【4K中字】奔馳W124 500E vs 奧迪RS2 vs 寶馬M5 Touring, 德國“上古神獸”直線加速賽

Picture this, it's the mid-1990s and you are a wealthy German car fan with a penchant for purple paint and a taste for the clutch pedal and a serious need for speed and a really, really good radar detector Also, you have no appointment with the fertility clinic That's right, these were the three fastest baby haulers in the world We're gonna race them Plus that Picture this, it's the mid-1990s and you are a wealthy German car fan with a penchant for purple paint You can help support these videos by joining the Hagerty Drivers Club It includes a subscription to our award-winning magazine Unlimited access to our valuation tool 24-7 flatbed roadside assistance Free classified listings Exclusive coupons and offers And early access and VIP perks to select Hagerty events More info in the link below Let's start out with the purplest of the trio, the BMW If there's one generation of M5 that's the forgotten generation, it's the E34 Not because it wasn't good looking or fast But probably because its S38 engine was mostly carried over from the E28 M5 Except in Europe, they got a wagon And they got a 3.8 liter The biggest straight six BMW has ever produced It made 335 horsepower at a violent independent throttle body screaming 6,900 rpm And even though the wagon weighs 192 pounds more than the US-spec sedan That made only 311 horsepower Which is exactly the horsepower the Audi RS2 made 311, but from a much smaller engine The double overhead cam 20 valve inline 5 displaced just 2.2 liters But used a turbo to make 10 Newtonian meters of torque more than the BMW More importantly, the transition from regular Audi wagon to RS2 was carried out at Porsche So not only is the RS2 typically Audi gorgeous, it's Porsche fast And it may be down one cylinder on the BMW, but it's up one gear Like the BMW, the Mercedes has 6 cylinders and 5 speeds But this is the coolest 5 speed in the world, because it's a dog leg The US market did get the famously well-built Mercedes 124 in wagon form But we never got it with a manual paired with the late M104 twin cam 24 valve 3.2 liter straight six It may be 100 or so horsepower down on the other two cars But I'm not concerned in the least That's because Mercedes made an even faster 124 This is not purple It's not a manual and it's also not a wagon But like the Audi, it was built by Porsche And it has a V8 It is a Mercedes 500E It's 5 liter, quad cam, variable valve timing, 32 valve V8 Made 322 horsepower That's midway between the others But it trounce them both in torque Will the 4 speed auto tragic transmission ruin the day Or can the ultimate non-purple 90s sedan trounce the ultimate 90s purple-ish wagon Holy schnitzelscheiße That was not supposed to happen OK, the Mercedes has the least favorable power to weight of the entire group And yet it left those two other cars for dead That is seven and a half car lengths back to the BMW Whoops This is why numbers don't always tell the whole story The Mercedes gets off the line with a little brake torque and just enough wheelspin Not to piss off the non-defeatable traction control Displacement plus variable valve timing means this thing makes ludicrous torque everywhere And despite its long 49 mph first gear It's almost even with the other two cars on the launch Its old school automatic slam shifts instead of cutting power So each of the two times it shifts It just gains even more ground on the other two cars It crosses the line in 14 seconds flat Barely into third gear With the other two cars Distant memories in the rear view mirror With an aggressive launch The M5 gets off the line with just the right amount of wheelspin So that the big S38 is coming on cam right when the tires hook up It pulls like a monster to 7 grand Just a dainty little kidney grill ahead of the Mercedes But when it comes time to shift The Mercedes pulls away From that point on the Benz just keeps pulling further and further Meanwhile the real close race is back here between the two Wagons You know the cars that probably should have raced against the Mercedes wagons Getting a 30-year-old turbocharged all-wheel drive manual transmission Audi Off the line in a hurry Is the kind of thing that could bankrupt a small nation So we did what any prudent enthusiast would do We beat the shit out of it But we only did it to the point where we didn't break it Gott sei dank Which is thank God in Audi speak The all-wheel drive Audi launches hard enough to bottom out its rear suspension But ultimately manages to stay out front for just a fraction of a second It quickly runs out of revs in first and requires a shift into second Which is where it drops from first place to last The reason why After the shift you gotta wait for the turbo boost to build back up again This actually pulls a tiny bit harder in gear than the M5 does But the gaps in acceleration after each shift Put the car with the best power-to-weight ratio in the back Sound good though Imagine you were lucky enough to grow up in one of these really fast cars You'd go to school and you'd bench race your friend's parents' cars Proudly boasting that your dad had the fastest wagon of them all And the world's best radar detector Well it's 30 years later And you want to recapture that speed, that thrill, that muscle You know what you need, right? A Miata And a brand new Valentine 1 Gen 2 radar detector They're sponsoring this episode, Jason Randy, Valentine 1 has been inadvertently sponsoring my driver's license For more than 20 years Me too! I love this thing! If you ever want to know what death tastes like Kiss your filthy 20-year-old radar detector Anyway, with barely more than half the weight of the 500e The ND2 Miata doesn't exactly scream speed Will the Miata's 181 horsepower be enough to stop Randy from humiliating himself? Jason, your big 5-liter badass supercar D8 Mercedes Barely kept up with this Miata Let's see what happens when the road turns Well that was all a bit of a mind fudge Because everyone thinks of the Miata as a slow car Nobody thinks of a Mercedes 500e as a slow car And yet the slow Miata was in front for half of the quarter mile And then, by the way, the Miata beat a 3.8-liter E34 M5 And a Porsche-built Audi RS2 The finishing order for that race was exactly the opposite of what you would have expected based on the power to weight Damn it, maybe that means we should have raced the slow purple wagon Next time