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Originally Posted by danger450  Knowing Mercedes is a GERMAN car company, of course the names are from a German origin, however, many also start with the same letter and meaning in English.
E = Einspritzung (Ottomotor mit Benzineinspritzung) gas engine with injection
That should settle it ... for now ! |
Not so fast. Just to throw a wrench in this gear load of fun! The "E" when it was used as a suffix, i.e. 190E, it meant fuel injection. However, when they switched over to using letters as prefixes, i.e. E550, the "E" became "Exekutive", as in executive class. So MB gained another Body designation. Which makes sense since I don't know of any late model MB's that have a carburetor. How's that for fun.
Oh! I forgot to add. There have been a lot of people that have asked what a CLS is, but not one them has ever thought it was "C" class.