Ah am da Genie of the Lamp!!! Daydreamin for Gearheads!!

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What a great thread...kinda took me down memory lane. Before I even had a car I was aware of the concusive allure of speed. A formative moment in my understanding of what a car could be was opening the Car&Driver December 2006 issue about the famed MB AMG "Hammer".

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Even after all these years I remember the line..."Beware the Jabberwocky" somewhere in that article and, in retrospect, it makes sense. These were the post Miami Vice years in which every bad guy had some pimped-out, flared-up Benzo for his bags o' coca, posse and rat-a-tat-gats. Naturally, the Benz boyz gotta come out with a sedan that goes 189 mph while not eschewing the obligatory wet bar and twin tvs.

Maybe that's why I never "got into" cars for many years after that. I knew I'd never achieve that level of perfection...or maybe it was the thirteen points I accumulated my first semester of college while driving an RX-7 turbo...a nice car but not nearly the same. I heard the main cat from AMG took a walk and started his own gig which flourished while AMG became an aftermarket option on just about every model. I think the new incarnation of the bad-boy Merc was "Lorinser"

Thanks for the thread Worfster, good read.

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What a great thread...kinda took me down memory lane. Before I even had a car I was aware of the concusive allure of speed. A formative moment in my understanding of what a car could be was opening the Car&Driver December 2006 issue about the famed MB AMG "Hammer".

One of the great muscle sedans of its day. Interesting fact: The engine was designed and built by Porsche.

I heard the main cat from AMG took a walk and started his own gig which flourished while AMG became an aftermarket option on just about every model. I think the new incarnation of the bad-boy Merc was "Lorinser"

Thanks for the thread Worfster, good read.

Hans Werner Aufrecht sold AMG to Mercedes in the '90's. They now use AMG to compete with BMW's "M" motorsports division. Aufrecht formed HWA, which has been very successful racing MB's in Touring Car and has replaced McLaren as contractor on their new mid-engined supercar which will replace the SLR.

Brabus is the tuner you're probably thinking about. Formed by a former AMG engineer, the Bullitt (no relation to Ford or Steve McQueen) is a C class based rocket that will touch 224mph. That's no joke.