Car Thread

[webenda]

I will look to see if I can walk right up to one and get inside it, when and if I am called to the dealership this week , and offer you guys a report/impression, if you wish.

Yes, I would like a report. When I asked a salesperson at our Tucson Mercedes dealer about it they didn't know what I was talking about. They were not able to take my order for one. When I found out what they really look like, I became happy about their ignorance.

[Tom Dempsey]

Or perhaps they were trying to keep a regular customer from becoming disenchanted with the marque.

[HONDO74]

Kind of reminds me of the early 80s when Cadillac re-badged a 4 cylinder econo box and called it a Cadillac Cimarron

[up148]

Wayne, is your nose growing? I owned a 2013 and 2015 Frontier and that looks identical with a Mercedes emblem on the grill.

BH

Check it out for yourself. Mercedes X-Class for 2018.=> https://youtu.be/pNWXcxCV4Pc

CNET says, The X-Class doesn't stray too far from the concept.

Underneath all the flashy bits, it's not entirely a Daimler product. The frame comes from the Nissan Navara, a truck that's not currently sold in the US. The previous-generation Navara, however, is still in the US -- it's just called the Nissan Frontier. The X-Class will be manufactured in a joint operation between Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance.

It is still a Mercedes-Benz, though, and that definitely shows with its technological complement.

The U-tube video truck looks way different than the basically stock Frontier shown in your original post. If Mercedes is borrowing anything from the Frontier, I'm ashamed of them. The only reason I bought Frontiers is they would fit in our short garages in OK and I only need it for suburban use not hauling or trailering. Once I got my 2017 Ridgeline, the difference is night and day. The Frontier is one of the hardest riding pickups I've ever been in and the creature comforts for even new offering are severely dated.

BH

[up148]

Most of today's cars are pretty boring to look at and it's even hard to tell one manufacture from another, without looking at the emblems.

BH

That reminds me of the new Mercedes X-Class pick-ups I was so enthusiastic about a few days ago.

What was offered.

Yes! The new classic Mercedes look! I want one!!!
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/merced ... t-x-class/

What we got.

Never mind, looks like a Nissan... boring!

Wayne, I just got it! disregard the other posts. I thought the top photo was what was promised and what was delivered was the frontier with the mercedes badge on the grill. Mea Culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.......


BH

[webenda]

The U-tube video truck looks way different than the basically stock Frontier shown in your original post.

I concede to you. I just think it is way different from the concept model.

If Mercedes is borrowing anything from the Frontier, I'm ashamed of them.
...
The Frontier is one of the hardest riding pickups I've ever been in and the creature comforts for even new offering are severely dated.

BH

Mercedes is using a Frontier chassis. I think Mercedes fixed all those complaints. Maybe Murph will get to take a test drive and tell us if he likes the ride and creature comforts.

Wayne, I just got it! disregard the other posts. I thought the top photo was what was promised and what was delivered was the frontier with the mercedes badge on the grill. Mea Culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.......


BH

Actually, you were correct in thinking that what I showed as the delivered truck looked like a Nissan. In reality, what was offered was somewhere in between the two images I posted. The rationale I used in sticking a Mercedes star on a Frontier was to emphasize that what has been offered is far away from what was promised.

Now someone tell me, "A concept car is not a promise of anything." I know that but the Mercedes X-Class concept truck looked so doable.
The Mercedes X-Class truck in the video looks so Nissanish.

[webenda]

I found something cooler than a Mercedes Pickup...

Be Cooler Than Anyone Else At Home Depot In This 1948 COE Ford Pickup
Sold on eBay, Oct 25, 2015, Chad Reynolds

[rogruth]

Is that another concept car?
I don't remember anything like that.

[Wolf]

It may be "cooler than anything else at Home Depot"--note that the air conditioning
is in full "cool mode" (boy! do I miss those operating wing vent windows!!), but
can you really haul full sheets of plywood in it?? That bed looks slightly short...

[Tom Dempsey]

There was a custom running around here a few years back, it was a late forties Mack cab mounted on an F-350 with a fabricated bed. Very well done and the owner used it as a daily driver, the epitome of a custom car if you ask me.

[aterry11]

COE stands for cab over engine.
early 70's my friends dad had a tow truck on a coe body we all wished we kept it.
Picture is of a Studebaker car hauler

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

I asked about the idea of a Mercedes Benz pick-up truck, today, at the dealership. I was assured that not a single one of them had come ashore in the USA, as yet. The receptionist I spoke to seemed dubious about the whole idea. That's all I can report on that subject, dudes.

[Roy]

I asked about the idea of a Mercedes Benz pick-up truck, today, at the dealership. I was assured that not a single one of them had come ashore in the USA, as yet. The receptionist I spoke to seemed dubious about the whole idea. That's all I can report on that subject, dudes.

I know I've seen Mercedes trucks, buses and such. They sell all kinds of vehicular products for business, and none of them have anything to do with the bling of their cars.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

On the showroom floor, today, they did have an exceptional looking (black) van-type vehicle (side wide-opening doors) all of which appeared quite stylish, attractive, and roomy, as well as pretty blingy, with seats for 7 passengers, uncramped. It seemed to have some roof height added to its overall profile. It was possessed of quite a presence.

[Roy]

Sounds like the Mercedes answer to the VW bus.