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LUVMBDiesels · #9 12-04-2007, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I didn't know they even made a CLS320CDI. MB doesn't import a lot of their good models.

Those Monte Carlo's were total junk, my friend had an 85 with a 305 back in high school. Total dog. A mid 90's V6 Camry spanked it. When you get owned by a Camry, thats just sad.

You gotta rememeber what it was like in the '80s. The Monte SS was the first attempt at bringing back a muscle car. It would take care of any similar year Mustang or T-Bird it came across. I mean my '77 Impala (350 4BBL and like 160 HP) used to blow away Mustangs and Camaros from the early '80s.

By the '90s they had fuel injection and computers sorted out enough to make decent hp. However,now that the Montes are getting up to 20+ years old, you can play with them and make some serious HP out of them.

I do agree that a Buick GN would have been a much hotter car. A buddy turned the boost up on his and intercooled it back in '88 or '89. with 22psi it blew away everybody else. (got 4mpg on avgas but ROCKED!)