...is a guy who, for very good reasons, is behind bars after he ripped of some investors in Germany. Total whacko.

There is now E 1000 badged by Mercedes Benz. There has been the Audi 4000 and 5000, which have been plain Audi 100 and 80 in the rest of the world.

Mercedes passenger cars do have the letter of the class (A, C, E and the other vitamins) and a three digit number, which used to be a tenth of the engine replacement in ccm.

That was weakend when they started putting the eight cylinder into the W 109 with the 300 SEL 6.3; 300 SEL 3.5 and 300 SEL 4.5

Kind regards
Eberhard