Has Anyone Seen My Rear Doors???
04-05-2010, 06:57 PM
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'08 C300 Lux Barolo Red Beige Leather P2 MM 18" wheels '84 944
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According to the article, the sedan is to be built in Alabama USA and the Coupe will be built in Germany.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/2010...NEWS/100409957
http://www.autoweek.com/article/2010...NEWS/100409957
04-05-2010, 08:05 PM
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It doesn't matter where the car will be built because it's ugly as hell. 
It's like the R-class. It didn't sell in it's current form, it definitely won't sell well in it's new form.
It's like the R-class. It didn't sell in it's current form, it definitely won't sell well in it's new form.
04-07-2010, 12:01 AM
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Hmmmmm.....the business case likely found that the costs of facilitizing the U.S. plant for a fifth bodystyle (with GL, M, R, C sedan) outweighed the potential profit from currency conversions and shipping. The Alabama plant should be highly flexible, given how new it is, so the anticipated coupe volume is likely low for the US vs. ROW. In other words, we are getting the coupe because they already happen to have it for other markets and homologating the coupe after the sedan for the U.S. from Germany was relatively low incremental investment. But, don't plan to see lots of them!
04-07-2010, 12:09 AM
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If my sesquipedaliance is disheartening, please propound the appropriate synonym!
Just kidding....actually, "facilitizing" an industry term...sorry for the car biz lingo....still comes naturally after a few decades.
My wisecracks in the Ipad thread should balance me out the other way!
04-07-2010, 08:10 PM
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If my sesquipedaliance is disheartening, please propound the appropriate synonym!
Just kidding....actually, "facilitizing" an industry term...sorry for the car biz lingo....still comes naturally after a few decades.
My wisecracks in the Ipad thread should balance me out the other way!
Just kidding....actually, "facilitizing" an industry term...sorry for the car biz lingo....still comes naturally after a few decades.
My wisecracks in the Ipad thread should balance me out the other way!
Your use of homologating is also questionable. What does the FIA have to do with this?
04-07-2010, 08:17 PM
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Homologating is unrelated to FIA in this same manner. For example, when a domestic program would go through engineering changes to meet requirements of another country, that process was described as, for example, "homologated to meet Spanish requirements." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologation
I will try to do better to use more commonly understood terms! Now, let's get everyone who writes "u" and "ur" to move to "you" and "your or you're", as needed!
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