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ML320 · #9 02-14-2003, 03:20 AM

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Originally posted by Freestyler
I found an article in a danish online car magazine. It's here but it's in danish, so you properbly won't understand a word.
I'll translate the essentials..
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Danish Kleemann and Jason Watt sets new record

The danish tuning company Kleemann A/S and the race driver Jason Watt has broken a new world record. On the high speed raceway Nardo in Italy, Jason Watt drove a Kleemann Mercedes ML 55K at 282 km/h (176 mph).

They broke Porsche Cayenne's existing record at 266 km/h (166 mph).

Kleemann is a specialist in kompressor tuned Mercedes engines, and the company wrote history last year with "the worlds's fastest 4-door sedan" -an E55 going 338 km/h (211 mph) on Papenburg raceway in Germany.

Now the danes have given Porsche something to live up to, if they want to reclaim the title as "The world's fastet SUV". The 5,5 litre V8-engine produces 607 hp. 0-60 mph is done in 4,9 sec.
-Nice performance for a 2,5 ton car!
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So now you know what to wish for next christmas..

Great news! Thanks for posting it. The previous fastest ML was the Brabus MV12 which also made it into the Guinness Book of World records as the fastest production off-roader:

http://www.brabus-online.de/special/03bbe.htm

PS. 150 MPH is not so fast, as least not for this German Autobahn driver. Got a call recently in downtown Munich if I could make 8 PM that night in Berlin. After 3-4 hours at and above 240 km/h I made it on time. Used dynamic traffic guidance around jams (MB Audio 30 APS in a W210).

Wolfgang