How do you spot a re-badger?
#26
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Pretend what...I have some AMG parts and the badge signifies that. The AMG badge does not necessarily signify the engine...the number following the model designation does (ex. SL73 AMG = 7.3 Litre Motor).
Here's a photo of my car (excuse the pic the car is very dirty)...tell me if you honestly believe it will look better if it doesn't say SL600 AMG.
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I really don't understand why some of you guys get so annoyed. I really wouldn't mind if someone badged their SL320 as a 600.
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Here's a photo of my car (excuse the pic the car is very dirty)...tell me if you honestly believe it will look better if it doesn't say SL600 AMG.
![](http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/803/p10100032rv.jpg)
I really don't understand why some of you guys get so annoyed. I really wouldn't mind if someone badged their SL320 as a 600.
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Originally Posted by HLG600
I really don't understand why some of you guys get so annoyed. I really wouldn't mind if someone badged their SL320 as a 600.
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But if you have a SL600 and badge it as a SL320, that's a lot more tolerable, but somewhat silly. I'd do it if I were working on a true sleeper.
#28
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Originally Posted by HLG600
Jesus, you guys really take this personally don't you... Am I causing an imbalance in nature?
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#29
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Originally Posted by locket
A few extra classes in English grammer, and spelling would be better for you.
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#30
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Originally Posted by Torquey55
Dude recommends spelling and grammar classes & spells grammar wrong. What a tool.
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#31
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Originally Posted by HLG600
Pretend what...I have some AMG parts and the badge signifies that. The AMG badge does not necessarily signify the engine...the number following the model designation does (ex. SL73 AMG = 7.3 Litre Motor).
Here's a photo of my car (excuse the pic the car is very dirty)...tell me if you honestly believe it will look better if it doesn't say SL600 AMG.
![](http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/803/p10100032rv.jpg)
I really don't understand why some of you guys get so annoyed. I really wouldn't mind if someone badged their SL320 as a 600.
Regards
Here's a photo of my car (excuse the pic the car is very dirty)...tell me if you honestly believe it will look better if it doesn't say SL600 AMG.
![](http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/803/p10100032rv.jpg)
I really don't understand why some of you guys get so annoyed. I really wouldn't mind if someone badged their SL320 as a 600.
Regards
I thought that in certain years of your generation of SL class, the "sport" models (or perhaps an uber-sport AMG model) did feature the AMG badging, since i've seen it on a few of them in LA. It never gave me pause before. No reason for it to now.
I don't think anyone here is per se bothered or torched up about rebadging -- we're not talking about some lame cartoons in the funny pages, after all. But it's the source of amusement/bemusement when a youngster who's put himself into an admirable ride like, say, an e320 (even without the $5-8k "appearance package") feels the need to go the extra mile and add the AMG badges. Still, I take my hat off to 'em: it's a great thing to be passionate and have dreams/ambitions.
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edit) might i add that the totally blacked out look is really cool!!! i had the same thing going on with a '92 190E i owned for a year; black w/ tint, smoked euro head- and cornering lamps and dark smoked taillamps. if the tranny hadn't started sounding like a bull in heat and the engine leaking oil like ol' faithful, i'd still be driving that thing today...
Last edited by vixapphire; 02-12-2006 at 10:29 PM.
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Originally Posted by vixapphire
...might i add that the totally blacked out look is really cool!!! i had the same thing going on with a '92 190E i owned for a year; black w/ tint, smoked euro head- and cornering lamps and dark smoked taillamps. if the tranny hadn't started sounding like a bull in heat and the engine leaking oil like ol' faithful, i'd still be driving that thing today...
(Sorry your ride died...from what you said, it sounded like a cool car.)
#34
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yeah; that '92 was a way cool car once i got all those appearance updates on there. i was shopping a set of AMG monoblocks (a la the '01/02 e55, etc.) to throw on, and had a line on a lowering kit to complete the whole effect... then the mechanicals started to signal big money coming (or in this case "going") soon and the rush to sell was on!
since then i had a storied and near-calamitous '03 Jag S type R whose dashboard went into "vegas mode" on the guy who bought it less than two weeks after i traded it in on my e55 wagon (a much cooler car than that '92 190, incidentally
), when he took it on his first road trip and blew out the rear diff, tranny and a few other underhood necessities. poor slob. he should've checked out www.thelurch.com ...
only my first car, a '65 pontiac grand prix, could compare to the e55 for its sheer ability to induce euphoria. i loves me a well-crafted benzomobile!
since then i had a storied and near-calamitous '03 Jag S type R whose dashboard went into "vegas mode" on the guy who bought it less than two weeks after i traded it in on my e55 wagon (a much cooler car than that '92 190, incidentally
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only my first car, a '65 pontiac grand prix, could compare to the e55 for its sheer ability to induce euphoria. i loves me a well-crafted benzomobile!
#35
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Originally Posted by vixapphire
i was at a grocery store parking lot in burbank CA yesterday and some guy drives by in a black e class with the AMG "appearance package". nice looking car. except he badged it as an "E32 AMG" on the trunk lid. i thought that was pretty funny. best subtle idioticy i've seen yet, for a rebadger...
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I installed genuine AMG parts on my E320, body kit, wheels, instrument cluster. I upgradded the exhaust and the intake as well. I am not trying to pose as an E55 but I admire the look, so I took the "0" off and left it with just E32 on the trunk. I would not put a E55 on it and think that the 32 is appropriate. I don't race but I like the style better than the stock look. I am happy with it and don't feel that I am hurting anyone in the process. There was this one old guy at the Mercedes dealership that was confused when he could not get in to my car with the remote from his black E55. He was parked somewhere else and mistook mine for his.
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#36
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Originally Posted by E-Klasse
Ok, You caught me.
I installed genuine AMG parts on my E320, body kit, wheels, instrument cluster. I upgradded the exhaust and the intake as well. I am not trying to pose as an E55 but I admire the look, so I took the "0" off and left it with just E32 on the trunk. I would not put a E55 on it and think that the 32 is appropriate. I don't race but I like the style better than the stock look. I am happy with it and don't feel that I am hurting anyone in the process. There was this one old guy at the Mercedes dealership that was confused when he could not get in to my car with the remote from his black E55. He was parked somewhere else and mistook mine for his.![nix](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/nixweiss.gif)
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![](http://www.mbnz.org/gallery/pics/506301547512200424251PM.jpg)
I installed genuine AMG parts on my E320, body kit, wheels, instrument cluster. I upgradded the exhaust and the intake as well. I am not trying to pose as an E55 but I admire the look, so I took the "0" off and left it with just E32 on the trunk. I would not put a E55 on it and think that the 32 is appropriate. I don't race but I like the style better than the stock look. I am happy with it and don't feel that I am hurting anyone in the process. There was this one old guy at the Mercedes dealership that was confused when he could not get in to my car with the remote from his black E55. He was parked somewhere else and mistook mine for his.
![nix](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/nixweiss.gif)
-- had i known that AMG would make its appearance package available to other cars in the line, i might have considered a lesser (and cheaper) model and dolled it up to look as slick as the '55 too! not like i'll ever use all this power, after all.
thing is, in the 90's there really was an e32 though, right? i've seen a few early/mid-90's E's with that appellation on the rear, and they've got the bodywork, etc. too.
btw E-Klasse, that's a hella nice car!
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#39
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Originally Posted by jangy
locket: please tell me you have something personal against RBrenton88, because you are a true ash if your attack was not warranted.
I have no idea who that tool is. But I did appreciate his "grammer" evaluation. Lol!!
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Originally Posted by E-Klasse
I know that there was an E36, E50 and then the E55 in the 90's.
http://www.benzworld.org/gallery/sho...,CE,D,TD_Class
HLG
Edit: Another link with some better photos.
http://www.amgpower.com/community/vi...d9cc3dd88a2a9f
Last edited by HLG600; 02-13-2006 at 02:29 PM.
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Originally Posted by ricky.agrawal
Snaaaaaake! Snaaaaaaakkkeee! ![Big Grin](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
I think debadged cars are hotter. I'm trying to get some time free to get moms trunk repainted to fill in the holes after I debadge her car.
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I think debadged cars are hotter. I'm trying to get some time free to get moms trunk repainted to fill in the holes after I debadge her car.
The other badges are stuck on with double-sided tape. Nice one Ricky...
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#42
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Originally Posted by E-Klasse
I know that there was an E36, E50 and then the E55 in the 90's.
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#43
Originally Posted by Rafal
The only holes are under the star in the middle of the trunk lid.
The other badges are stuck on with double-sided tape. Nice one Ricky...![Smilie](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
The other badges are stuck on with double-sided tape. Nice one Ricky...
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