RE: Mercedes has Gullwing replica crushed
Discussion
Is it really true?
I've read the whole thread, and remember the original stories appearing on just about every motoring Website/paper. But... I'm not convinced it's entirely true. Did anyone see an interview with the owner? Or the builder? Any information on the underpinnings of the car? Perhaps a statement from German Customs who supposedly seized it? I've tried any number of Web search terms and found nothing.
Has anyone seen anything other than a paraphrasing of the exact same words from the MB press release with the same set of photos? In the photos, all of the men doing the scrapping are blurred. I'm wondering if this was pure PR.
(yes, I know that thread-bump haters are going to hate, but...)
I've read the whole thread, and remember the original stories appearing on just about every motoring Website/paper. But... I'm not convinced it's entirely true. Did anyone see an interview with the owner? Or the builder? Any information on the underpinnings of the car? Perhaps a statement from German Customs who supposedly seized it? I've tried any number of Web search terms and found nothing.
Has anyone seen anything other than a paraphrasing of the exact same words from the MB press release with the same set of photos? In the photos, all of the men doing the scrapping are blurred. I'm wondering if this was pure PR.
(yes, I know that thread-bump haters are going to hate, but...)
I know. 
I found this thread after another thread hereabouts asked about our ideal kit. (I said it would be a McLaren F1, and others wondered if it would suffer the same fate as is supposed to have befallen this Gullwing replica, but that'd be a tangent on this thread.)
What disappoints me most (being an ex-journalist) is that none of the people who wrote up this story seems to have gone beyond the Mercedes press release. It's all taken at face value. They (including PH) really were used as a mouthpiece for MB.
Next time I'm in a model/toy shop, I'll see if the Gullwing models have a "The Gullwing shape is a trademark of Mercedes Benz, and is used with its permission" in the small print. My gut feel is that they don't, and there's some BS in this story.
I found this thread after another thread hereabouts asked about our ideal kit. (I said it would be a McLaren F1, and others wondered if it would suffer the same fate as is supposed to have befallen this Gullwing replica, but that'd be a tangent on this thread.)What disappoints me most (being an ex-journalist) is that none of the people who wrote up this story seems to have gone beyond the Mercedes press release. It's all taken at face value. They (including PH) really were used as a mouthpiece for MB.
Next time I'm in a model/toy shop, I'll see if the Gullwing models have a "The Gullwing shape is a trademark of Mercedes Benz, and is used with its permission" in the small print. My gut feel is that they don't, and there's some BS in this story.
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