"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/09/2018 at 11:55 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
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Outside the US, Mercedes sells an Outbacktified version of the E-Class wagon called the E-Class All-Terrain. This is not that car. Oh no, this is something else entirely.
The !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is a pretty typical Outbacktified luxury European station wagon. Since it’s made for the European market, it’s equipped with a turbodiesel 2.0 liter 4-cylinder making 194 hp and 294 lb/ft of torque. Here it is, pictured in its natural habitat.
The
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is the brainchild of one crazy Mercedes engineer named Jurgen Eberle who for whatever reason Mercedes decided to give a huge budget to design custom portal axles for the E-class independent suspension which along with other assorted tweaks give the E400 All-Terrain 4x4˛ a total of
17 inches of ground clearance.
Here’s Jurgen with his tape measure, for kicks:
As you can probably guess from the name, the E400 All-Terrain 4x4˛ ditches the 2.0 liter turbodiesel for the 3.0 liter twin turbo V6 that makes 329 hp and 354 lb/ft.
Anyway, Motor Trend checked the thing out and has a video.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Textured Soy Protein
03/09/2018 at 12:00 |
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portals > not portals.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Textured Soy Protein
03/09/2018 at 12:01 |
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Wait wait wait over here in crossover land Mercedes DOESNT sell the crossover-ified E class wagon. That just seems silly. Probably has something to do with not wanting to “soil the brand image”.
BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
> Textured Soy Protein
03/09/2018 at 12:02 |
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I just tried to imagine a lifted 5-Series wagon, but I guess they already make one
chaozbandit
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
03/09/2018 at 12:13 |
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Just imagine this, but bigger.
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Textured Soy Protein
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
03/09/2018 at 12:42 |
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Maybe it has something to do with Mercedes actually selling a fair amount of regular wagons in the US and not wanting/needing to sell the Outbacktified version to make their numbers. Whereas most of the other companies selling wagons want/need to go the Outbacktification route to increase sales. But I dunno really.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Textured Soy Protein
03/09/2018 at 13:46 |
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I know, I want one.... with higher sidewalls.