RE: Mercedes has Gullwing replica crushed

RE: Mercedes has Gullwing replica crushed

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m4tti

5,426 posts

154 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Precisely.. this kit is hardly going to dent the price of the real 300 sl. In fact may do more harm than good in relation terms.

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Motorrad said:
mickrick said:
I know, I live in Mallorca. They're all over here at the moment! With the bloody Germans! smile
While we're on the subject those paella eating sons of hotel waiters are no better. Hang the bloody lot of them.
laugh If you want to break a Spaniards fingers, kick him up the arse...

Anyway, enough racism, or nationalism whatever you want to call it. I thought I once read somewhere that copying something was regarded as flattering?

Chesil speedster for instance, you can't honestly say they are not lovely, and that Gullwing looked very nicely done.
It's a bit different from a fake Rolex don't you think?

Maybe I'm bias being a petrol head?

longshot

3,286 posts

197 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Hey, hang on.
We can't have a thread about ra... err, gullwings and not mention the bloody French.

GrizzlyBear

1,072 posts

134 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Andrew[MG] said:
Seems pretty harsh! I hope the Russians and the Chinese start churning out 1000s of replicas just to piss them off.
I am sure I remember an article in a car magazine (Performance Car Possibly) about 20 years ago that there were a few Chinese car companies were going to make replicas of several classic cars including the 300SL, not sure what came of that but I loved the idea.

They should only be able to enforce destruction if they have made the model within (say) five years, this is just silly for a car that hasn't been produced for decades.

Lets hope the Chinese start to turn out thousands of kit car replicas of the 300SL because I want a kit car that looks like a 300SL driving.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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mickrick said:
Although I was talking generally. ... Does that make me a racist?
Er yes, that's how racism works - generalising about over 80 million people based on your experience of less than 0.00001% of that population.

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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xRIEx said:
mickrick said:
Although I was talking generally. ... Does that make me a racist?
Er yes, that's how racism works - generalising about over 80 million people based on your experience of less than 0.00001% of that population.
O.K. thanks for that. I'm a racist then. smile

jamieduff1981

8,022 posts

139 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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GrizzlyBear said:
Andrew[MG] said:
Seems pretty harsh! I hope the Russians and the Chinese start churning out 1000s of replicas just to piss them off.
I am sure I remember an article in a car magazine (Performance Car Possibly) about 20 years ago that there were a few Chinese car companies were going to make replicas of several classic cars including the 300SL, not sure what came of that but I loved the idea.

They should only be able to enforce destruction if they have made the model within (say) five years, this is just silly for a car that hasn't been produced for decades.

Lets hope the Chinese start to turn out thousands of kit car replicas of the 300SL because I want a kit car that looks like a 300SL driving.
I think this is the nub of the matter. They are acting like some wiener who hits women in his rage.

They have proven themselves to be utterly impotent in stopping the Chinese do actual commercial damage by ripping off whichever current or very recent Mercedes model they feel like and churn them out by the million, so instead they stamp their authority on one man's little kit car so they can puff their chests out and write articles gloating about smashing a fibreglass shell in to little pieces. It's beneath contempt, and as I said above, it's not corporate behaviour I want to help finance so SL's are off the list. That probably means AMG powered Aston Martins are too because I don't want any of my money finding it's way in to paying MB's legal overhead if I can help it.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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mickrick said:
xRIEx said:
mickrick said:
Although I was talking generally. ... Does that make me a racist?
Er yes, that's how racism works - generalising about over 80 million people based on your experience of less than 0.00001% of that population.
O.K. thanks for that. I'm a racist then. smile
I'd say you were a xenophobe, not a racist.

I'm not sure the British are sufficiently racially different from the Germans for you to be racist.

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Johnnytheboy said:
mickrick said:
xRIEx said:
mickrick said:
Although I was talking generally. ... Does that make me a racist?
Er yes, that's how racism works - generalising about over 80 million people based on your experience of less than 0.00001% of that population.
O.K. thanks for that. I'm a racist then. smile
I'd say you were a xenophobe, not a racist.

I'm not sure the British are sufficiently racially different from the Germans for you to be racist.
Now I'm really confused! I don't know what I am. But then I don't care what people think I am.
Never mind, I like sausage's, but Cumberland's mind, not those German things. (or the Spanish Chorizo, although they are nice in that red wine sauce wink )

The XJ13 linked earlier is a thing of beauty isn't it! My God! bow
But Jaguar didn't see fit to crush it, so you see we Brits are very different from our sausage eating chums wink

peteO

1,790 posts

184 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!

DonkeyApple

54,919 posts

168 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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BarbaricAvatar said:
Good.
If you can't afford the real thing then look at something else. I hope Ferrari start doing this too; ridding the world of all those awful MR2 replica's.
I'd rather have an original MR2 than a fake Ferrari anyway. It's like getting your wife to wear a Berenice Marlohe mask when you're out in public; it's pathetic.
You have to be careful though. A lot of those tacky and clumsy looking replicas turn out to be new Ferraris!

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile

peteO

1,790 posts

184 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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mickrick said:
peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile
opinions pal

mickrick

3,700 posts

172 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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peteO said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile
opinions pal
Exactly wink


peteO

1,790 posts

184 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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mickrick said:
peteO said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile
opinions pal
Exactly wink
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TheEnd

15,370 posts

187 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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m4tti said:
Precisely.. this kit is hardly going to dent the price of the real 300 sl. In fact may do more harm than good in relation terms.
It'll be more down to some guy making a handful of cash based on someone else's work.

Someone mentioned bucket crab mentality earlier this week, and it's a similar thing. I wouldn't hurt Mercedes, even though they'll try to claim that someone might see a replica and think it's real, and think they look a bit cheap and dodgy and damage the brand, but that's never really going to affect anyone who would actually be buying one.

CampDavid

9,145 posts

197 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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mickrick said:
peteO said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile
opinions pal
Exactly wink
At best you're an idiot, at worst a racist, it's not really the level to aim at

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile
opinions pal
Exactly wink
At best you're an idiot, at worst a racist, it's not really the level to aim at
You despicable idiotist...

B'stard Child

28,320 posts

245 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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2 years ago it was a topical and entertaining thread

wrings hands - what has become of PH

All we need now is for someone to bump up the Ferrari's replica's in Italy Thread and I'd say I'd got a Pair

Beaten by 3 of kind but I can't remember a thread where any other replica was crushed in the same way - caterfieldwesterham manufactures could have a field day with Robin Hoods or any of the other copies.......

Oh wait they are all copies biggrin

Steffan

10,362 posts

227 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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mybrainhurts said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
mickrick said:
peteO said:
CampDavid said:
mickrick said:
Germans. Generally with very few exceptions, I have found them to be arrogant bullies. I wouldn't expect anything else to be honest.
I would never buy a German car or motorcycle, and having seen the latest offerings from merc. they should put those in the crusher!
I looked at a new merc. yesterday that parked close to me, and it looked like a Focus!
Even my German neighbours are arrogant bullying pricks that had me going to court. It's in their genes I tell you.
Bumping a 2 year old thread for some poorly founded racism. That’s some top douchbaggery right there!
I second that!
It's already been established I am not a racist.

Do try and keep up smile
opinions pal
Exactly wink
At best you're an idiot, at worst a racist, it's not really the level to aim at
You despicable idiotist...
LOL +1 smile