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#21 ·
Re: (eunos94)

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MB 500E for me.
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Would have to agree...
 
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Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (riceburner2)

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They also made at least one station wagon. http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif

There was an acticle on a US 300TE 6.0 AMG in Road and Track or Car and Driver that I posted here a few years ago but I don't have the article online anymore.
This wasn't a Hammer. It had the 6.0 V8 but it only had 2-valve heads. ALL Hammers have AMG-designed 32-valve heads. It had all of the other AMG add-ons found on a Hammer, but this wagon had a lower top speed. At the time, AMG didn't offer rear lowering springs for the wagon so they used a set of cut springs. That resulted in the car becomming very unstable at higher speeds - IIRC anything above 130 or 140mph. The US owner of the car was fine with that since he didn't plan on driving the car at those speeds.
 
#24 ·
Re: (SuperGroove)

Quote, originally posted by SuperGroove »
My favorite 80s sedan:
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BTDT - I lusted over an AMG Hammer when they were new as well...and then Miami Vice went off the air and the Don Johnson look got old and stale so I lusted over the M5 instead as it was more timeless with it's Legoland design...
The 500E and virtually every MB performance car produced since the mid-80s (with one notable exception) suffer from the same problem - they're "shiftless".
 
#25 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (B3passatBMX)

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Even by today's currency standard these things were expensive, $160K back in 88 was ALOT of money.

Interesting...
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Current data is only available till 2007. In 2007, $160,000.00 from 1988 is worth:
$280,428.74 using the Consumer Price Index
$252,949.04 using the GDP deflator
using value of consumer bundle *
using the unskilled wage *
$352,058.39 using the nominal GDP per capita
$433,991.93 using the relative share of GDP
* Data for consumer bundle is only available till 2006.
* Data for unskilled wage is only available till 2006.

$280k is a lot of money for a car. A 2008 S65 AMG is about $180k, a 2008 Bentley Arnage is about $260k....
I still love the Hammer, though... understated yet agressive... all without even having a flat black paint job!
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Modified by Blanchemont at 9:51 PM 3-5-2008
 
#26 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (MEIN_VW)

Quote, originally posted by MEIN_VW »

There was an acticle on a US 300TE 6.0 AMG in Road and Track or Car and Driver that I posted here a few years ago but I don't have the article online anymore.
This wasn't a Hammer. It had the 6.0 V8 but it only had 2-valve heads. ALL Hammers have AMG-designed 32-valve heads. It had all of the other AMG add-ons found on a Hammer, but this wagon had a lower top speed. At the time, AMG didn't offer rear lowering springs for the wagon so they used a set of cut springs. That resulted in the car becomming very unstable at higher speeds - IIRC anything above 130 or 140mph. The US owner of the car was fine with that since he didn't plan on driving the car at those speeds.

Thanks, I just can't remember the details anymore. Too many lost brain cells.
 
#27 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (Blanchemont)

Quote, originally posted by Blanchemont »
$280k is a lot of money for a car. A 2008 S65 AMG is about $180k, a 2008 Bentley Arnage is about $260k....

The thing about the Hammer was there simply was no other sedan with that kind of performance. It was truly one-of-a-kind.
AMG Mercedes, SLR, Bentley, Aston, Rolls, blah blah blah, one's just as good as the other. Yeah they're different, but it's to hard to argue that one's really better.
Not so with the Hammer. If you wanted to embarrass Italian supercars with a 4 door sedan, it was the only game in town.
 
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Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (B3passatBMX)

Quote, originally posted by B3passatBMX »
What a gorgeous looking car and what a monster! Still today, a sedan capable of 188mph is pretty rare, although not surprisingly many of the few that can, are from AMG themselves. Even by today's currency standard these things were expensive, $160K back in 88 was ALOT of money. What I wouldn't give to drive one of these.
The Hammer

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Incredible car for that time period. Greatest ever? No. As starry-eyed as we all get over great cars of yesterday, time marches on.
On a side note, some kid at my highschool had one. Lucky kid.
 
#35 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (LSinLV)

Quote, originally posted by LSinLV »
This is NOT "The Hammer"
The Hammer

THIS is "The Hammer" and it's from the 70's, NOT the 80's
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Either you or everyone on the planet is wrong. I'm guessing its you.
http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif for Hammers!
 
#36 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (B3passatBMX)

Some numbers from Road & Track 1987 road tests:
AMG Hammer
Price - $175,000
0-60 - 5.2
0-100 - 11.5
1/4 mile - 13.6 @ 109.5
Top speed - 183 mph
Ferrari Testarossa
Price - $134,000
0-60 - 5.4
0-100 - 10.9
1/4 mile - 13.7 @ 111.0
Top Speed - 185 mph
Lamborghini Countach
Price - $138,000
0-60 - 4.7
0-100 - 10.8
1/4 mile - 12.9 @ 110.0
Top speed - 179 mph
911 Turbo (300hp European model)
Price - $68,670
0-60 - 4.8
0-100 - 11.7
1/4 mile - 13.6 @ 108 mph
Top speed - 159 mph
BMW M6 (256hp US model)
Price - $58,380
0-60 - 6.1
0-100 - 16.5
1/4 mile - 14.7 @ 95.5
 
#37 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (mister_g60)

Quote, originally posted by mister_g60 »
very cool, though personally I'd rather have an 500E.
EDIT: ok, so is the famous Porsche built E the 500E or the E500? I always get it wrong and never bothered looking it up. for whatever reason I always thought it was 500E.

The answer is "yes"
MB changed their numbering nomenclature in 1994, so all the cars before then were 500E. From 1994 on, they were E500, which continues on to this day.
Likewise, the rest of the model line.
 
#38 ·
Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (pops)

pfft $160,000 for an AMG Hammer in the late 1980's is nothing for a drug smuggler who smuggled coke in Southern Florida back when
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[had to throw my cheesy miami vice crack in there somehow
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Re: AMG Hammer..greatest sedan of the 80s? Or ever? (LSinLV)

Quote, originally posted by LSinLV »
This is NOT "The Hammer"
The Hammer

THIS is "The Hammer" and it's from the 70's, NOT the 80's

Ok...got any links to back that up cause seems everyone on here and every article I read seemed to think it was produced in 88.
 
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