RE: Mercedes-AMG drops top from 585hp GT R

[anonymous-user]

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

[Shiv_P]

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Guess you are one of the TT is an R8 squad?

[KillerHERTZ]

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible, having ludicrous amounts of power is useless if you intend to use it most of the time on roads here in the UK especially here in the South East and lose loads of money on depreciation. AMG use to be a rare sight been done to death now.

Jealous much?

[anonymous-user]

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Does it matter to you what other people think Ron ?

[anonymous-user]

Brooking10 said:

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Does it matter to you what other people think Ron ?

Yes, that's why I bought a Ferrari F430 Trev, the Mercedes in this article looks like a golf club car park car.

[GranCab]

£15,000 Merc Convertible






New Merc AMG GTR Convertible





Blinking 'eck which is which ?

[GranCab]

Raygun said:

Brooking10 said:

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Does it matter to you what other people think Ron ?

Yes, that's why I bought a Ferrari F430 Trev, the Mercedes in this article looks like a golf club car park car.

..... so you "bought a Ferrari F430" just because you are bothered what other people think about the car you drive ?

Priceless .....

[anonymous-user]

Raygun said:

Brooking10 said:

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Does it matter to you what other people think Ron ?

Yes, that's why I bought a Ferrari F430 Trev, the Mercedes in this article looks like a golf club car park car.

Of course you did Ron.

Any pics ?

[GranCab]

He might post a photo of his ancient Ford Focus if you ask nicely ....

[anonymous-user]

GranCab said:

He might post a photo of his ancient Ford Focus if you ask nicely ....

Now now, we may well end up with lashings of custard to accompany our humble pie

[SpeckledJim]

PhantomPH said:

Dear me, nobody is ever happy on PH anymore, are they?! Ha ha

Not normally a cabriolet fan, bu for me this looks great - each to their own!

I'll take on in black with the optional black pack, thanks!

I cannot think of a single place I could turn up in that and not feel a total wand.

[KungFuPanda]

Brooking10 said:

Raygun said:

Brooking10 said:

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Does it matter to you what other people think Ron ?

Yes, that's why I bought a Ferrari F430 Trev, the Mercedes in this article looks like a golf club car park car.

Of course you did Ron.

Any pics ?

Go on lad, post us a picture of the £15k Merc that looks like this.

[MX6]

GranCab said:

Raygun said:

Brooking10 said:

Raygun said:

Mafffew said:

Raygun said:

To the untrained eye it's no different to the next door neighbours £15 grand s/h Merc convertible .

I don't particularly like the styling, but please stop talking ste.

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

Does it matter to you what other people think Ron ?

Yes, that's why I bought a Ferrari F430 Trev, the Mercedes in this article looks like a golf club car park car.

..... so you "bought a Ferrari F430" just because you are bothered what other people think about the car you drive ?

Priceless .....

To be honest, I think that with performance cars like the GT R and F430, how they look and are perceived is part and parcel of the design of the car and the experience of owning them. Unless you have no self awareness at all, you will know that other people will have a judgement about the looks of a given car that you drive, it's unavoidable. If the looks of a car don't matter at all then why even worry about how it looks, what does it matter if it has a big rear wing that is probably a functional addition anyway?

I find it a little bit disingenuous when people say that they aren't bothered at all about what other people think, people invariably want approval and respect from at least some group or other even if it's in a limited way.

There is of course a kind of inverse snobbery amongst some, and I see it here on PH at times, where they are actively opposed to driving/owning ostentatious cars as they don't want the appearance of being too flashy, or however you want to put it.

Personally, I'd love to own an expensive, ostentatious car at some point, and not only because I want to enjoy driving it in a vacuum where I am invisible.

[Mafffew]

Raygun said:

The majority of people wouldn't be clued up on different types of Merc convertible, your the one talking st.

GranCab has beaten me to it, see the below.

Also, I believe you meant "you're the one talking st"

GranCab said:

£15,000 Merc Convertible






New Merc AMG GTR Convertible





Blinking 'eck which is which ?