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Mercedes Benz S 600 Guard Technical Specifications

The Mercedes Benz S 600 Guard is an awesome exotic car running on a 5.5 Liter Twin-turbocharged V12 engine, capable of 612lb-ft@3500rpm / 517bhp@5000rpm.

The Mercedes Benz S 600 Guard is able to accelerate from 0-60 mph in only 4.5 s and reaches a top speed of 130 mph.

Mercedes Benz S 600

This beautiful exotic car uses a 5 Speed Automatic transmission and weights 4895 lbs.

Are you sure you want one of these?

Well, you just need to put your hands on $0 and the Mercedes Benz S 600 Guard is all yours…

Try to drive carefully, a perfect car doesn’t make you a perfect driver. :)

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Renault

Going as far back as the late 1890’s Renault’s first vehicles were manufactured by founder Louis Renault along with members of his family under the first company name of Society Renault. Along with his two brothers two friends also helped in the manufacture of the first cars - their first one was the Voiturette and was sold in December of (18)98. What had been done to sell it was a test drive by their father’s close friend and associate, who was impressed by it and bought it immediately afterwards. After this success they then began to drum up publicity in motorsports such as auto racing and other events.

Their company - within a year of its first car - began producing the first sedan, and by the end of the decade in 1910 they had branched into the manufacture of trucks, taxis, and other vehicles. During the First World War the Renault factories produced ammunition, armament, and many other needed materials, and afterwards focused on many successful car lines. However during the Second World War, Renault was taken by the Germans and forced to serve the Third Reich’s war machine. When the liberation of France occurred in 1944 Louis Renault was imprisoned, in which before he was able to have his day in court he was found with his neck broken. After this all of his assets were seized by the French government and the car manufacturing company was turned into a public manufacturing corporation under a man named Lefaucheux.

Renault Logos

After the war and during its time as a public industry in France it was many new and innovative designs, and was able to compete heavily with other popular car manufacturing firms at the time, such as Volkswagen and even against the Beetle they maintained popularity. They continued to build massive and widespread support of their vehicles through genius marketing involving automobile racing and rallies.

By the 70s they had bounded into success that pushed them further, and even during the energy crisis of 1973 their top selling model, the economic based Renault 5, sold extremely well and continued to do so until it was replaced in the mid 80’s by the Super5. The late 70s was the era and legacy of partnerships for Renault, seeing a partnership with AMC and the formation of smaller firms in other European countries, in addition to agreements and technical information trades with Peugeot and Volvo, and even involvements and expansions into the South American markets.

However by the early 80s poor production quality plagued the lines, and by 1981 restructuring had to begin. In 1984 they were loosing millions of dollars, in fact, billions of francs - 12 billion in one year. A new chairman was appointed, named Georges Besse, and was charged with turning Renault around.

Sexy Babe standing in front of a damaged Renault

In swift action Georges cut many aspects of Renault, cutting costs and cutting losses. His changed were widespread and reverberated throughout the company - but in 1986 he was murdered outside his own home by Action Directe, a terrorist leftist group. His successor, Levy, continued the former’s policy and the deficit was eliminated by the latter 80’s. After this in the mid 90’s Renault became privatized and a traded company, then they made a shocking move by forming an alliance with the Japanese automaker Nissan in 2000.

Since then the profits have risen an astounding 45% for Renault, and a 5% increase in worldwide sales - about 2.5 million vehicles. New plans include a program to sell 800,000 more cars next year, and the introduction of the new Laguna.

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Smart

Started in 1994 by the Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch the Smart was meant to be a tiny car that could fit three in one parking space that is the size of a normal vehicle (by parking from the other direction of course) and to be extremely economical. The Acronym SMART stands for Swatch Mercedes ART, and the vehicles they produce are the products of an engineering idea that the vehicle should carry two human beings and a case of good beer. In the 90’s Mercedes-Benz studied the possibilities of building a super-sub compact car and looking into the idea of mass producing them at economical prices, later they teamed up with the Swatch group and thus the SMART car was born.

Smart Logo

Being a subsidiary of Daimler (formally the car company Daimler-Chrysler formally known as Daimler-Benz [formally known as Prince.../sarcasm]) it has the full technical backing and fiscal backing of the resource and development departments and of course the fiscal aspects.

With these resources at the disposal of the SMART project they have produced a product that is popular, with over 750k sold to date, and probably many more by the time of this writing. However, recent developments have come to light, starting two years ago with the Daimler Corporation deciding not to purchase more production room and then a year later in 2006 liquidating SMART assets and transferring them to another area in the auto grouping (the Mercedes and Benz areas).

Smart Tuning

Soon after Daimler canned the Forfour version of the vehicle and went into redesigning of the Fortwo models. Thus far the market share for these extremely small vehicles is quite wide, with Australia, Canada, and the USA being the major three areas. However in the USA several modifications had to be made, and the auto’s go through a third party most of the time, having 23 modifications on average to meet with the United State’s regulations regarding headlights, doors, odometers, and other minor safety issues. Currently the future for the Smart car is in the grey area.

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SAAB

Founded in 1947 SAAB Automobile was created as a part of the mega corporation SAAB (an airplane manufacturing company) which is an acronym in itself for “The Swedish Airplane Company”. The founding company was started as far back as the 30’s with war plane manufacturing in preparation of future European continental conflicts which soon occurred (World War Two). After the Second World War car manufacturing began and the first vehicle off the line was the Saab 92, which was built in the fashion of the popular streamliner and had a small two stroke two cylinder engine, with front wheel drive and full independent suspension. The reason it had the high number of 92 was that model 91 was an airplane, as were the models before that. Following this were the models 95 and 96, which both used a V4 engine rather than the older two stroke, which was ended due to emission controls in the 1970’s.

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Production from Saab and its emergence as a major brand coincided with the 500,000th car mark in 1970, as manufacturing and development of technology went on a fast track - having been spurred by the oil crisis. The first large car by Saab was the Saab 99 built in 1967, and then in 1970 Saab manufactured the engine independently of the English company beforehand, and in 1972 they increased volume to two liters. Following this turbochargers were incorporated and optional by 1977, and they incorporated a unique feature that also used a wastegate that regulated boost level and greatly increased performance. This is very significant, as unlike a large turbocharger that had lag, it enabled a smaller turbocharger to do the same job as the large one without lag, and without the emissions waste and fuel consumption waste while still delivering near to same levels of performance.

Saab Biopower Concept

Throughout the late 70s and early 80s Saab had begun to pick up a large number of customers and increase market share mainly because of its better turbo system in its cars, and the introduction of the Saab 900 which incorporated it. However by the mid 1980’s Saab was producing more than it was selling, and losses began to accrue, with over forty thousand vehicles remaining unsold - to combat this Saab took emergency steps by shutting down a major factory and then opening talks with other companies, resulting in the 1990 50% acquisition by GM. By 1995 it paid off with Saab posting in the black for the first time since the 80’s, and then in 200 GM bought SAAB’s remaining shares and SAAB Automobile became one of GM’s child companies. Currently Saab manufactures two popular models of vehicles, the 9-3 and the 9-5, which are manufactured and imported from Sweden; also there is the 9-7X SUV which is manufactured in Ohio, and does not need to be imported to the United States because… Ohio is in the United States. A new vehicle is planned for release in 2009 called the 9-4X, a large SUV that will also share its main platform components with the new Cadillac BRX.

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Suzuki

Suzuki has been around since 1905, having been founded by Michio Suzuki as the Suzuki Loom manufacturing company, and at first manufactured, as you can guess by the name, weaving looms. With the success of the loom weaving industry came a chance to expand the empire, and Michio soon did so in 1937 with a new project on cars. At the time they were powered by a liquid cooled design that was new, and also ran a four stroke cycle four cylinder engine.

Suzuki Logo

When the Second World War broke loose the plans for building these vehicles was scrapped as the Japanese Empire needed war goods, as the government of the Japanese Empire declared them a non-essential need. When the war ended, Suzuki continued to produce looms until the market collapsed in 1951. Looking at the total obliteration of Suzuki holdings, Michio again looked at automobiles as an alternative. Starting with motorized bicycles through a small but ingenious modification created by Shunzo Suzuki (The son of Michio) they soon moved on to motorcycles, and eventually by the mid 50’s 6k motorcycles were being delivered to consumers per month.

Suzuki Kizashi

In 1955 the first car called the Suzulight was released, and began what is known throughout Japan as the light car age, after which the company split between the car and loom manufacturing sectors and thus created different entities in order to focus on the cars in a more effective way. By 1963 Suzuki had established a foothold in the United States, starting in Los Angeles and throughout the 60’s and 70’s continued to advance toward better designs. In 2005 their vehicle, the Swift, was awarded the car of the year award by RJC and later on more developments in designs were implemented, including an updated motocross bike that has fuel injection. In addition to their own cars Suzuki has manufactured cars for GM, Subaru, Mazda, Nissan and several others.

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