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SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: SL65 Test Drive on SPEED CHANNEL 1/2/06

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Old Dec 28, 2005 | 11:46 PM
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SL65 Test Drive on SPEED CHANNEL 1/2/06

Mercedes Test Drive
SPEED Jan 02 07:00pm Monday
Special/Sports, 60 Mins.

This is Pacific Time Zone


Tommy Kendall, two-time F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen and sports car legend Klaus Ludwig offer an in-depth look at the Mercedes Benz AMG.


Original Airdate: January 2, 2006.

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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 02:41 AM
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Sweet! Their site doesn't say much except "AMG Models" .. but should be awesome.
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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 08:38 AM
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Does anyone know if this is available in the UK, on Sky perhaps? I have looked, but it doesn't appear to be.

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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 02:36 PM
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On the promo it showed 2 SL65's Going at it on a road coarse.

On past shows they would take 2 cars of a model like the new Dodge Charger
and put them up against each other on a oval, road, and drag strip.
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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 02:40 PM
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Never heard of this channel before, I have comcast cable, I need to see if I have it or can get it, I would like to see this.
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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 02:44 PM
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Never heard of this channel before, I have comcast cable, I need to see if I have it or can get it, I would like to see this.
wow! this channel has been around for some years. Mostly they play Nascar unfortunately!
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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 03:21 PM
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I have Comcast also out here on the west coast
The speed channel is part of package I think it's
about $5.00 a month extra
Has all kinds of car stuff 24 hours a day
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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Sauceboy01
wow! this channel has been around for some years. Mostly they play Nascar unfortunately!
Lately -- they got bought-out or sold, I think it was last year, and now it's Nascar 'cause they figure that's where the audience and the advertising dollars are....
Used to be a LOT better channel...but you take what you can get, right guys?
Welcome to the dumbing-down of America: Chic*****, Kid$****, Dumb***** -- 'cause that's who they can sell to with TV ads.....

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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 04:26 PM
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Starting Sunday this channel has the BARRETT-JACKSON AUCTION
You won't see any AMG cars but the auction is great
all kinds of cars
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Old Dec 29, 2005 | 04:52 PM
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I have it on direct tv. I heard the other night there was an AMG show testing about 5 models. I missed it. Anyone catch that one?
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:54 AM
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Cool

DONT MISS IT.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 06:33 PM
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I'm trying to get a friend of mine to encode it for you guys.

its tonight at 10pm.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 09:38 PM
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Got it setup to be recorded on the TIVO!!!!!!

Hope I get back in town before TIVO deletes it and records something else.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 11:03 PM
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damn it guys I missed the show. If you have it recorded please let me know I really want to see it. Does any one know if it is going to air again??
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 11:18 PM
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Go to www.speedtv.com and look at the other times for January under programming. It comes on about 5 more times.
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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 11:30 PM
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http://www.speedtv.com/programs/425/

It comes on again, but I wonder if its repeats or a series? I think its repeats because it doesn't say "new" next to the rest of them.

Anyway, I'm recording it to DVD and then will rip it on my PC and finance my next MB purchase by selling it to you guys for $5 per download j/k .. I'll put up a link to it once I'm done.
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Old Jan 3, 2006 | 12:37 AM
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It was fun.... Wasn't as good as it could have been -- but that's TV in a nutshell.
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Old Jan 3, 2006 | 12:57 AM
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DAMMIT .. I thought it was 10pm pacific .. it was 7pm pacific, so I missed it.

If anyone does encode it, I'll put it on a server.

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Old Jan 3, 2006 | 01:06 AM
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same thing happen to me...
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Old Jan 3, 2006 | 03:05 AM
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If anyone recorded it to TIVO and is willing to put it on VHS or DVD, I'm happy to pay for the costs to get a copy and I will encode it and put it up on a server for MBWorld users to leech.
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