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[hr]Base Number of Cylinders: 8
Base Engine Size: 5.5 liters
Base Engine Type: V8
Horsepower: 493 hp
Max Horsepower: 6100 rpm
Torque: 516 ft-lbs.
Max Torque: 2650 rpm
Drive Type: RWD
Turning Circle: 36.2 ft[hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: watewate
for pure power I'd take CL600... that's a monster V12 TT underneath...

493hp@5000rpm and 590lb/ft@1800rpm... 1800.... 1800.... 1800.... OMG... 1800....

I heard folks at AMG were experimenting with the engine, but they could not find any tranny and driveshaft that would stand up to the power in their usual AMG parts bin... They were pushing 612hp and 950lb/ft... when they bored out the 5.5 into 6.0 V12 TT[hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: watewate
for pure power I'd take CL600... that's a monster V12 TT underneath...

493hp@5000rpm and 590lb/ft@1800rpm... 1800.... 1800.... 1800.... OMG... 1800....

I heard folks at AMG were experimenting with the engine, but they could not find any tranny and driveshaft that would stand up to the power in their usual AMG parts bin... They were pushing 612hp and 950lb/ft... when they bored out the 5.5 into 6.0 V12 TT[hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: watewate
CL600, V12 TT, twin turbo.[hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: Gotti
I've got a CLK 320 [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/IMG]

Anyway, my neighbor has an M5, he informed me that he's gonna get the SLK55 when it comes out. Maybe he'd like to swap his M5 for my civic [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: JohnnyLee
Y do u own a civic if u can afford a CLK??[hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: Snowman
I don't think I've seen a modded twin turbo one yet. It's just a v12 from the factory.
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Nm, I was thinking you thought those were like that from the factory. If you have a link to one, I would like to see this car.[hr]

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[hr]The top CL gets a minor facelift but a major power hike thanks to a new twin-turbo V12

Don't turn the page just yet. Yes, it's a standard CL, and one so subtly face-lifted that even a Mercedes-Benz product planner would have trouble spotting the difference, but there is more, I promise, much more. This is the new CL600, see, and it goes a bit better than the old one because its more than adequate 5.8-litre normally aspirated V12 has been replaced by a 5.5-litre twin-turbo V12. Yup, that's twin-turbo V12.

Take a moment to absorb the stats of the old engine: 367bhp at 5500rpm, 391lb ft at 4000rpm. Not exactly weedy though perhaps peak torque could do with arriving a bit sooner. No problem: the new engine lifts power by 36 per cent and torque by an astonishing 51 per cent, resulting in a whopping 493bhp at 5000rpm and a stupendous 590lb ft... delivered from just 1800rpm.

With masterful understatement, Mercedes says 'the performance figures are correspondingly impressive'. No kidding. Zero to 62mph tumbles from 6.1 to 4.8sec.
The obvious question is why has Mercedes deemed it necessary to give the CL600 such an enormous uplift in performance when most car makers would be happy to give a revised model a few per cent more. It's true that the arrival of the 470bhp SL55 AMG has made the top CL look a little limp, but it's probably been prompted more by the threat of the up-coming Bentley GT Coupe, with its estimated ?10,000 price tag and twin-turbo W12 delivering up to 740lb ft of torque.

The CL600 has required remarkably few modifications to accommodate its hugely more potent engine, essentially a slightly detuned version of that found in the Maybach limo. The five-speed automatic gearbox has chunkier gears to withstand the torque and there's a longer final drive ratio, but the chassis is untouched apart from bigger rims and tyres. The wheels are still flat-faced forged alloys but of 18in rather than 17in diameter, and in a more attractive six-hole design, while tyre size goes up from 225/55 all round to 245/45 up front and 265/40 astern.

You're more likely to identify the new 600 by its alloys than the other visual changes, which amount to clear lens bi-xenon headlamps and a tidier lower bumper design at the front and mildly modified rear light lenses. Inside there's a bigger sat nav/TV screen and new switches but that's about it. Fire it up, though, and the double-time starter motor whine and complex multi-cylinder growl that follows are pure supercar, albeit more distant sounding within the heavily insulated luxury cabin.
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[hr]Originally posted by: JohnnyLee
Y do u own a civic if u can afford a CLK??[hr]

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[hr]Originally posted by: Gotti

I cant afford anything. My dad has a CLK which I can drive anytime, and I have a 2002 civic.[hr]