If my car is a 6.2L why does the badge say 6.3?
07-23-2010, 07:20 AM
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2004 S55 (SOLD, miss it every day), 2009 GL550
I saw an interview with someone from Mercedes and he said in Germany you get taxed on the size of your engine, rounded up. It does not matter what the decimal is, so 5.999 liters is taxed as a 6 liter and 6.0001 is taxed as a 6.1. So Mercedes' idea is, "If you're paying for a 6.3, it should say 6.3."
07-23-2010, 12:41 PM
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'14 911S (garage queen) '13 X3 (family hauler)
and the actual joke is :"My girlfriend told me to give her 12 inches and make it hurt. So I fuuucked her twice and hit her in the head with a brick."
Still funny if you ask me.
And if I remember correctly he had another one about "fuuck me silly"--so I put on a clown suit.
07-24-2010, 04:24 AM
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MB usually rounds up. The 55 AMGs are actually 5.4s yet I didn't hear anyone complain about that for the past decade. The only damn reason everyone makes a big deal about this is b/c jeremy clarkson pointed it out on the C63 episode of Top Gear lol.
None of the badges are really accurate anymore, even BMW does the same thing with their cars now.
I agree, the new 63s still being called 63s is far more ridiculous than a 6.2L being rounded up. They should be 55TT but MB marketing department is worried by lowering the numbers most customers (who aren't car people) would be bothered by paying more for the lower number.
c'est la vie
None of the badges are really accurate anymore, even BMW does the same thing with their cars now.
I agree, the new 63s still being called 63s is far more ridiculous than a 6.2L being rounded up. They should be 55TT but MB marketing department is worried by lowering the numbers most customers (who aren't car people) would be bothered by paying more for the lower number.
c'est la vie
