Originally Posted by +fireamx
Sharon's post got me to thinking when she said the Crossfire had "just" 215 HP.
Listed below are some Cubic inch, and Horse Power ratings taken from the Oct.1971 issue of Motor Trend magazine.
Keep in mind, these are all "V8" engines with 4 brl. carbs. (Except the XF of course).
1971 was also 32 years before the crossfire was produced, 26 years before the first SLK was put into production... Keeping in mind it only took 8 years to land a man on the moon... this was definitely "one SMALL step" for Mercedes.