vitaminG
07-09-2011, 03:19 PM
This made me LOL
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/07/ml350-cop-car.jpg
http://www.carnewschina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/benz-police-crv-honda-china-21.jpg
Report: Chinese police caught rebadging Mercedes as Honda to avoid taxpayer ire; Autoblog Canada (http://ca.autoblog.com/2011/07/09/report-chinese-police-caught-rebadging-mercedes-as-honda-to-avo/)
Perhaps there was once a time when the Chinese citizenry couldn't tell the difference between a Mercedes-Benz and a Honda. In today's car-crazy China, however, this is clearly no longer the case. That didn't stop police in Fangchenggang (part of Guangxi Province) from performing a low-tech badge swap on a Mercedes-Benz ML350 in a bid to make it look like a run-of-the-mill Honda, right down to CR-V emblem on the rear liftgate.
Car News China reports that the police did it to fool taxpayers into thinking that the department didn't spend big bucks on a Benz. An ML350 reportedly costs around 900,000 yuan ($133,000 CDN), which is a lot more than Honda CR-V, which runs around 200,000 yuan ($30,000 or so). As you may have guessed, the ridiculous (and failed) cover-up attempt by the cops angered residents whole lot more than if they'd simply rolled out, baller style, in the Mercedes from the beginning.
[Source: Car News China (http://www.carnewschina.com/2011/07/08/police-in-china-changes-mercedes-benz-ml350-into-honda-cr-v/)]
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/07/ml350-cop-car.jpg
http://www.carnewschina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/benz-police-crv-honda-china-21.jpg
Report: Chinese police caught rebadging Mercedes as Honda to avoid taxpayer ire; Autoblog Canada (http://ca.autoblog.com/2011/07/09/report-chinese-police-caught-rebadging-mercedes-as-honda-to-avo/)
Perhaps there was once a time when the Chinese citizenry couldn't tell the difference between a Mercedes-Benz and a Honda. In today's car-crazy China, however, this is clearly no longer the case. That didn't stop police in Fangchenggang (part of Guangxi Province) from performing a low-tech badge swap on a Mercedes-Benz ML350 in a bid to make it look like a run-of-the-mill Honda, right down to CR-V emblem on the rear liftgate.
Car News China reports that the police did it to fool taxpayers into thinking that the department didn't spend big bucks on a Benz. An ML350 reportedly costs around 900,000 yuan ($133,000 CDN), which is a lot more than Honda CR-V, which runs around 200,000 yuan ($30,000 or so). As you may have guessed, the ridiculous (and failed) cover-up attempt by the cops angered residents whole lot more than if they'd simply rolled out, baller style, in the Mercedes from the beginning.
[Source: Car News China (http://www.carnewschina.com/2011/07/08/police-in-china-changes-mercedes-benz-ml350-into-honda-cr-v/)]