Anyone changed their Kompressor emblem?
06-23-2007, 12:09 AM
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Anyone changed their Kompressor emblem?
I got a feeling some may flame me on this, but was wondering if anyone has considered changing/removing their KOMPRESSOR emblems that are on the fenders to say an english emblem of say SUPERCHARGED. If I can find a nice emblem and letting I wouldnt mind changing it to english.
Anyone seen any good ones?
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Anyone seen any good ones?
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06-23-2007, 11:28 AM
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Yea its one of those things where half the people are going to hate it others are not, its either I just take em off and leave em off, or get something with comparable text style and put it in english. At least my S600 has BITURBO on it, in english.
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06-23-2007, 11:37 AM
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I feel you, I have some lorinser fenders to put on and I was thinking to do the same thing to mine. I think it should look fine if the letters aren't to big.
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06-23-2007, 12:05 PM
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It should look fine, as long as lettters, shift and size maches... eather way bouth emblems should look good I don't see too much difference in looks ... good luck !
06-23-2007, 11:40 PM
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06-24-2007, 09:20 AM
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nice rides i would leave it as is or remove them entirely...you ever raced your two fine sedans?
06-24-2007, 04:26 PM
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My wife wont race me in the other car, but I can say for certain without a doubt the S600 is clearly quicker off the line cause of the TwinTurbos, it just throws you back into the seat. Id say by 1/4mi it would probably have 1-3car length jump.
I guess I will just remove them and leave it without them for now.
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I guess I will just remove them and leave it without them for now.
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06-25-2007, 01:57 PM
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Those damn Germans. What were they thinking.........? Putting German words on America bound cars. Geees......
I could not take it anymore.................., so not only I reduced my aerodynamic drag, but I also made it a more approriate and English.
I could not take it anymore.................., so not only I reduced my aerodynamic drag, but I also made it a more approriate and English.
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Really, I believe its a marketing ploy. Believe it or not, to the unaware, terms like Kompressor, or Bi-Turbo, or VTEC, or VVTi etc. make the car sound much more sophisticated/powerful/faster/better. Instead of calling it a Supercharged V8, Mercedes decides to use German (we all know foreign=fancy), and instead of Twin Turbo, they use Bi-Turbo to go against the masses. Those Japanese manufactures couldn't just explain their complicated variable valve timing technological features on paper either, they had to name it, and for those who didn't care to find out what the acronym stood for, probably guessed it was a feature that made the car "better".
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So far, I have only seen Mercedes use the term Bi-Turbo. The rest of us call it twin turbo.
Really, I believe its a marketing ploy. Believe it or not, to the unaware, terms like Kompressor, or Bi-Turbo, or VTEC, or VVTi etc. make the car sound much more sophisticated/powerful/faster/better. Instead of calling it a Supercharged V8, Mercedes decides to use German (we all know foreign=fancy), and instead of Twin Turbo, they use Bi-Turbo to go against the masses. Those Japanese manufactures couldn't just explain their complicated variable valve timing technological features on paper either, they had to name it, and for those who didn't care to find out what the acronym stood for, probably guessed it was a feature that made the car "better".
Really, I believe its a marketing ploy. Believe it or not, to the unaware, terms like Kompressor, or Bi-Turbo, or VTEC, or VVTi etc. make the car sound much more sophisticated/powerful/faster/better. Instead of calling it a Supercharged V8, Mercedes decides to use German (we all know foreign=fancy), and instead of Twin Turbo, they use Bi-Turbo to go against the masses. Those Japanese manufactures couldn't just explain their complicated variable valve timing technological features on paper either, they had to name it, and for those who didn't care to find out what the acronym stood for, probably guessed it was a feature that made the car "better".
I've generally seen the term Biturbo applied to systems of two "mated" turbos spooling up at the same time, while Twin Turbo usually applies to turbos working separately on separate cylinder banks. Mercedes has fogged this definition up further by applying the moniker "Biturbo" to what would essentially be considered a Twin Turbo setup.
