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Old 01-24-2009, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by kerry View Post
It says it has a Mercedes engine.
Yeah, that's what it says, but I'd be really surprised. MAN is a pretty big manufacturing company, and diesels are one of their products (it was paritally founded by Rudolf Diesel) so why would they buy motors from MB?

Buddy of mine drove a big MAN for supply convoys in the first Gulf war. Said that it was a HUGE air-cooled turbo diesel...
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