I refute your claims with this:
VIN: 1g3wh14t8md344154
Now, Tavarish, I think I’m going to touch something that’s close to your heart. This CL600 has a BIN just a hair under $15k and a big, torque-tastic 5.8 liter V12. It’s sitting on M-B wheels, and it’s a tastefully subdued black-over-gray. Now this isn’t the twin-turbo that came from 2003 on, but that means that…
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Some dude my wife works with has a mkiv Jetta TDI that does that shit. It’s almost comical. Dude is a flat-bill, chinstrap-beard, backpacker-hip-hop kinda guy.
Well if you look at Banks turbodiesels and and other high-power modified trucks, you’ll occasionally see some extra soot. However, most of them I’ve seen have actually no black smoke because of nitrous/propane/methanol to extract more explodiness out of the same amount of dino juice.
(But he has six fingers...)
Which would you rather transport with this vehicle:
Your whole crew?
I can understand doing that to a low-volume, high-demand vehicle...