Mercedes drops V6 engines and switches back to the intrinsically balanced inline 6 master race

define affordable
also it's not like sports cars are the only cars that matter

Still ass mad that Mercedes doesn't use hydraulic tappets.

>for the guy who can't depend on dealerships because he lives in a remote location or a guy who just wants to work on his car himself.
Well at the same time you have to remember that cars these days are built for normies and people who can afford to pay someone to wrok on their cars. Personally I believe that cars maintained by the owner is rapidly coming to an end.
As someone who's first car was built in 1975, I really enjoy having a large engine bay. I used to think a big engine bay was a waste, but in reality it's really quite useful. Whether this has anything to do with the engineers not having access to FEM and FEA, I do not know, but it's useful.

Never even considering the Shit8, my man.

>solid mounting instead of isolating the vibrations of a hopelessly imbalanced engine like it's usually done nowadays
based

Nice break from crying prez/o/

Nice obsession

The reason they switched to I6's was because they started to produce to little V8's and too many inline 4's though. It's a matter of economy of scale.

>Manufacturer who's lineup is roughly 80% RWD "luxury" switches back to I6

What's a surprise! V6 is only good for FWD shitboxes with delusions of class, not actual quality cars

so they did the right thing for the wrong reasons
I'm okay with that

>What's a surprise! V6 is only good for FWD shitboxes with delusions of class, not actual quality cars
>this triggers the Audi fangirl

Which explains why Audi is even going so far as dropping the old 4.2 V8 for a twin turbo V6

Audi BTFO

Well yeah, sticking an inline 6 ahead of the front axle wouldn't exactly be good for weight distribution.

youtube.com/watch?v=AmQAUJmvoBc

Yeah, a V6 is totally better in terms of understeer

Well, it's not like they give a fuck
youtube.com/watch?v=NZLYse15cj4

Audi is a fucking meme

This is on the """"sports"""" version too, not some badgewhore bait base model

>implying RWD and oversteer is much better

Stay BTFO, VAG fangirl

Audi is nothing but a marketing scam that only badgewhores fall for

ayyy are you the author of that pic? lel
I'm the memeball author lol

>implying it wasn't the autistic petfucker's fault

youtube.com/watch?v=Q8plO4AeKNU
Top kek

Sounds like you knew I'm fond of Alfa :^)

>V6

Just showing the power of not having a completely retarded drivetrain layout

this deserves wah wah wah sound superimposed on it when audi crashes

>i6 instead of V6
>Twin Turbo V8s

If it wasn't for all the fuckery Mercedes does with their low-end models, they would be my favorite.

>implying V6s can't be good sometimes
Don't get me wrong, I wish it was an I6, but that thing is like listening to a siren sing. Alfa has always made godly V6s, and this time Ferrari designed it. FFS, an user here had to go to the cardiologist because the excitement of hearing it gave him tachycardia.
youtube.com/watch?v=PLbwN08COlA

why are you posting that video as if its to say v6 cars/engines have bad understeer?

its fairly obvious the car understeered because of the speed/weather coming into the turn

To show having an engine all the way out in front of the front axle is a stupid engineering decision, which Audi only does so they can easily make FWD and """"AWD"""" versions of their cars

Not even a V6 with its better packaging compared to an I6 can save Audis from being pigfat, nose-heavy understeer machines

so you posted a video understeering as a fault of the driver to make fun of audi ?

Yes, that's what happens when you try to push an Audi beyond its (very low) limits

It understeers right off the track and into a wall, nothing you can do about it

>as a fault of the driver
top kek
the Alfa had no issues
from what I read in the comments that was an Audi test driver but it could be bogus

check the original video im responding to

not the one with the suv

youtube.com/watch?v=AmQAUJmvoBc this one

this cant be quattro, it did not even try to help, it's just a brick

nobody said anything about a quattro with that video

why do you say "and """"AWD"""" versions of their cars" when audi has one of the if not the best awd system currently

im fairly suprised i knew about benchracers but not benchengineers

my bad
still that's fucking sad, the thing didn't even begin to steer
props to it for barely getting dented at all though, I'd have expected a lot worse

>audi has one of the if not the best awd system currently
4Matic > quattro
mbworld.org/forums/attachments/c-class-w204/139684d1221740131-quattro-vs-4matic-4matic1.pdf
mbworld.org/forums/attachments/c-class-w204/139685d1221740131-quattro-vs-4matic-4matic-2.pdf

>fwd-based AWD
lmao
Audi crams the whole AWD system in the front because they don't believe in having center diffs and then these videos happen

its a fwd car so it did not exactly have any way to correct itself when the driver set the car up for a massive understeer situation

beat me to it, based

Ummm, that's quattro sweetie, 6:09. It didn't need to be towed out of the gravel trap.
youtube.com/watch?v=EOA3h4PVclo
Also inline-6 porn at 10:43

Funny how every single Audi in that video comes in with a huge amount of steering angle and all of them still push out wide

Meanwhile the BMWs and Mercs look much more balanced with a fair few slightly kicking the tail out on the exit

well, they don't call it audisteer for nothing :^)

POST RB26

Kek

AHAHAHAHA, Audi fangirls on suicide watch

youtube.com/watch?v=eLYq5VZP3S8
:^)

And your problem is?

youtube.com/watch?v=D2OlsCu1tfc

Literally why. Do they know that only soccermoms buy that shit and don't care?

Probably, they know badgewhores will buy anything with four rings on it, no matter how shit it actually is

youtube.com/watch?v=wysO0nj2bMQ

>V6
>not Busso

>1996 155 V6 Ti

>Busso V6

Pick one. The Ti version used the 90º PRV V6, meaning it's a french engine with italian heads.

>how will they ever recover?
Probably by waiting until Mercedes head warping becomes a meme.

>red bull racing
>based
The only reason they said that is because there power unit manufacturer can barely compete.

God-tier based af I6, bow to your perfectly balanced overlords.

Don't believe me? Name one reputable semi truck manufacturer that uses a V6, go ahead I'll wait.

Does mercedes count? They built the 12 liter V6 diesel actros for a while.

youtube.com/watch?v=qxoJk-T-Oc4

They did years ago, and I believe Detroit did in the 70's but no one nowadays uses them, everything is straight six. I have a DD15 and it's designed for 1 million miles without an inframe

Nice projection. Stay obsessed and anally destroyed.

detroit v6 were fucking godlike
318ci
listen to the fucker
sounds like a race car.

youtube.com/watch?v=21h7vnW1tIw

youtube.com/watch?v=whXagelxg-8

listen to it purr
that instant throttle response too

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrokRanX4k

Yeah, that must be why the former chief aero engineer from Red Bull decided to put a V12 in the Aston he designed

I'm not even Prez/o/ lol, you're definitely obsessed.

Keep projecting.

>projecting
>deflecting

>2 Ford duratec v6's attached at the crank
V12s are irrelevant because they can't fit behind axles.

Lol, so obsessed.

This i6 will come with a electric turbo, can't wait to see how much turbo lag time it will reduce

>if I keep saying it it'll become true!

Stay obsessed with your loose asshole.

...

Neato

now all we need is bigger displacement i6's

i6/v8 master race!

>a guy who just wants to work on his car
It'd just be like the guys who only work on carburetors who consider fuel injection to be too complex. At first it was a niche and expensive technology for electric driven accessories, but soon it'll be as common as fuel injection. Can be said about most new car technology that can be really good

nah m8, it's orders of magnitude more complex

Nope.

>even non-AMG V8 cars will have their engines developed by AMG
noice

>lolpushrods

From what I remember, the R32's engine, the Supra engines (both JZs, but 2 in particular), and other I6s can handle a surprising amount of boost and easily push out 500HP on stock internals, right? Is this because of the nature of the I6, or are those engines just built for power?

god motor is back

>twitter
>alphonse trumpet
wtf is this

Kek

praise kek, V6 utterly and completely btfo

Sounds like a vacuum cleaner with grinding gears, not cool

kek
literally can't make this shit up

Boxer 6>I6

wrong

post an inline 6 faster than this

youtube.com/watch?v=vHPiiHDZUro

>implying
that's only unbeatable because that circuit doesn't exist anymore