Actually, i've talked with a lot of the people in the past few days who have contacted me over the past month or so wanting a split, and most are now opposed to it.

 

As a fellow Canadian, I'm sure you'll know about the René Levesque speech on the eve of the 1980 separation referendum:

Si je vous ai bien compris, vous m'avez dit "à la prochaine fois"

Or "if I have understood you well, you are telling me to just wait until the next time".

You see, it's never over. We're talking about the self-determination of a group of car owners here

 

Vive Le Quebec!!!

You're right. This issue may even have a better chance of outliving that of Quebec Sovereignty!

 

SoCal and MacPhisto got banned for being bad apples? They seemed friendly to me

 

Listen to Bob young Fly padiwan. I was once influenced by the dark side but then I became Bob's apprentice and the force has been strong within me ever since.

 

Oh, Wyatt... B-E-H-A-V-E !

 

I would like to see two separate forums. I would prefer to not have to sort through the many coupe postings to find those that apply to my C320 sedan. I believe that the interests of the coupe owners are frequently quite different than those of the sedan owners. Coupe owners just like the CLK group have their own specific interests. I realize that the sedan forum will be much smaller than the coupe but that is OK.
I'm sure at least one of the coupe owners will criticize me as they did somenoe else for appearing as a new person on the forum. Actually this is more like my 50th post under a different name. At present I have a dial up with my other name and had to come up with a new name for my cable high speed service.

 

Why? I use the same username wherever I go. I use a T1 at work, DSL at home, and I am posting this from my parents's house on dial up.

 

I wholeheartedly agree. I do not mean to tick off my friends here at MBWorld, as I spend most of my time in the W211, Detailing, Gen'l Discussion and Off-Topic forums with many coupe owners.

But owning both an 2003 E-500 AND an 2003 C-320, I often wish to read and discuss items about the C-320, but have to wade through many many many threads mostly relating to the C-220 coupe or the Kompressor prior to finding my relevant topics. I don't think of the coupe as a "C" class vehicle anymore than I think of the CLK as a "C" class vehicle. I'm sure most of us don't think of the SLK as an "S" class either, right? I know, I know, not quite apples to apples.

Wagons and sedans have far more in common with one another, in the same class, due to the same engine/mechanics. Their main difference is that of body metal, not of mechanics. The coupe is a different animal entirely, to my way of thinking, despite their being from the same very basic platform.

Sheer post volume alone should be demonstrative of the need for bifurcation. 68,000 posts in this forum!!!! Even Off-Topic is a distant second at 55,000 posts (despite Vraa, Pocholin, and JamE55's attempts to the contrary ). A very distant third is the 16,000 posts in the CLK forum, and fourth place goes to the 12,000 posts in the new E (W211) forum. The other forums are in the low-to-mid 4 digits and some have yet to break a 1000! It is obvious by that and the number of moderators assigned to this forum how badly the forum split is needed!

And as support for the split, I decided to take an admittedly unscientific, but a reasonably objective and representative statistical sampling. I went to this forums Pix sticky thread, and counted the coupes and sedans for the first three (3) pages. I may have missed some here and there, or double counted, or some I couldn't tell if it were a 2 or 4 door, but by and large, I got 18 sedans, and 19 coupes. Judging from that alone, I think if the C coupes got their own forum, the C sedans would get along just fine on their own and would not dwindle away into obsolescence any time soon.

Since you all asked, I vote for seperate forums.

IMHO

EDJ

 

The C-class has many models and all of them share a large amount of parts and therefore problems. Do not separate the coupe and sedan forums. There is much common ground here that should be available in one place without having to search many forums.

 

Looks like the "yes" crowd needs to start lobbying the "I don't care" crowd to get some more votes on their side.

 

it still wouldn't be enuff votes...

 

The poll looks a bit biased: I have a feeling that the majority of Coupe owners do not want the forum split, whereas most sedan/wagon owners do. Now, since the Coupe (CL203) owners outnumber the others (W203), you get the picture...

I believe that there should be two separate polls, within each group - CL203 and W203. Then we'll see.

 

as i have voted: I don't really care either way.

even if the W203 forum is seperated into two. I'll still post on both and search for answer on both because coupe and sedan are all C-class. They share a lot of common problems and solutions.

 

That was my thinking as well. I think that your idea on splitting up the poll makes sense, which is why it'll never happen.

 

If we have two seperate polls, how would that serve the W203 community as a whole? One minute everyone is against splitting the forums, the next, they want separate polls??? This poll is designed to serve the current w203 forum, and help decide whether it should be split based on the results of the poll and users comments. I don't see the need for having a poll for coupe owners and a poll for sedan owners. Especially when most of the coupe owners who first asked for the split now asking us to keep the forums together.

 

Very simple - if you conduct two polls, and in case if *either* group (coupe or sedan/wagon) overwhelmingly votes for the split - then go ahead and split! Otherwise the group that voted "for" would (rightfully) consider their voices ignored.

 

Having two polls is just simply not feasible, there is no way to make it so only coupe owners or only sedan owners could vote on their respective polls.

 

But even if one group overwhelmingly voted for a split, it wouldn't necessary reflect the majority of the present w203 forum. Ultimately, it is the majority (with respect to how close the minority) is that should have the greatest imput. This is just my opinion.

 

Here:

[ ] Split (I own a C coupe)
[ ] Don't spilt (I own a C coupe)
[ ] Split (I own a C sedan/wagon)
[ ] Don't split (I own a C sedan/wagon)
[ ] I don't care

 

ROFLMAO!!!!!

But seriously, I personally do not think seperate polls makes sense. We need to address the 203 community as a whole. The problem with splitting the poll is that we don't have an equal amount of coupe and sedan owners.

Example:

Coupe owners = 10 - 9 vote for split, 1 stay togeather
Sedan owners = 100 - 40 vote for split, 60 vote to stay together

Vadim, based on your proposal, we should split the forum because one group (coupe in my example) overwhelmingly voted to split, and sedan barely voted to stay together.

But add the numbers up, and you have 49 voting for a split, and 61 to stay together. The majority still wants unity, and that is more important than a minority that wants to split.

Am I making any sense?

 

Let's say this poll is an election for a Congressional district. Let's say the Coupe owners are Democrats, and the Sedan/Wagon owners are Republicans.

Is the election biased because there are more Democrats in the district than Republicans? Of couse not. They are all part of the community. If you believe other wise, I suppose we should force people to move until there are equal amounts of Democrats and Republicans in all Congressional districts.

Should there be separate elections for Democrats and Republicans? Don't be stupid.

 

How about retaining the C203 forum as there is much of interest to all in the threads, but put up three subsets for Coupe, Sedan, Wagon for posts unique to those configurations. Since the population of the C-series is larger than any of the the model lines and generates the most discussion interest this seems logical.

 

I'm thinking that when the C230K sedan makes it's appearance that it's owners are going to be more "Coupe-like" in attitude (younger, interested in mods, etc.).

I think that some of the sedan owners who don't like this type of post will still be inundated with these threads. And coupe owners who don't like the sedan posts will still have to wade through a lot of these because the C230K sedan owners looking for mod-specific information will probably post primarily in the C-coupe forum as the motors will be the same.

Regards, BT

 

Let's not forget that the Democrats and Republicans both choose their best candidate, and then votes are cast in the elections between the two. We are already at that point here. You have been presented with two choices, not 20, there is no need for multiple polls. Forum members are more than welcome to post what car they have, and how they voted.