RE: Mercedes has Gullwing replica crushed
Discussion
Motorrad said:
mickrick said:
I know, I live in Mallorca. They're all over here at the moment! With the bloody Germans!
While we're on the subject those paella eating sons of hotel waiters are no better. Hang the bloody lot of them.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?
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 .
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 .
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.
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.I'm not sure the British are sufficiently racially different from the Germans for you to be racist.
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.I'm not sure the British are sufficiently racially different from the Germans for you to be racist.
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 )
The XJ13 linked earlier is a thing of beauty isn't it! My God!
But Jaguar didn't see fit to crush it, so you see we Brits are very different from our sausage eating chums
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 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.
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!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.
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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.
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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
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
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 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.
Do try and keep up
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