The inappropriate badging thread

[dry run]

Nice - but no right

 

[SmartAmg]

Nice - but no right

Yep, very nice motor, as for the badge, it's doing no harm.

 

[dry run]

There's no "harm" in wearing a toupee, but I won't be sporting one any time soon

 

[rorywquin]

Nice - but no right

Yep - personalised plates and fake AMG badging.......desperation.

 

[SmartAmg]

There's no "harm" in wearing a toupee, but I won't be sporting one any time soon

Touche! or should that be toupee!

 

[Gazwould]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes...214458?hash=item5b7e4105ba:g:0f4AAOSwMrxfb7St

 

[rorywquin]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes...214458?hash=item5b7e4105ba:g:0f4AAOSwMrxfb7St

I like the price £5601.00

 

[John Laidlaw]

I like the price £5601.00

they could have the £1

 

[A.J.]

I like the price £5601.00

Could be a bit of clever bidding, somebody might have bid £5600 and were not prepared to go any more

 

[Gazwould]

Few claims of "I smoked a C63 today."

 

[Rob7seven]

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.

 

[rorywquin]

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.

 

[Blobcat]

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[Rob7seven]

Funny thing is that we can usually still tell, more or less, at which end of the price spectrum the de-badged car sits.

Around Bonn some years ago, when that was still the seat of the German government, I saw several people being driven around in a de-badged S Class. That wouldn't have fooled any terrorist worthy of the name though, they all had inch-thick bulletproof green tinted glass. The politicians if that's what they were, looked as if they were travelling in a huge fish tank.

 

[SmartAmg]

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Blimey, how much is that lot worth in Scrabble?

 

[Craiglxviii]

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That’s really going some

 

[eman]

Is it now the wheels which you can tell if the car is base or high end. I know Mercedes wheels differ in size and design depending on the level of trim

 

[BassMerc]

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.

 

[flowrider]

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.

Mercedes numbers on badges no longer match engine sizes in the newer cars.

 

[jc62b]

Like the 6.2lt, c63, you mean?