{"id":278,"date":"2014-05-30T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:08:35","slug":"drives-usher-rig-mercedes-benz-a45-amg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/drives-usher-rig-mercedes-benz-a45-amg\/","title":{"rendered":"What Drives Usher to Rig His Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>America\u2019s famous rapper and one of historic singers, Usher, is an auto enthusiast who loves to have custom cars, rigged to his specifications. He love cars so much that he often work with the mechanics to create marvelous rides for himself.<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being distinguished is fun but being an auto enthusiast like <a title=\"Usher\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Usher\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Usher<\/strong><\/a>, takes the game to a whole new level. He is not only popular for winning eight Grammy Awards, or having sold more than 65 million records, or even judging \u2018The Voice\u2019 but also for his love \u2013 or crazy love \u2013 towards his rides. All of his vehicles are mostly rigged to some extent, whether it\u2019s the <a title=\"Mercedes-Benz Engines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/eng-make.asp?part=all-mercedes-engine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>engine<\/strong><\/a>, interior or full body \u2013 he loves all of his rides so much and enjoys driving them around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His cars are not the cheap ones, all of them are pretty expensive and after the alteration made, they become even more valuable. His latest master piece is the <a title=\"Colours of Beijing Auto Show\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/colours-of-beijing-international-auto-show-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mercedes-Benz<\/strong> <\/a>A45 AMG which is wearing a yellow dress and a sporty hatchback guise. This new car of his boasts a 2.0-litre turbocharged direct-injected four-cylinder engine which is capable of 355 horsepower and generating 332 lb-ft of torque. It is backed by an <a title=\"AMG speed shift technology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes-Benz_7G-Tronic_transmission\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AMG Speed shift DCT<\/strong><\/a> seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. This car is capable of reaching 62 mph in just 4.5 seconds and a top speed of 250 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The usual Mercedes A45 AMG is AMG\u2019s smallest engine product line which has plenty of distinctions like being the very first car using a 2.0-litre turbo engine, being the first compact hatchback and being the first of AMG cars to utilise a FWD or front-wheel drive system. But this specific car has another distinction that no other Mercedes in the world has, Usher himself worked on this car with the team of mechanics at AMG workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Usher has plenty of other expensive rides in his driveway and some of them are the <a title=\"Porsche Carrera GT and Paul Walker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/paul-walker-death-saga-continues-porsche-to-face-a-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Porsche Carrera GT<\/strong><\/a>, a convertible Ferrari, MINI Cooper, Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG and SLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s famous rapper and one of historic singers, Usher, is an auto enthusiast who loves to have custom cars, rigged to his specifications. He love cars so much that he often work with the mechanics to create marvelous rides for himself. &nbsp; Being distinguished is fun but being an auto enthusiast like Usher, takes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,121,63],"tags":[123,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}