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Solved - NEH 4512: Mercedes-Benz W201 prototype winter testing
« on: February 19, 2016, 07:16:02 AM »
Identify this car correctly for 1 point:

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Re: NEH 4512
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2016, 05:29:45 AM »
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Re: NEH 4512
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2016, 05:55:19 AM »
Mercedes-Benz model series W 201, development history. Winter testing of a camouflaged prototype

The rear gave it away, it clearly was a Merc, first guess a 190 prototype, if not my second guess would have been a W124.

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Re: NEH 4512
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2016, 05:59:04 AM »
Mercedes-Benz model series W 201, development history. Winter testing of a camouflaged prototype

The rear gave it away, it clearly was a Merc, first guess a 190 prototype, if not my second guess would have been a W124.

Exactly.
With those proportions it really couldn't be anything else; it positively shouts "Mercedes-Benz"!
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Re: Solved - NEH 4512: Mercedes-Benz W201 prototype winter testing
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2016, 03:45:45 PM »
The badge on the front says Ushido which was meant to make the spy photographers think it was Japanese.

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Re: Solved - NEH 4512: Mercedes-Benz W201 prototype winter testing
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2016, 06:26:16 PM »
The badge on the front says Ushido which was meant to make the spy photographers think it was Japanese.

I've spent the last month trying to work out what the badge said!
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