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03-05-2008, 01:30 AM
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The biggest difference between the Ford Granada and the Mercedes?
There are still 78 Mercedes W116 still on the road. The Ford? It`s over in China now rebadged as some new Chinese POS trying to pass the crash tests. Charlie
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03-05-2008, 10:44 AM
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03-05-2008, 10:50 AM
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sadly, or strangly, a man on my street owns one. still drives it daily too. whats strange, is that it still looks really nice. he must have babied it all this time. which is sad.
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03-05-2008, 11:24 AM
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The only "same" things I saw on the commercial were both cars were silver, both had blue colored interior, and the driver was the same. There is no way anyone can confuse a 3 pointed star with a blue oval.
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03-05-2008, 02:32 AM
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i see Ford of that era all the time.... remember the Reincarnation ad Mercedes had?
Ford Reincarnated. "the out side may change but the soul stays the same" 
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03-05-2008, 02:34 AM
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Rofl. Was that a real ad or a joke? I can't believe they would put an ad up stating that buy our car and maybe people will mistake it for a Mercedes.
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03-05-2008, 02:54 AM
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I can....
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03-05-2008, 05:01 AM
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No, It was a real ad. They really marketed cars that way back then. They used the "Flaky" approach.
Unlike today, where they typically use the "Comic" approach, to appeal to customers. I'll never forget some of the Honda, and VW commercials I've seen over the years. Some of them have had me rolling.. Trucky
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03-05-2008, 07:20 AM
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Im hoping to get out of a parking ticket I received in PA in my 300D that was magically transformed by the time the citation was mailed into a Mercury.
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03-05-2008, 11:52 AM
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they should have compared it to a 75 300D... more similar appearance the 115 front grille is closer to the granada grille. still it's like comparing an eagle to a turkey.... they are both birds right?
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03-05-2008, 11:57 AM
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I don't think I've ever seen a "Grenada" on the road....or in a junk yard...or anywhere. Probably a combination of low-sales numbers + all of them rusting away in 5 years.
  That commercial was crazy. MB should have made a commercial that said "Grenada" (crash into crash-test barrier) and then "Mercedes" (crash into crash-test barrier) Can you tell the difference?
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03-05-2008, 12:23 PM
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Thanks!
"The following user(s) say, Thank You! to SirNik84",for his excellent translation.
"I only wish there was a way to send a copy of your post to Billy Ford".
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03-05-2008, 02:01 PM
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Tyler, it's G R A N A D A.
And they also had an ad campaign that bragged about the perfect 45 degree miter cuts on the chrome window moldings, just like the Mercedes had.. But when the cars came out on the streets, they still looked mismatched. I even know of a guy who bought a Granada with Granada body ID emblems on one side and Mercury Monarch emblems on the other side-- The only good thing ablut them was the '78 Monarch could be ordered with a 351 Cleveland, mu brother-in-law had one and it smoked the tires like nothing else on the road that year- but it also passed everything but a gas station.
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03-24-2008, 03:17 AM
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It looks just like an old W116 coupe!
http://denver.craigslist.org/car/615868743.html
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