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Originally Posted by MHaynes772
Does anyone else notice that 0 at the end of S550 looks a little off?
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Definitely looks off - maybe it's just the light combined with the camera phone??
Does anyone else notice that 0 at the end of S550 looks a little off?
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Originally Posted by jsloan01
Definitely looks off - maybe it's just the light combined with the camera phone??
I'll bet MBUSA has a whole slew of new S500s that had to have their badges re-set to S550!!
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Originally Posted by RJC
Looks like the 0 is off to me too...
If you can picture the badge in 3 dimensions as it curves around the side,
the 'S' and the '0' are in line.
The middle '5' looks to be dropped a bit too low & just a tad too close to
the first '5'.
Last edited by RichReg; Nov 27, 2005 at 01:34 PM.
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Originally Posted by RichReg
Look at the 'S' in relation to the last zero.
If you can picture the badge in 3 dimensions as it curves around the side,
the 'S' and the '0' are in line.
The middle '5' looks to be dropped a bit too low & just a tad too close to
the first '5'.
If you can picture the badge in 3 dimensions as it curves around the side,
the 'S' and the '0' are in line.
The middle '5' looks to be dropped a bit too low & just a tad too close to
the first '5'.
Its probably the one which has had a new '**** End' !!!
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I can't believe that sorry looking mass of crap would be the sat. radio antenna! That thing looks worse than the first one they tried to drill on top of my trunk. I refused and found a 2 x 2 magnet mount that you can barely see that works just fine.
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the explanation for the S and 0 being lower is simple: this is a "cool" way of writing, with certain numbers lower than the others - 5, 9, 3 - basically, numbers that have a "lower portion".
if you have a font like calibri, try typing S550, you will notice that "55" is lower than the "S" and the "0" - it's by design.
in fact, if you looked up the S-class brochure thread (somewhere in this section of the forum), the brochure is completely in that sort of font as well!
if you have a font like calibri, try typing S550, you will notice that "55" is lower than the "S" and the "0" - it's by design.
in fact, if you looked up the S-class brochure thread (somewhere in this section of the forum), the brochure is completely in that sort of font as well!
