Enough!!!
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Enough!!!
Is anyone else getting tired of CLK 208 owners bashing the new CLK? It feels like we have a bunch of BMW owners coming on to the MB forum. You've made your opinions known. Feel free to litter the CLK 208 forum with messages about how bad the new model will be. This forum should be about news, updates, pricing, pictures, and a discussion of what the new CLK will be like. No one has actually driven it. All we have are official photos. No one has touched it. I'd rather that this board have only one post a week, that contains some valuable info, such as check out the new pricing guide by MB, rather than 20 posts that all have same theme "The CLK 209 sucks"! Thanks for your time and let the flames begin.
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although, my initial reaction was of boredom/dejavu, i threw the hi-res pic of the new clk as my desktop background and forced myself to look at it...
it has since then, grown on me quite a bit. give it a chance...
it has since then, grown on me quite a bit. give it a chance...
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2004 S500 4MATIC AMG SPORT PKG. - 2002 RANGE ROVER
I just came back from my dealer and sat in the brand new SL500 Sports pkg. more....
I just came back from my dealer and sat in the brand new SL500 Sports pkg. more....
Wow... what a car.... it looks just plain amazing in person. I have been collecting all kind of pictures of the new SL 500 / SL55 for the past few months. None of the pictures do justice to the car until you see it in person.
Now, having said that. As I walked around the car to the rear, it has the same rounded look and a triangle cut red lights which resembles SLK, C and the new E class, as well as posibly the new CLK 209.
It is definitely something to get used to, but the rear and side view of the new SL seems very similar to the new CLK. Slented slope back, rounded and cut corner lights...
I do have a new CLK 500 Cabriolet on order since last June, and I am number one on the list. Until then I am extremely happy with my current CLK Cab.
I think I am going to be very happy with new CLK 209 Cabriolets as well...
Just my 2 cents...
Wow... what a car.... it looks just plain amazing in person. I have been collecting all kind of pictures of the new SL 500 / SL55 for the past few months. None of the pictures do justice to the car until you see it in person.
Now, having said that. As I walked around the car to the rear, it has the same rounded look and a triangle cut red lights which resembles SLK, C and the new E class, as well as posibly the new CLK 209.
It is definitely something to get used to, but the rear and side view of the new SL seems very similar to the new CLK. Slented slope back, rounded and cut corner lights...
I do have a new CLK 500 Cabriolet on order since last June, and I am number one on the list. Until then I am extremely happy with my current CLK Cab.
I think I am going to be very happy with new CLK 209 Cabriolets as well...
Just my 2 cents...
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Only when they are constructive and intelligent.
Unfortunately we have to take the good, bad and ugly in one fell swoop, then purge the irrelevant to arrive at a conclusion.
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CLK change
I think what some of the flack is due to, is that most true blue Mercedes-Benz buyers do not like change. The factory spoils us for 6 to 8 yrs with a body style that does not radically change, it only is perfected. We as consumers get use to that look and when the Master Engineers in Germany decide it time for a change
we do not adjust as rapidly as we should. Simply put, we are creatures of habit and that will be part of us until the end of time. So, let people have their opinions and when the time comes and they are enjoying their new body MBZ, which they were bashing some time ago, just remind them of the comments they made on how ugly their new car was when they first saw it in the magazine.
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we do not adjust as rapidly as we should. Simply put, we are creatures of habit and that will be part of us until the end of time. So, let people have their opinions and when the time comes and they are enjoying their new body MBZ, which they were bashing some time ago, just remind them of the comments they made on how ugly their new car was when they first saw it in the magazine.
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Hous of Imports wrote:
Why look back on this new generation of hybrid CLK, which should be called SL-E-C or SLEC.
I prefer to skip this generation; too much of a hodgepodge.
So, let people have their opinions and when the time comes and they are enjoying their new body MBZ, which they were bashing some time ago, just remind them of the comments they made on how ugly their new car was when they first saw it in the magazine.
I prefer to skip this generation; too much of a hodgepodge.
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Pretty insecure of pdutta to have so much angst over other opinions on a subjective topic like car looks. But even as he attempts to quelch other opinions, I still see where he is coming from.
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Originally posted by TripleCap
Pretty insecure of pdutta to have so much angst over other opinions on a subjective topic like car looks. But even as he attempts to quelch other opinions, I still see where he is coming from.
Pretty insecure of pdutta to have so much angst over other opinions on a subjective topic like car looks. But even as he attempts to quelch other opinions, I still see where he is coming from.
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Don't brag about cruising in a car that you don't even have yet, you only make yourself look stupid. As for worrying about the future of the forum, you must have no life to worry about something like that.
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But honestly, do you think it's good for the forum for every post to be nothing but bashing of the design, power, seats, air vents, etc, without anyone even having sat in the car, let alone driven it?
There are not many trained/educated & practicing industrial designers on this forum, hence everybody is a designer here.
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Originally posted by KevinV
Don't brag about cruising in a car that you don't even have yet, you only make yourself look stupid. As for worrying about the future of the forum, you must have no life to worry about something like that.
Don't brag about cruising in a car that you don't even have yet, you only make yourself look stupid. As for worrying about the future of the forum, you must have no life to worry about something like that.
Last edited by pdutta2000; Mar 6, 2002 at 12:19 PM.
