When we say diesel, you probably think of black smoke billowing out the top of a truck’s exhaust stack, or the workhorse Cummins diesel that tows like a train. You probably don’t think of sports cars and performance, but back in the 1970s, Mercedes-Benz wanted to change that. Their solution? Creating an engineering test bed that would smash speed records and prove to everyone that this fuel type was the future.
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