Home▸ Forums▸ MacNN▸ Why does the new SLK 200K deserve its name while it has a 17… Thread Why does the new SLK 200K deserve its name while it has a 1796c.c. engine? MacNN General 5 posts Jul 17, 2004 to Jul 17, 2004 View original thread ↗ #1 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 13:17 MacNN Is it one of those marketing techniques to fool the average customers? #2 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 13:18 MacNN Yes., and it often works. #3 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 13:29 MacNN Why did they call the Chrysler 300M a Chrysler 300 if it only made 280hp? Who knows. - Ca$h #4 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 14:53 MacNN BMW did that with the 3 series engine sizes for ages, not sure if they still do. Put it this way, if you had a choice of buying a car called a 280M or a 300M, you'd get the 300M, right? So they round the numbers up, because it sounds better. #5 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 15:11 MacNN It's smaller than the Mclaren SLK?
#1 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 13:17 MacNN Is it one of those marketing techniques to fool the average customers?
#3 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 13:29 MacNN Why did they call the Chrysler 300M a Chrysler 300 if it only made 280hp? Who knows. - Ca$h
#4 Sat, 17 Jul 2004 - 14:53 MacNN BMW did that with the 3 series engine sizes for ages, not sure if they still do. Put it this way, if you had a choice of buying a car called a 280M or a 300M, you'd get the 300M, right? So they round the numbers up, because it sounds better.
