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Originally posted by GM_Guy81@Jul 29 2004, 07:14 PM
Am I the only one who thinks its a little odd that a german owned american car company is bringing out a car that sounds almost identical to WW2 German fighter aircraft in the Luftwaffe? *Edit* Im not anti-german in anyway. I can speak the language and studied abroad there, Im also part german. But, a little historical perspective is always fun. */edit*
Cars name: ME-412
German Fighters from WW2:
ME-109
ME-110
ME-262
Of course, the ME in these stands for Messerschmitt, not mid engine, but c'mon.
I'm not saying this is good, bad or anything else. Just interesting :P
ME-262: Worlds first operational jet fighter.
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It's supposed to go over 240mph, and it's styling is more fighter-jet than car...
Anyway the Messerschmitts were usually better than the Allied planes by a long shot (the P-51 came close), but they didn't have enough manpower to build them quickly.
Kinda like the Panzer Tigers vs. Russian T-34 tanks, the Russian T-34 was a total POS especially compared to the Tiger, the average Tiger would usually take out ten T-34's in it's life, but there were 15 times as many T-34's as Tigers
