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   From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com   
      
   A PHYSICAL FORM OF INSANITY   
      
   By Kushan Mitra   
   The Pioneer, dailypioneer.com   
   Friday, May 11, 2018   
      
   The Mercedes-Benz E63S 4Matic+AMG is an utterly crazy car.   
   But is it the best crazy car out there?   
      
   We are told that Teslas have a "Ludicrous" Mode, where the   
   battery discharges electricity to the motors and gives a   
   huge boost to power. And while it took a long time for   
   electric cars to make such a mode possible, it is   
   mechanically and physically easier than what the new   
   Mercedes-Benz E63S AMG does. This, and keep in mind that   
   this is a two-ton luxury sedan, at full-bore, can go from a   
   standing start to 100 km per hour in 3.4 seconds. That is   
   faster than some proper supercars out there.   
      
   Think about it, the amount of precise mechanical movement   
   that gets done for something like this to happen. First, on   
   the Budhh International Circuit, a car like the E63S will   
   go through a litre of the best petrol just on the   
   kilometre-long back straight if your right foot is planted   
   on the floor. And that just takes a few seconds, really.   
   Ask yourself if you can drink a litre of water in a few   
   seconds. Most cars have thin fuel lines running from the   
   tank to the engine, not this one.   
      
   Think of the engine, to be able to feed fuel inside a   
   turbocharged V8 at quite a rate of knots and having that   
   engine constantly revolve 8,000 times a minute. An engine   
   that while supercharged produces a scarcely believable 612   
   horsepower. Get your head around that for a second, six   
   hundred and twelve horsepower. Any which way you slice or   
   dice it, that is a lot of power. And all this while you are   
   ensconced in fairly decent luxury and listening to music   
   through a brilliant Burmeister system.    
      
   So, in essence that is the ludicrousness of this car. It is   
   a comfortable, expensive but comfortable car that in an   
   instant converts itself into something brutal. If there was   
   a automotive representation of Hannibal Lecter, this is it.   
   Of course, to tame that amount of power, the E63S has   
   Mercedes' 4Matic+ intelligent four-wheel drive system.   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/others/a-physical-form-of-insanity.html   
      
   Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi   
   Om Shanti   
   http://bit.do/jaimaharaj   
      
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