Thread: Mercedes-Benz V-8-powered B-класа, пабудаваны стажораў

Those of you who were not enamored by yesterdays news about the trio of hydrogen-fueled Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL cars setting off on a World Tour should really like todays news from Germany.

Peter Wasp, the plant manager at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Rastatt, where the B-Class is made, came up with a neat project for the technical vocational training department. Could the trainees fit a V-8 engine, driving the rear wheels, in a B-Class car that normally has a 1. 5 or 2. 0-liter 4-cylinder engine driving the front wheels without radically altering the look of the car?

A tape measure confirmed there was room. A donor B 200 CDI was found and a 388 horsepower 5. 5-liter V[COLOR=black][COLOR=black]-8 coupled to a seven-speed automatic transmission was shoehorned in. The rear axle came from an older 210-series E-Class. Apparently the most difficult part of the transformation was modifying the steering.

The one-off car has been dubbed a B55. The group of Mercedes-Benz trainees that modified the B-Class car reckon it will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under six seconds as the car is only 400 lbs heavier than a stock B-Class car. Its doubtful if the car will ever become a production vehicle but it is surely nice to see the trainees to experience something the exact opposite of the fuel cell B-Class F-CELL electric cars.

Those of you who were not enamored by yesterdays news about the trio of hydrogen-fueled Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL cars setting off on a World Tour should really like todays news from Germany.

Peter Wasp, the plant manager at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Rastatt, where the B-Class is made, came up with a neat project for the technical vocational training department. Could the trainees fit a V-8 engine, driving the rear wheels, in a B-Class car that normally has a 1. 5 or 2. 0-liter 4-cylinder engine driving the front wheels without radically altering the look of the car?

A tape measure confirmed there was room. A donor B 200 CDI was found and a 388 horsepower 5. 5-liter V[COLOR=black][COLOR=black]-8 coupled to a seven-speed automatic transmission was shoehorned in. The rear axle came from an older 210-series E-Class. Apparently the most difficult part of the transformation was modifying the steering.

The one-off car has been dubbed a B55. The group of Mercedes-Benz trainees that modified the B-Class car reckon it will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under six seconds as the car is only 400 lbs heavier than a stock B-Class car. Its doubtful if the car will ever become a production vehicle but it is surely nice to see the trainees to experience something the exact opposite of the fuel cell B-Class F-CELL electric cars.