Necx0
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- R31 Skyline, Charade rally car
Hello all,
The R8 Spider thread prompted me to start this thread. Are there just too many damn cars around today? It seems that every manafacturer is trying to capture every segment of every market and its got to come to a head at some point surely?? There are all the Top Gear jokes about the 911 range but as Mercedes Benz spring to mind as the worst offenders I will use them as an example.
For instance about a decade or so ago we had the C-class, the E Class, the S Class and the G Class. Simple, small medium and large and 4x4 with a few different engine variants for each. So maybe 15 different models.
A decade on look at the range!!!!
A Class
B Class
C Class (now two different variants!!)
E Class
CLS range
CLK range
CL range
SLK range
SL range
S Class
ML Class
GL Class
G Class
R Class
Engines I can think of
1.6 4
1.8 4
2.0 turbo
2.0 diesel
3.5 V6
2.8 V6
5.4 V8 supercharged
6.2 V8
5.5 V8
6.0 V12
6.0 V12 twin turbo
3.2 diesel
and probably many more!!! Other manafacturers are just as guilty!
Discuss......!!!
The R8 Spider thread prompted me to start this thread. Are there just too many damn cars around today? It seems that every manafacturer is trying to capture every segment of every market and its got to come to a head at some point surely?? There are all the Top Gear jokes about the 911 range but as Mercedes Benz spring to mind as the worst offenders I will use them as an example.
For instance about a decade or so ago we had the C-class, the E Class, the S Class and the G Class. Simple, small medium and large and 4x4 with a few different engine variants for each. So maybe 15 different models.
A decade on look at the range!!!!
A Class
B Class
C Class (now two different variants!!)
E Class
CLS range
CLK range
CL range
SLK range
SL range
S Class
ML Class
GL Class
G Class
R Class
Engines I can think of
1.6 4
1.8 4
2.0 turbo
2.0 diesel
3.5 V6
2.8 V6
5.4 V8 supercharged
6.2 V8
5.5 V8
6.0 V12
6.0 V12 twin turbo
3.2 diesel
and probably many more!!! Other manafacturers are just as guilty!
Discuss......!!!