Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
I have two objections:
1) Crossfire should be plural
2) I did not think the engine qualified as "handcrafted" in the N/As, only in the SRTs. (Am I right or wrong here?)
I know I’ll get beat up for this but
Although the SRT engine is “hand crafted” it’s still essentially a line assembly engine. The term “handcrafted” is a brilliant marketing touch.
Yes, only 1 advanced tech works on each engine. But it’s still assembled with bin parts, it’s torqued down with a machine to preset specs it’s not balanced or blueprinted.
And most importantly for MB it’s a lot more cost effective to build the AMG engines separately. If they ran them down the line, they would have the full years quota built in probably less than 2 weeks. Tooling up a line for this small of a production run is expensive.
Hey, I’m no master Tech but if I can tear one down and put it back together, then it’s not that complicated and it certainly is not a superior engine. It’s just a lot faster and a lot more fun
The only people that know the N/A engines are not “technically”handcrafted is us.
I thought the badge placement was clever. Great work
Just my 2 cents.