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Do you guys and gals have an emblem under the hood with the name of a person who built your engine for you?
Mine has it and also has Special edition tag.
anyone know what is so special? Does your car says special?
that's an ebay decal that goes on the dashboard, or some times phone cases, the w202 AMG was made before Mercedes had full ownership of AMG so they never had amg workers doing that, it was just amg made.
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12' W204 C63 AMG coupe "T-Rex", 12' W451 Smart Fortwo Pulse (99' W202 C43 AMG + Ultima Can-Am sold)
The badge one finds under the hood was introduced with the w203 and onwards, if I'm not mistaken. It applied only to the guy who manufactured the engine.
As a reminder, the C36 was assembled in Affalterbach. On the otherhand, the C43 was assembled on the Bremen production line with parts (engine and sundry items) supplied by AMG.
The badge one finds under the hood was introduced with the w203 and onwards, if I'm not mistaken. It applied only to the guy who manufactured the engine.
As a reminder, the C36 was assembled in Affalterbach. On the otherhand, the C43 was assembled on the Bremen production line with parts (engine and sundry items) supplied by AMG.
I thought it was the other way around.
c36 was a c280 taken off the line and converted to a c36 while the 43 was fully assembled from scratch at AMG.
The story is opposite for the motors. the 3.6 m104 was fully assembled by amg while the m113 was pulled from a e430 and modified
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12' W204 C63 AMG coupe "T-Rex", 12' W451 Smart Fortwo Pulse (99' W202 C43 AMG + Ultima Can-Am sold)
Originally Posted by PJmak
I thought it was the other way around.
c36 was a c280 taken off the line and converted to a c36 while the 43 was fully assembled from scratch at AMG.
The story is opposite for the motors. the 3.6 m104 was fully assembled by amg while the m113 was pulled from a e430 and modified
I have to disagree slightly
Yes the 280 was pulled from the production line and assembled/modified to C36 status at Affalterbach. The c43 was never assembled at Affalterbach but remained on the production line in Bremen.
Regarding the engine, the M113 was probably sent from the engine production line to Affalterbach to receive upgraded cams, possibly also modified cylinder heads (intake manifolds? uncertain) and sent to Bremen to be assembled to the chassis.
This info was confirmed when I visited Mother-ship in 2012
Appreciate insightful thoughts on this all.
I was under the impression that Benz continued to do hand built engines post Amg buyout.
Sucks as I thought all Amg cars before 2001 or so were hand built.
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