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C43 AMG. Should be self explanatory.

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Old 07-26-2019, 03:07 PM
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C43 AMG. Should be self explanatory.

Is anyone besides me annoyed that MB chose to recycle the C43 AMG moniker for no compelling reason? I don’t think the “New” car is 43 anything, but the name plate had value. Another example of the marketing takeover of a fine engineering / technical company since the disaster that was the Chrysler t@ke over/under... Join Apple, Boeing and many others.
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Originally Posted by silverc4s
Is anyone besides me annoyed that MB chose to recycle the C43 AMG moniker for no compelling reason? I don’t think the “New” car is 43 anything, but the name plate had value. Another example of the marketing takeover of a fine engineering / technical company since the disaster that was the Chrysler t@ke over/under... Join Apple, Boeing and many others.
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you're a couple years late to be jumping on that bandwagon bud. hell ive seen people on mbworld hate on our W202 "real" C43 AMG's because they were stock 430 blocks with hot heads and cams only vs a "real" AMG like a C36 with a machined block. Both 43's are nice cars and i dont really see a reason for all the hate they get
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Originally Posted by brad_c43
you're a couple years late to be jumping on that bandwagon bud. hell ive seen people on mbworld hate on our W202 "real" C43 AMG's because they were stock 430 blocks with hot heads and cams only vs a "real" AMG like a C36 with a machined block. Both 43's are nice cars and i dont really see a reason for all the hate they get
I agree also. Was pissed off when the new C43 came out, but guess that's life and we need to live with it. Perhaps MB could have called the newer one C43.1

On a side note, our engines don't have the name of the builder on it, but wasn't pissed off when the W203 started having the name tag. That was also a reason the OCI club was started

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