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G55---Is it a sleeper??
I have noticed that there is a high performance version of the G-wagen called the G55. The G55 looks like a sleeper, Is it a sleeper or is it just asleep??
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A sleeper is a high performance(or modified) car that looks plain,stock,regular,bare etc. But when you race it, it leaves you in the dust. The 500e is a sleeper. Hence the name "sleeper"
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I drove a G500 and a G55 both for a week back to back.
The G55 is pretty dern fast for such a brick of a truck. Stoplight dragraces are really cool as I dispatched a few Mustang GT's and other random "furious / fast " type autos. The look on the face of a 16 y.o. kid in a Camaro getting smoked by 6000lb Austrian Military Vehicle is priceless. sadly, you need a kidney belt to drive these things and they get GPM not MPG. I averaged around 9 driving like normal. Sleeper is a good term, however the burly exhaust is a bit of a giveaway. DR.D |
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Pulled alongside one of them on the way to work this morning...
...I agree that the chrome brush guards are a bit of an overkill...especially the parking lights! They look like the light guards you see in basketball gymnasiums! Those dual side pipes are a dead giveaway, that "this is not your Daddy's G"... ![]()
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If you really wanted a sleeper, the hot ticket would be to buy a lightly used G500 and have a Kleemann supercharger installed. The G55 would be history against that leviathan, so would most cars on the road
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