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Very impressed with the SLK, it keep up with the viper, I thought the viper was going to murder it. enjoy..

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Well that was good, But arent most Vipers modified, It is common to see vipers with bolt ons, ie headers or cold air intake.

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what's impressive wasn't the bolt-ons, although most vipers are modified, american cars are cheap to mod, unlike european cars. What's impressive is the viper weighs a little more than the SLK at 3400lbs but has 500bhp, that's 145hp more than what the SLK has and yet the SLK was right there with it. Either the SLK under estimated it's hp (very likely) or the viper over inflated it's hp numbers.

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Very true Ynot, At the end both are great car's and the viper wasnt bad from Zero, I thought it would just spin the wheels and have a bad start.

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Maybe the SLK is modified too...

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Thanks for the posting. The SLK did perform better than I thought it would.

That said, I wouldn't be suprised if a SLK did beat out the Viper due to the launch. It's quite easy to launch the 55. I bet the Viper isn't nearly as easy.

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Well, considering Car & Driver's initial time for 6-speed SLK350 was exactly 1 second slower then Viper (5.2 vs. 4.2), you would think the SLK55 would be able to do it. THe only thing, in that video, the headlights look like a first generation SLK, not the second generation.

BTW, yes I know Car & Driver has revised their SLK350 0-60 to 5.3 seconds.

All I know is, the SLK55 I drove, it was hard to keep hold of the steering wheel it was pushing me back so hard. It reminded me of a test a friend would do with his big block Cobra. He'd tape a $100 bill to the passanger visor and said if you could grab it between the time he started and stopped accelerating, you could have it.

My one client traded his Viper for a much nicer riding, and much, much faster Noble M512-GTR. It's stupid-fast and light mid-engine fun. Right up until an accident and you learn it has no crashability or safety features. Oh yeah, being Ford powered, it stalled out on him and it had to be towed.

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That's a very good point, even with 345 rubbers, I've heard it still has trouble with traction, a better comparison would be with rolling starts. But now we know if viper wants to have fun with the SLK55 at the traffic light, it wouldn't be a problem.

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There's a 2006 Viper in our local car club - from a dig I can hang...for awhile. Once up to speed he just flat out walks away. They're a bitch to launch on the street which I why we can keep it close for a couple gears.

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