Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between the pre 87 W201s and the K-cars? Must be that whole Daimler thing. 
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it's kind of like how in the 70's they tried to say that that a Ford Granada looked like a Benz W116.
one of my relatives had an 87 Chrysler New Yorker (based on the K-Car) I remember it had all kind of squeaking problems and usually required a couple expensive repair jobs every year.
one of my relatives had an 87 Chrysler New Yorker (based on the K-Car) I remember it had all kind of squeaking problems and usually required a couple expensive repair jobs every year.
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K Car was a cheap imitation of a Benz. Crappy designers imitate instead of innovate. That's what is wrong with US automakers. They are always copying Japan and Germany, or rehashing 40 year old designs because they have no creativity.
I had a K crap coupe. It was a repair nightmare and a drain on my wallet as new driver back then. I got my driver license while driving it and on that day I was lucky it didn't die on me. The AC wasn't working in Texas heat but the examiner was very understanding.
..thats not a bad idea
I don't see much of a resemblance, Thank God!!!!!!
Mercedes design DNA dominated in the 80-90 period in the same way that the ¨Bangle¨ BMW design DNA does today.
The really proud thing about our W201 aesthetic is that it was the ground breaking change for Mercedes design via Bruno Saaco, and that is on top of the engineering firsts on our kinder benz.
From Mercedes Enthusiast July 2004, Profile Brunno Sacco, Styling Equals Content by Dan Trent
As the C111-3 dazzled with its sci-fi looks, work started amid intense secrecy in 1977 on a brand new "compact Mercedes." An enthusiastic advocate of the project, (Bruno) Sacco was convinced that the new car, known simply as W201, should be styled radically and deliberately be designed to provoke debate and grab the attention of a new generation of potential Mercedes drivers.
It's credit to Sacco's persuasiveness that the design he came up with was carried through into production with such purity. The W201 launched as the 190 and, 22 years later on, it's easy to forget how shocking it must have appeared compared with cars like the traditionally styled W123 range and R107 SL.
Pre-dating controversial BMW stylist Chris Bangle's "flame surfacing" by nearly two decades, Sacco referred to the surface treatment on the 190 as "diamond cut", likening the angular lines to that of a crafted precious stone. Such a proclamation could be construed as somewhat pretentious but understatement and restraint are two words typically absent from the car designers' lexicon. Either way, echoes of the C111-3 design philosophy can be found in the 190 though while the high tailed, wedgey profile survived into successive generations of Mercedes saloons, the "diamond cut" did not.
The really proud thing about our W201 aesthetic is that it was the ground breaking change for Mercedes design via Bruno Saaco, and that is on top of the engineering firsts on our kinder benz.
From Mercedes Enthusiast July 2004, Profile Brunno Sacco, Styling Equals Content by Dan Trent
As the C111-3 dazzled with its sci-fi looks, work started amid intense secrecy in 1977 on a brand new "compact Mercedes." An enthusiastic advocate of the project, (Bruno) Sacco was convinced that the new car, known simply as W201, should be styled radically and deliberately be designed to provoke debate and grab the attention of a new generation of potential Mercedes drivers.
It's credit to Sacco's persuasiveness that the design he came up with was carried through into production with such purity. The W201 launched as the 190 and, 22 years later on, it's easy to forget how shocking it must have appeared compared with cars like the traditionally styled W123 range and R107 SL.
Pre-dating controversial BMW stylist Chris Bangle's "flame surfacing" by nearly two decades, Sacco referred to the surface treatment on the 190 as "diamond cut", likening the angular lines to that of a crafted precious stone. Such a proclamation could be construed as somewhat pretentious but understatement and restraint are two words typically absent from the car designers' lexicon. Either way, echoes of the C111-3 design philosophy can be found in the 190 though while the high tailed, wedgey profile survived into successive generations of Mercedes saloons, the "diamond cut" did not.
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