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Yep, very nice motor, as for the badge, it's doing no harm.Nice - but no right
Nice - but no right
Touche! or should that be toupee!There's no "harm" in wearing a toupee, but I won't be sporting one any time soon
they could have the £1I like the price £5601.00
I like the price £5601.00
Don't know how true this is, but many years ago, a German MB dealer told me that de-badging first became popular there due to the activities of the Bader Meinhof terrorist gang. They kidnapped a few rich industrialists to try to ransom them, and many such asked for their top spec S-Klasses to be de-badged in a vain attempt to be seen as poorer and more 'umble, and a less obvious target for kidnappers. I think de-badging has always been an MB no cost option.
Not too sure how that would have translated to Stevenage and similar places though.
Funny thing is that we can usually still tell, more or less, at which end of the price spectrum the de-badged car sits.
Blimey, how much is that lot worth in Scrabble?
That’s really going some
Mercedes numbers on badges no longer match engine sizes in the newer cars.The lady next door has a C series coupe badged C300 D. It makes a right rattly noise and I thought that can’t be a three litre. Looked it up and it’s a 2 litre. And that’s an MB factory badge. I’m getting disillusioned with Merc by the day.