Neither does Acura...

Acura should’ve hired Citroën to design the new NSX. It would’ve launched 5 years ago and wouldn’t suck.

Right there with you! Ranted about this elsewhere in the comments. It’s just so...bland. It’s like they made a word-cloud of all cars’ trim brandings and then smushed together the two biggest terms.

“EcoSport” has the be the dullest, laziest, lamest name for a vehicle; a mashup of two contrived marketing buzzwords applied to another entry in the oversaturated crossover market, neither of which say anything about the vehicle.

Please, will someone at Ford walk over to the marketing department an pee in the coffee of the person/s responsible for this horrible name. EcoSport? Ugh.

Just another baseless Motorsports/F1 article from Stref Schrader, disconnected from any real Motorsports reporting/journalism that contributes nothing but bandwagon opinions and generalist claims. Nice work.

I wasn’t trying to be difficult, I was just addressing what you said. But I understand now that you didn’t mean “two AMGs”, you meant “one AMG and one half-assed AMG”...which I do agree with.

+1

It is ironic reading his name after talking to the guy.

So we clearly agree that Mercedes is in fact watering down AMG more by renaming the C450 to a C43?

Then drive a C63. There is no reason for a C450 to have the name C43 AMG. That is like saying the S600 should be called an S43 so you can go to AMG track days lol. Maybe we should call the base level C300 a C37 AMG just so people can get the AMG ownership experience. Ridiculous.

She could have just had a C450. The car absolutely does not need an AMG name.

NO, I am not suggesting that the M235i is different from the 135i in terms of the performance level. BUT notice that BMW put Mxxxi instead of Mx. Mercedes had the C450 listed as the C450 AMG sport. That was acceptable and the same thing that BMW did. Now they have gone full asshole and put C43 on a C450 and calling it…

Why does she need an AMG to begin with?

Fintail isn’t getting it.

Wow, you are completely missing what is going on. Audi and BMW clearly differentiate their M and Quattro RS cars from the rest of the line up. Mercedes is intentionally blurring the line to confuse buyers. They want people to think the C43 is a step above the S5 and 440i. It isn’t.

It is going to be funny when the…

How can you say “they’re still the most expensive Mercedes a person can buy” when the C43 is around the same price as the C450? The C43 AMG and the C450 are standard Mercedes cars.

Still not a fan of the “just stick it here” screen that Mercedes uses. Unless it folds away in the dash it should never look worse then an AM mounted unit.

The C cars look so much like the S cars.