03 CLK320 vs. 03 Accord Coupe V6
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Originally posted by AMGDood
i think you guys all forgot the main reason why anyone would chose the clk over the accord. the new accord is FUGLY.
i think you guys all forgot the main reason why anyone would chose the clk over the accord. the new accord is FUGLY.
Anyone know why there's 2 different Accords?
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Us Americans are too overweight to fit in the Euro/ Jap versions. There is not enough room to seat our big fat ***.
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Man...imagine rolling into a grand hotel driveway...
i'd do it the CLK, i mean, that car just fricken looks good. 320, 430, 55, doesn't matter, the chassis and style of the car just looks niiiicccccce.
i'd do it the CLK, i mean, that car just fricken looks good. 320, 430, 55, doesn't matter, the chassis and style of the car just looks niiiicccccce.
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the new accord coupe is nice in spec but i simply dont like the look. its a great far cry from previous accord (even the last coupe) again in spec. CLK look classy and that timeless look to it....and yes you're paying for the MB name plate. I've said it before and will say it again....you'll get more attention in a $25k+ C230 coupe/hatchback then in an $27k+ accord coupe....trust me.
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From: Rowland Hts
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Just went to Penske the other day and saw a CLK500 with sport package, which looks exactly like the CLK55. The car looks so...nice. The brochures don't do it justice. The car looks well balanced with the power to match it. Motor Trend reports it of running 13.99 sec to the quarter. No Accord in the world can touch any CLKs; not even the older model CLK and definely not the new. The Accord looks so average. Does is look better than the G35 sedan or the TL Type S? I don't think so.
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Guys enough with the *****in. Listen I bought my first new car and it is a 2003 C230K. Granted it aint the fastest car at that price. Hell I nearly bought a '97 Boxster for the same amount. Much faster and Handles like a dream. Back to the point. It all makes a diffrence, when someone asks me which car is yours and all I have to say is MERCEDES. Jaws drop and girls' ears rise to attention. Or how about just laying that disctinctive key with the nice 3 pointed star on the table at a meeting. As opposed to an everyday key.
Mercedes is Style, name, luxury and stability. It is a smart decision car, a good investment and best of all I love the 3 pointed star staring me in the face on my steering wheel. Mercedes is a legacy that many car makers wish they had. The engineering is is amazing. What more can I ask for in a car, unless I am trying to make racing a living I don't need the fastest car on the block. At least not right this minute. Maybe my next car will be 1997 Porsche Turbo S. Then I will talk **** to everyone and have bragging rights.
Just my $0.02.
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Mercedes is Style, name, luxury and stability. It is a smart decision car, a good investment and best of all I love the 3 pointed star staring me in the face on my steering wheel. Mercedes is a legacy that many car makers wish they had. The engineering is is amazing. What more can I ask for in a car, unless I am trying to make racing a living I don't need the fastest car on the block. At least not right this minute. Maybe my next car will be 1997 Porsche Turbo S. Then I will talk **** to everyone and have bragging rights.
Just my $0.02.
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Originally posted by DJ Kyro
Guys enough with the *****in. Listen I bought my first new car and it is a 2003 C230K. Granted it aint the fastest car at that price. Hell I nearly bought a '97 Boxster for the same amount. Much faster and Handles like a dream. Back to the point. It all makes a diffrence, when someone asks me which car is yours and all I have to say is MERCEDES. Jaws drop and girls' ears rise to attention. Or how about just laying that disctinctive key with the nice 3 pointed star on the table at a meeting. As opposed to an everyday key.
Mercedes is Style, name, luxury and stability. It is a smart decision car, a good investment and best of all I love the 3 pointed star staring me in the face on my steering wheel. Mercedes is a legacy that many car makers wish they had. The engineering is is amazing. What more can I ask for in a car, unless I am trying to make racing a living I don't need the fastest car on the block. At least not right this minute. Maybe my next car will be 1997 Porsche Turbo S. Then I will talk **** to everyone and have bragging rights.
Just my $0.02.
DJ Kyro
Guys enough with the *****in. Listen I bought my first new car and it is a 2003 C230K. Granted it aint the fastest car at that price. Hell I nearly bought a '97 Boxster for the same amount. Much faster and Handles like a dream. Back to the point. It all makes a diffrence, when someone asks me which car is yours and all I have to say is MERCEDES. Jaws drop and girls' ears rise to attention. Or how about just laying that disctinctive key with the nice 3 pointed star on the table at a meeting. As opposed to an everyday key.
Mercedes is Style, name, luxury and stability. It is a smart decision car, a good investment and best of all I love the 3 pointed star staring me in the face on my steering wheel. Mercedes is a legacy that many car makers wish they had. The engineering is is amazing. What more can I ask for in a car, unless I am trying to make racing a living I don't need the fastest car on the block. At least not right this minute. Maybe my next car will be 1997 Porsche Turbo S. Then I will talk **** to everyone and have bragging rights.
Just my $0.02.
DJ Kyro
well said DJ Kyro, well said!
btw.. also benz makes cars that just have no other competitors! i mean, what cars out there compete with the SL500.. none! .. i mean that for a fact! NONE!
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Re: Taylor192
Originally posted by JJunkins
I would rather spend $70,000 soupin up a Honda Accord V6 coupe than buy a CLK55. It would be much faster and definitely more reliable.
I would rather spend $70,000 soupin up a Honda Accord V6 coupe than buy a CLK55. It would be much faster and definitely more reliable.
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when i buy an MB, i'd like to pay for more than just the engine. i pay for the whole car, not just from the front bumper to the windshield. it's pretty pathetic if someone buys an MB to drag race. that's not what they're built for.
does anyone here actually know what goes on underneath the skin of an MB. and i'm not talking about the engine. has anyone here heard of CAN (Controller Area Network). this is just one example of the cutting edge technology that MB has been putting in their cars (starting with the S-class) for years that all other Japanese and American auto makers are just now starting to use.
when you buy an MB, you don't pay for just what's under the hood but that's the first thing people ask when you say you bought a new car, what engine does it have. i'm pretty sure MB is a LUXURY line. you wanna spend alot of money on a car that will kicks an Accord's ***, buy a porsche.
this whole thing is so freakin stupid. when you compare two cars overall (especially when talking price), you'd better talk about more than just the *** engines. if you wanna talk 0-60 and all that, then yes talk engines. but to say that an accord compares to an MB, that's ridiculous. if MB wanted to build a S***Y car with a big, loud, powerful engine (cough cough, rustang), then it would be nice and cheap like everything else on the road, but boy would it be fast, at least in a straight line.
fortunately, MB does makes cars that do go VERY fast. and fortunately, the rest of the car is high quality too. but you have to pay for this. you go buy your powerful engine, i'd like to buy a car.
does anyone here actually know what goes on underneath the skin of an MB. and i'm not talking about the engine. has anyone here heard of CAN (Controller Area Network). this is just one example of the cutting edge technology that MB has been putting in their cars (starting with the S-class) for years that all other Japanese and American auto makers are just now starting to use.
when you buy an MB, you don't pay for just what's under the hood but that's the first thing people ask when you say you bought a new car, what engine does it have. i'm pretty sure MB is a LUXURY line. you wanna spend alot of money on a car that will kicks an Accord's ***, buy a porsche.
this whole thing is so freakin stupid. when you compare two cars overall (especially when talking price), you'd better talk about more than just the *** engines. if you wanna talk 0-60 and all that, then yes talk engines. but to say that an accord compares to an MB, that's ridiculous. if MB wanted to build a S***Y car with a big, loud, powerful engine (cough cough, rustang), then it would be nice and cheap like everything else on the road, but boy would it be fast, at least in a straight line.
fortunately, MB does makes cars that do go VERY fast. and fortunately, the rest of the car is high quality too. but you have to pay for this. you go buy your powerful engine, i'd like to buy a car.
Last edited by truelove; Dec 12, 2002 at 09:44 AM.
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Re: Re: Taylor192
Originally posted by AndrewK
Are you writing this from the mental hospital?
Are you writing this from the mental hospital?
Typical ricer mentality. Picture him driving the king ricer with all 70K laid out...sitting at a red light. The car has about a half inch of ground clearance and rubs when he shifts. Each sh*tpipe is large enough to roll a canteloupe inside and have it roll back out and the thing sounds like it has no muffler. Honda spends hundreds of millions over the last 50 years to make the cars quiet, and these stupid ricer boys pay big bucks to have the car make noise - since they are slow.
You can probably only see the top of his lil square head...stickers all over the car along with fake giant "type R" lettering and some asian stickers for effect- "yo dats my gang affiliation". Pretty blue and red gauges on the A pillar.
When you wreck your 70K civic from driving like an as*hole ricer boy, guess what the insurance co is gonna give you - if you even have insurance - thats right, book value for a civic. There's a reason fools like that can't afford MBs. Better you spend your money doing mods for a ricer than ever buying a real car anyway.
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speed isn't everything...who the hell ran a Merc CLK320 against a AV6??? I mean I have a 3.2CLS and yeah its in the same category as the CLK320 but wtf? AV6? Thats like apples and oranges. Luxury car vs Econo car....ugh. idiots
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[QUOTE=JJunkins] You need to take a break.
You don't understand, again. Taylor, I do not like Hondas but after my experience with Mercedes I am beginning to think somethings wrong. I do like Honda commercial self-propelled lawn mowers. My stuff makes perfect sense. For $70K I would rather take the Honda over the CLK55, even though I do not like them but its worth it after all the fun wrench-time and testing and buying $30,000 of cool aftermarket crap. Wouldn't you do that?
[QUOTE]
"Fun Wrench-time?" - Hold my drink, B!tch!
You're a fool to invest $30,000 into a Front-Wheel Drive, rubber-band tranny, aluminum coke-can car like the Accord. Do yourself a favor, keep the accord STOCK and save the $30,000. Had you put that $30,000 at the time you wrote this 2 years ago and bought a house, especially here in So Cal, you would have had a 300% return on that $30K.
Second, in regards to quality, note that MLs are made in Alabama. The quality is less than those mercedes built in Germany.
You don't understand, again. Taylor, I do not like Hondas but after my experience with Mercedes I am beginning to think somethings wrong. I do like Honda commercial self-propelled lawn mowers. My stuff makes perfect sense. For $70K I would rather take the Honda over the CLK55, even though I do not like them but its worth it after all the fun wrench-time and testing and buying $30,000 of cool aftermarket crap. Wouldn't you do that?
[QUOTE]
"Fun Wrench-time?" - Hold my drink, B!tch!
You're a fool to invest $30,000 into a Front-Wheel Drive, rubber-band tranny, aluminum coke-can car like the Accord. Do yourself a favor, keep the accord STOCK and save the $30,000. Had you put that $30,000 at the time you wrote this 2 years ago and bought a house, especially here in So Cal, you would have had a 300% return on that $30K.
Second, in regards to quality, note that MLs are made in Alabama. The quality is less than those mercedes built in Germany.
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I am driving a 2003 CLK320. What am i thinking???
- CLK is much higher class, it's for showing off your ability.
- Accord? Is another affortable coupe for anyone.
- CLK gets look on the street.
- Accord? Just an ordinary coupe on the road, no one cares.
- Girls love CLK because of BENZ, people look at them when all windows are rolled down.
- Girls hate Accord. Why? because no one look at them, no attention.
- CLK makes you feel good on the road, different from anyone.
- Accord? It is boring to drive, no looks, no class, nothing at all.
-BENZ is for upper class people in the country $$$
-Honda? is for normal and lower class people in the country
The CLK picks up girls/women much faster than the Accord
=
Which means more time to spend on the bed to enjoy the woman
By the time when you are still waiting with your 23K coupe, we are already on OUR way to the 5th round and closer to the victory of the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know what i am say
P.S Kids with Accord coupe? The 240hp is noting, you should put a big turbo to gain back the time you have lost, this is what the aftermarket parts for.
- CLK is much higher class, it's for showing off your ability.
- Accord? Is another affortable coupe for anyone.
- CLK gets look on the street.
- Accord? Just an ordinary coupe on the road, no one cares.
- Girls love CLK because of BENZ, people look at them when all windows are rolled down.
- Girls hate Accord. Why? because no one look at them, no attention.
- CLK makes you feel good on the road, different from anyone.
- Accord? It is boring to drive, no looks, no class, nothing at all.
-BENZ is for upper class people in the country $$$
-Honda? is for normal and lower class people in the country
The CLK picks up girls/women much faster than the Accord
=
Which means more time to spend on the bed to enjoy the woman
By the time when you are still waiting with your 23K coupe, we are already on OUR way to the 5th round and closer to the victory of the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know what i am say
P.S Kids with Accord coupe? The 240hp is noting, you should put a big turbo to gain back the time you have lost, this is what the aftermarket parts for.
Last edited by CLKoto; Sep 14, 2004 at 03:31 AM.
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Originally Posted by JJunkins
As a matter of fact I do drive a Mercedes. 2000 ML320. I will never own another MB ever.
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are u absolutly nuts Jjunkins?!!! compare the class of a MB to a honda. U can't because honda doesn't have **** on MB. Sure they are cheap and can go fast with some tune ups but then again ur driving a honda. and at higher speeds german cars will forever beats japanese cars. More reliable in the driving aspect and sturdy/firmly built to drive in any condition. not to mention all hondas are FWD except the s2000 which takes the fun out of a car. no real power slides or drifts
