E class cabriolet delivered with wrong badge

E class cabriolet delivered with wrong badge

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talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.

CaptainSensib1e

1,432 posts

220 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.

tigamilla

507 posts

79 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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I would keep the badge for some surprise wins in the "fast lane grand prix" hehe

Also amused at how every post on PH somehow ends up with posters lobbing mildly insulting comments at the OP

Lovely car BTW

knitware

1,473 posts

192 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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Mo28 said:
Just remove the badge altogether, personally think it looks a lot cleaner. It was the first thing I did to my C class coupe when I got it and at some angles the C200 badge looked askew.
Yes, I take off the badges, from the E500 up to the now 520d, so much cleaner.

IJWS15

1,830 posts

84 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.

4941cc

25,867 posts

205 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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Probably had the bootlid painted at the dealer following a bump and they fitted a badge they had spare, rather than spend £60 on a new one.

How's the paint finish on that panel and the rear bumper? Compare well to the rear wings?

nullogik

225 posts

141 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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

SweptVolume

1,090 posts

92 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.
Every time I see a new Audi I am baffled. If you need a log table to decode the badge, then frankly, I don't see why they didn't bother.

samoht

5,633 posts

145 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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IJWS15 said:
Wife had a Peugeot 206 CC with European seats - the isofix loops were on the driver's seat.
Gotta start 'em young!

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.
Every time I see a new Audi I am baffled. If you need a log table to decode the badge, then frankly, I don't see why they didn't bother.
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.

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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....

Fast Bug

11,597 posts

160 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.
Every time I see a new Audi I am baffled. If you need a log table to decode the badge, then frankly, I don't see why they didn't bother.
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.
Why? They haven't reflected engine capacity for many years now, same with BMW

TommyBuoy

1,269 posts

166 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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 smile

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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Fast Bug said:
Why? They haven't reflected engine capacity for many years now, same with BMW
The first number's usually been right, I think? So 200/220/250 where all 2.1 litre, than later 2 litre.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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?

TommyBuoy

1,269 posts

166 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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 capacity

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

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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 capacity
Ok, I noticed yours is reviewed on Autocar: "among the turbocharged direct injection petrol units is a 315bhp 3.0-litre in-line six in the 640i driven here"

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?

Composer62

1,627 posts

85 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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I followed a Nissan Leaf for a while today and noticed that the big round "NISSAN" badge on the back was upside down and actually said "NASSIN" .

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.

samoht

5,633 posts

145 months

Thursday 10th October 2019
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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.