Best Production German Sleeper Car: A visual study

[CorvallisBMW]

I'm going debadged (you can get them from the factory badgless) euro E28 M5 without the horrid M-tech body kit

Was gonna say E23 745i, but I'll go with E34 540i/6:

As fast as the M5, looks as shitty as a 525iA.

Both very good contenders

[grantlacey11]

that merc looks so tight

[Fusion]

I love the Lotus Omega/Carlton. People think it's a 2.0 with sideskirts and a spoiler. Always wanted one.

I'll go with this though:

The release of the AMG Hammer sedan in 1986, based on the Mercedes-Benz W124, took AMG's performance modifications for a fast compact sedan to a new level. AMG made the world's fastest passenger sedan at the time, nicknamed the Hammer,[4] by squeezing Mercedes 5.6-liter V8 tuned by AMG to 360 hp into a midsized 300-series sedan. It was very aggressive for the era, with 32-valve cylinder heads and twin camshafts, and said to be faster than the Lamborghini Countach from 60 to 120 mph.[5] Later models were even more powerful and introduced the 17" AMG Aero 1 Hammer wheels.

Or better yet: http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/sh...n&pageNumber=1

[Mystikal]

Was gonna say E23 745i, but I'll go with E34 540i/6:



As fast as the M5, looks as shitty as a 525iA.

[Iain]

The RS500 raped quite a lot of Group A touring cars, but it was no sleeper.

DJR out here ran +650hp @ 3/4bar through 8" slicks and the world's first IRS 9in

[markseven]

the ugly overgrown escort.
Merkur XR4Ti

a friend had a u.s. model here in germany- at lunch we would go about 45 miles away to eat pizzahut and would rap the thing out to 150mph for atleast 30 miles of it. it was ugly but it did move o.k.
2.5 turbo

Ford Sierra, correct? There was a Cosworth version that blew doors.

[mikeedler]

the ugly overgrown escort.
Merkur XR4Ti

a friend had a u.s. model here in germany- at lunch we would go about 45 miles away to eat pizzahut and would rap the thing out to 150mph for atleast 30 miles of it. it was ugly but it did move o.k.
2.5 turbo

[Eric]

I'm going debadged (you can get them from the factory badgless) euro E28 M5 without the horrid M-tech body kit

[daniel]

I'm gonna have to go with the E34 M5 or the E55 AMG, the older (maybe first?) one.

[TooTall90]

behold the greatest german sleeper, Hanz Gromen, awake to REM deep sleep in 3.3 seconds.

[SpyHunter]

I think it is quite suttle, probably the most suttle car ever made.
EDIT: I looked up suttle just out of curiosity, and it means "The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed." That definition tells me nothing...

It's pretty subtle, what you did there.

[She loved E]

op beat me to my vote.

amg wagons are a close second, but with all the body cladding they almost don't count.

[dirtysix]

(PS: I believe it's now official that punk is dead)

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[Hodge]

E34 M5's and E34 540's. Pretty fast cars, even for today's standards, plus they look very "conservative" in stock form.

[e30e]

x5 4.8iS
355 hp 350 tq out of a regular looking grocery getter x5