car. The creators of the machine in fact collected the new 1, 5-liter, replacing more than half of the details. And all became crown mounted on a turbo system Garret, writes, "Gazeta po-Kharkov".

Indicators of capacity and the cost of building a unique "eight", Kharkiv did not disclose. Work on the improvement of the "super eight" are continuing.