Like the rest of you guys with more than one, or ALL Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the fleet, I don't refer to any of mine by that...I usually say the "convertible", the "truck" or "SUV", or the "red car" when referring to the W124.

People seem to get weird about what they consider "conspicuous consumption", when it comes to Mercedes-Benz ownership...so I play down the marque and refer to each as the vehicle type instead.

I prefer POS.:D

Or leaky German POS.

I roll in my benzo.

Here, here now, she deserves a bit more respect than that. Especially since after her restore and rejuvenation she'll be the envy of everyone on the block.

I've given a name to every other car I've owned. I haven't found the right name for my MB, so I call it "The Wagon". :1blank:

I guess mine would be Max Wagen. Yeah, that has a nice ring to it.

It's much better than this:D:

My understanding was that if you did not own the car, it was a Mercedes*. If you do own the car, it is to referred to as "The Benz"
At home, I refer to them by the black car, the diesel, or "the old one". (doesn't seem quite that respectful, does it?)


* pronounced: Myrrh-say-dees (heathens!)

I find that if I refer to my car as "my Mercedes-Benz" people think im being unnecessarily arrogant and flaunting the fact that I drive a Mercedes and they dont. . .

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Old Blue
Whitey
Your Car (meaning my wifes car)
Goldie Crack Head (the gold car i bought from a crack head)

Have Fun !
RichC
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That must have been an interesting pre-purchase inspection. How low were you able to get them to go on the price.:D

Try saying: "Mercedes Benz One Ninety E Two Point Three Sixteen" . . . rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it? :D

Was it the late great Herb Caen that led the charge on the San Francisco name issue?

IIRC, Mercedes was the name of Emil Jellinek's daughter. He requested an early run of a special model to be named after her.

.....just don't ask me what I had for lunch yesterday. :o

Emil Jellinek was the director of Credit Lyonnais and Counsul General of the Austria-Hungary Empire in Nice, France. He was also a race car driver and an important customer of Daimler, eventually becoming a director at Daimler Motoren Gessellschaft. He also sold Daimler automobiles in France.

He entered the 1899 Nice Speed Trials in a Daimler Phoenix, but used the psuedonym "Monsieur Mercedes".

In 1900, as part of the contract for 36 cars built to Jellinek's order, Wilhelm Maybach agreed to the terms that the cars be named Daimler-Mercedes. The first car debuted February 1901.

If I had kept the white 95 500SL and referred to it as "Whitey"...I'm sure it would have illicited some surprised looks!! :afro: