E class cabriolet delivered with wrong badge
Discussion
Triumph Man said:
Hang on, the E350 isn't even a 6 cylinder? So the OP is moaning that his 4 cylinder car has the badge on from a lesser 4 cylinder car? Right...
He's not really moaning, more asking if anyone else has had a similar experience. It wouldn't give a me a lot of confidence in the car or manufacturer either.stu67 said:
It happens quite a lot, I used to work up at VW HQ in the late 90’s and we used to get some odd mistakes, I can remember having an odd coloured GTI as a company car. They couldn’t retail it new as it wasn’t a brochure colour. I also had a certain spec Audi but they hadn’t fitted it with AC on the line, again difficult to retail new.
Wife had a Peugeot 206 CC with European seats - the isofix loops were on the driver's seat.A neighbour has an '06 petrol W211 that is badged as an E420 rather than E240. It doesn't look its had any spray work done so it could be that in the factory someone put the digits the wrong way round. They did make a W211 E420 CDI V8 but his has the 2.6l V6 which makes it an E240.
Edited by nullogik on Thursday 10th October 13:41
talksthetorque said:
SweptVolume said:
Yeah, have to say, I don't get it either. If it's an E Class with a 2.0 engine, then it's an E200. Just a particularly fast one.
Whatever you do, don't go and look at an Audi Dealership or website. SweptVolume said:
talksthetorque said:
SweptVolume said:
Yeah, have to say, I don't get it either. If it's an E Class with a 2.0 engine, then it's an E200. Just a particularly fast one.
Whatever you do, don't go and look at an Audi Dealership or website. I looked MB GLE (what used to be M Class) 300d recently and was gobsmacked to find it's a 2litre 4 pot.
Sheepshanks said:
I've said this before, but I bet the user / chooser company car drivers love having 30's, 35's and 40's on the back of their rep-mobiles. I'm sure people will be picking Audi just based on that.
I looked MB GLE (what used to be M Class) 300d recently and was gobsmacked to find it's a 2litre 4 pot.
Guess what the new M135i is....I looked MB GLE (what used to be M Class) 300d recently and was gobsmacked to find it's a 2litre 4 pot.
Sheepshanks said:
SweptVolume said:
talksthetorque said:
SweptVolume said:
Yeah, have to say, I don't get it either. If it's an E Class with a 2.0 engine, then it's an E200. Just a particularly fast one.
Whatever you do, don't go and look at an Audi Dealership or website. I looked MB GLE (what used to be M Class) 300d recently and was gobsmacked to find it's a 2litre 4 pot.
I once had a 1999 E36 323i cab about 10 years ago as a stand in. The newer E46 shape had already come out but the cabriolet forsome reason was left behind.
Came from factory with a 328i twin exhaust on it and was a nightmare when buying parts when giving the age. Always got questioned.
Badges have been off for years (take the 323i), but people still assume the engine is as per the badge - a few people have asked if my 640 has a 4 litre engine or assumed it has. Yes, I do correct them
Came from factory with a 328i twin exhaust on it and was a nightmare when buying parts when giving the age. Always got questioned.
Badges have been off for years (take the 323i), but people still assume the engine is as per the badge - a few people have asked if my 640 has a 4 litre engine or assumed it has. Yes, I do correct them
Hoofy said:
How do they use the numbers now then? It's still bigger number = bigger engine. Is there some weird rule I'm not aware of?
Still performance / power related, just not capacityCompletely off topic, but why do eco friendly cars, or the technology for them have blue badges if theY are 'green' e.g blue efficiency
TommyBuoy said:
Hoofy said:
How do they use the numbers now then? It's still bigger number = bigger engine. Is there some weird rule I'm not aware of?
Still performance / power related, just not capacityHow does "40" relate to a 3 litre turbo then? Surely, it should be 630. Or 630T if they want to make it different from any non-turbo variant?
Hoofy said:
How does "40" relate to a 3 litre turbo then? Surely, it should be 630. Or 630T if they want to make it different from any non-turbo variant?
It doesn't, and it hasn't for decades. It's an indication of the performance of the car relative to others in the range, nothing more. TommyBuoy said:
Completely off topic, but why do eco friendly cars, or the technology for them have blue badges if theY are 'green' e.g blue efficiency
"Green" risks being a legally binding claim that a product is good for the environment ... when at the end of the day, it's still a machine that turns old dinosaurs into smoke.Hence manufacturers latched onto "Blue" as a way of suggesting a less polluting product, without risking having to defend in court claims that it has zero or positive effect on the environment.
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