NY C32

I was at MB-Manhattan today and saw this (sorry about the crappy camera phone quality)...

Is this anyones on MBWorld? If so, you should be ashamed of yourself!

If I see a non-AMG that has an AMG badge, I usually don't care especially if they have any AMG enhancements. But when someone completely rebadges their MB and try to pass it off as an entirely different veicle, I gotta say something.

I hope everytime you drive this thing and you see a real ML55, you shrink in your seat because you look like an idiot.

PS- All the staff at the service dept think your an idiot too

S-Clusiv

They suck.

MerzadY_BoY

wow why do you care so much as to take pictures and post this on the web? Yeah, he may have a fake, but what you did was just as lame if not more.

BiTurboBenz

Because anyone who puts an AMG badge on a non-AMG model is a loser and a poser. People like the owner of the above white ML-class need to be harrassed in public view. Either spend the $$$ and get an AMG or face the fact that you car will never, ever be one. You are only lying to yourself, the only people who know what an ML55 is will definitely know it is fake. On top of that, you are embarrassing all true AMG drivers.

TO ALL WANNABE AMG DRIVERS: GET A LIFE

Militant-Grunt

WoW... What a poser.. I really hate when people do that...

x-tian-230k

I don't think its the fact that he put AMG as one of the badges. I think the poser part is the ML55... its a ML320 but trying to pawn it off as a 55... anyways thats just my opinion....

BklynBenz

werd, i see **** like that all the time all over NYC as im sure the rest of you ny'ers do. i think one of the more popular nyc rebadge is the w140 s320 owners who rebadge their cars s600

NY C32

Please explain how that makes me more lame

Did you recently move from AZ to NY and buy a white ML320 then forget to change your profile?

MerzadY_BoY

How it bothers YOU what other people does with their STUFF. How you took the initiative to take pictures and blast him online because it bothers you that much. If the owner is happy with it, why do you care. I am not condoning rebadgeing, but I don't go on mood swings if someone does either.

Thericker

Well put....I think it really erks AMG owners just a little to much they hate the idea that anybody can slap a 55 whatever on the back of there ride and fool a large amount of the public that don't know what really seperates the real deal from just a few little letters...It's a hot topic continuously debated, I find the pictures amusing at best... I guess what it really boils down to is...Say you own a Lambo, or Ferrari, You get notoriety by just having the base model...But the current line up of AMG models Mercedes has out looks very similar to entry level models in almost all classes...So You could have a guy buy a used 03' SL500 w/**** load of miles for 45k-50k and pass it off as say an SL65..now most trained eyes like ours would catch it in a sec...But not the average joe or posssibly the classic gold giggin' hoe, I'd say the last one would be poetic justice...Some gold digger gettin played You know what's really funny? the ML class is virtually worthless right now...I was just looking on Autotrader.com and a ligit ML55 AMG w/50,000 miles is going for a measly 25, Grand that one pictured above must be worth like 10, Grand

NY C32

Mood swings? Since when does snapping a couple of pics and posting them online define mood swings? If it bothered me as much as you think, I would've NOT blocked out his license plate and/or just debadged the thing myself.

If you had an AMG, you would understand. It's only non-AMG owners that defend people like this.

The $10 Rolex watches in Chinatown aren't real nor are the $20 Louis Vuitton bags yet there are idiots that buy them and try to pass them off as they are until someone calls them out. Why??? Because there are people out there that paid for the real thing and don't want to be confused with those that only pretend to.

PS- To me, the fact that you defend this means you condone it.

BklynBenz

well said, agree 100%

TruE320Ridah14

might as well put a type-R or GT-R badge on too

Militant-Grunt

You frogot about the S badge and the M badge on there too..

Highend

I agree gimme his plates and i'll run them and we can all send him a letter asking if he would please take the AMG badges off.

NOw that i think about it, he might have AMG floor mats......................

55fanatic

What weak *** dude trying to play off his 320 as a 55. Most people would see or better yet HEAR the difference when the car is driving down the road. I came up on one like this on the Highway once upon a time and played with him... raced him but matched his speed the whole way to give him the feeling he might actually win and then I dropped the hammer and took off, pulled in to a gas station and the kid was like so thats what a 55 does.

PS thanks to everyone for stopping by the ML55 section, this is the most action we have seen in months

Ricker: Your right, the W163s are pretty worthless right now. When I got my ML55 in 03 my MY 00ML55 was worth 43k, now its worth in the vicinity of 21k maybe less. JUST SAD

silk32

thats bad but not as bad what i saw yesterday a E430 AMG

at least that guy put 55

also it was some guido fat kid with a fake rolex getting out.. yelled "dip *****" while walking by..

hanniep

it always amazes me to see anyone re badge their auto, why? to me I want the experience of owning an original. I drove a 320 and it was nice but nothing compared to my 55.

vraa

Heh, just the talk of the Rolex's kinda cracked me up.
I have a few fake ones

hanniep

True, me too, but a want to be AMG imposter sooner or later someone will challenge him or want to see the engine and then what? oops!

Chi500

I hate seeing that too. Don't even try to defend it. The biggest idiot I've seen was a w124 E-class that had an S600 badge on it.

superduper

If you were that close to the car, why didnt you just pull the letters off since it bothers you so much. LOL

Vendetta

Heh - I saw yesterday a totally wigged out CLK 430 with an AMG badge right next to the "430." And it didn't stop there... he had "AMG BENZ" in that ridiculous Old English looking font splayed across his rear windshield.

It gets better. He actually had a vanity license plate that read "AMG BENZ" - as if he hadn't already clearly established his poserhood.

Funny, I've got AMG floormats in my '01 CL600. Can I rebadge my car as a CL65 now? Haaa! I threw 'em under a couch in my house. I bought a used set of regular Mercedes-Benz mats which I actually use instead.

I don't hate on the rebadgers, I think it's kinda funny in that pathetic sorta way. Tell me you don't get side to side when you see one and shoot 'em an "awwww... you don't know any better" look, too. That's right before you drop the hammer, of course.

-V

55fanatic

I had two fake tags that I got from NYC in Junior high.... They were the real honest to goodness genuine fakes... they were actually descent watches. then Sophmore year in college got the real deal and whoah... the weight on them is just a tad different, lol

vraa

Actually, when you come visit, you should check out one of the 'fakes' I have.
I swear, it almost feels as heavy and real as daddy's.

Not as heavy as some of my Fossil's though (gosh I love those watches, cheap and they last forever).