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Old 08-16-2005, 10:16 PM
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Question R500 Amg?

I'm kinda new around Mercedes, but I'm trying to get more familiar with them. so this might be just normal.

I saw this R-class the parking garage of a hotel I was staying at about a month ago.... It say's R500 but all the other one's I've seen don't have the 4 exhaust tips. looks like it might be an AMG version. And also a very strange looking ball hitch. Wondering if anyone knows more about the exhaust why it has 4 and all the others i've seen only have 2... also whats with Werkswagon??

Sorry about the blurryness it was a cameraphone in a dark garage...

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This is a test vehicle and is the AMG version R class due for release sometime in 2006. I am not sure of the engine specs but it will be one hot machine. The normal R500 has a 302HP 5 liter V8. The AMG will be larger and probably based on the new 32 valve V8 being introduced in the new S Class after the first of the year.

Go to www.germancarfans.com and do a seach for R Class AMG and you will find some information on it.

Werkswagon is found on all MB prototypes and test cars. The trail hitch is probably for testing purposes such as a 5th wheel rig.
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Cool cool. thanks thats what I thought it was but wasn't certain.
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The car of pictures shown from HITMAN187 is R500 AMG "Style".

The real AMG model is R55 or R63 AMG.

Here is information from 4car
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I don't know Otto...the HITMAN pictures show the quad exhasust with the wider rear skirt and the Werkwagon designation. I think the pictures show the "real" AMG test vehicle...with what engine I don't know.
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It is the "Real" AMG

Here is the same car posted on a different forum by Hightest of High. The license plate is the same as well as the markings on the car.
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Remember that tag 5506 is used on most, if not all, MB test vehicles. I found out from another thread on the G Glass.
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Remember that tag 5506 is used on most, if not all, MB test vehicles. I found out from another thread on the G Glass.
I thought of that after I posted. But I am convinced it is the same car in both pictures or another of the same ilk.

Think I'll wait for the R63 and win all the stoplight starts...:-)
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so what, cancelling the R500?
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so what, cancelling the R500?
No, not quite...that was in jest...:-) I imagine that bomb will run about $90,000 or more and at my age 302HP is more than enough to keep me happy.

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