GTI WR6

I won't take too much of your time

Recently, a friend's friend bought an S350 rebadged as S55 AMG.

Here are the pics that my friend took with his phone:















I would like to know what else an S55 AMG has that and S350 doesn't (interior and exterior features).

Any thoughts and comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.

vraa

Um.
A 5.4L Supercharged engine that makes about 500hp and more than 500lb-ft torque.

Oh but other than that....

BTW: is that in India?

GTI WR6

hmm....I wasn't clear before....I was looking for visible differences between the 2.

It's in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

MBZFAN55

Is this real ?

GTI WR6

try to be more specific next time.

please.

AMGfan

Why did your friend feel the need to rebadge it? It's like having ***** envy and stuffing your pants with a sock...

If he wants to re-sell it as a AMG model, then he is an ***...If he isn't trying to sell it, then I apologize for calling him an ***...I just feel sorry for him if he feels the need to make into something it isn't. The car is beautiful, though.

Just my .02.

Lov2xlr8

i dont think you will have too many people here happy about what your friend's friend did. most people here (me too) dont like when people make like they have something they dont.

nothing against you BTW.

vraa

That's why the license plate looked kinda familair.

GTI WR6

That person who bought the car is now qualified as one of the biggest fools in the country by doing what he did. Anyone can just pop the hood and prove that he is a d***. There are S500's with AMG body kits in my country and that is justifiable. This one also seems to have the body kit. So the AMG badge is justifiable. But who is trying to fool with the S55 badge? Its simply annoying.

I'll just wait and see if any true car enthusiast takes that badge off somehow.

AMG_Mike

G Unit

Where do we start? There are so many things that are different it would take too long to list.

From what I can see on the pics,

That car only as 2 exhausts, 55 has 4 (2003 onwards).
That doesn't have the amg front, rear bumpers and sideskirts
No AMG brake system
No comand system
wooden steering wheel
wooden gear knob
no 200mph readout
no amg logo on the rev counter
no cooling systems visible from the front that the 55 has and the 350 doesn't

Also the fact that he has taken a prefacelift W220 and has fitted facelift lights, yet still keeps the dual exhausts that would have been present on the prefaclift s55.

Also that can't be a S350 since it was only released after the facelift model iirc?

AMG_Mike

AMG seats????

ndabunka

Maybe his buddy simply didn't do his homework and bought this as a S55 and is simply looking for other tell-tale signs he should have noticed. If that is the case, then I think I can speak for the board in saying that "we are sorry your buddy was taken advantage of" and hope that he can get his funds back due to the obvious fraud. If he is simply trying to make it look EVEN more like an authentic S55 then HE IS SCUM OF THE EARTH and deserves what he gets. By the way, there is one TRUE way to identify the car as an authentic S55 without having to see the car in person.... just check out the VIN #.

SJRAMROD

Exactly right!

ajayz

I didn't know they made W220s without COMAND.
Heh, learn something new everyday.

CynCarvin32

if u cant afford a W220 with command u need to not even bother faking the funk.

and if you want to fake it... put the freaking amg badge in the right spot. that thing is at least 2 inches to high.

tips look fake, car looks like carp , and i still cant imagine a W220 without command -- i know it exists but i though anyone with the $$ to get one checked that option box

put S350 back on the rear.

FThornton666

With the money spent to do all the mods, he might as well just buy an S55.

ajayz

Hmm, that's a pre-facelift S-Class. Looks like they only bothered switching out the headlights and taillights to give it the newer facelifted look. Doesn't that mean it's a S320 instead of a S350?

timoc42

I agree that this guy can be a **** for trying to fake an S350 into an S55.

But just putting another angle on this thing is... how much is a S350 over there costs?
Just imagine, in other parts of Asia, say Singapore, a S350 will cost you about S$350,000 , more than US$210,000.
What can that buy you here? S65 + many mods, or 'almost' 2 S55.

I have a good feeling that it will about the same, or 'near' the price of a S55 in USA. This is of course, assuming that this is bought at the official benz dealer with the import taxes fully paid.
If its smuggled in, then its another story.

mand

i was about to say the same thing ricky, Ricky personal question, are you east indian, i've been wondering and never got an answer...lol

mand

try adding a V8 Kompresser badge, and the amg ventilated seats

vraa

North. Dad is from a small town called Lakunpur and mom is from Rothak.

I'm straight Texan.

schwarz

those switches dont look like a facelifted S350 switches. looks to me like a pre-03 s-class with a 6 cyl. which means S320??

AMG2GO

If you want to "update" your car, and you don't like the fact that its a lower model, and don't want others to know it, then strip the badge. Don't put on something it is not. To anyone that knows the car, the owner of this car just comes off as a complete moron.... does he like looking like a moron? because that is all he is going to look like to anyone knowledgable. Tell him to debadge the whole thing. Its better to not tell the truth than to lie.

mand

lol, My dad is from Jalandhar, in a village called Mand Pind, and my moms from a village called Jindiala thats also in jalandhar. Im straight Canadian