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Old 05-21-2005, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by hos280
So what do the letters stand for.? I asked a few germans I work with and the first said:

E stands for "elegence"
S stands for "super" (pronounced Zoopa!)

Does anybody have any other accounts?
S-class in German is S-Klasse, which is short for SonderKlasse, which means Special Class.

I have read the E-Class was "Executive Class", and that the C in C-Class was for Compact.

-gil
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