diff b/w 430 CLK and 430 CLK AMG

[peeyoo]

What is the difference between the 2000 430 CLK and 2000 430 CLK AMG in features and price? Thanks for the help.

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[Petie]

a $50 badge that people get from the dealership....

if you are from a part of the world (outside the US) where the AMG package does not come standard on the 430, then i know you get the aerodynamics and 17" AMG wheels...

[peeyoo]

Thanks for the response Petie. I'm looking at buying a 430 AMG here in the US. You're saying there is nothing different from a regular 430, except the AMG wheels???

[LAMAY123]

I bought a new 2002 CLK 430 and it comes standard w/ AMG bodykit (frnot/rear bumper, side skirts) and AMG 17" wheels

[Petie]

Originally posted by peeyoo
Thanks for the response Petie. I'm looking at buying a 430 AMG here in the US. You're saying there is nothing different from a regular 430, except the AMG wheels???

any CLK430 you buy here in America will be exactly the same, they all have the AMG bodykit and 17" wheels.

[maketwizard]

the 430 w/ the AMG badge gives u an extra 20hp

[vinmanc32]

Most of the owners just go out and spend 35 bucks and get a badge and stick it on there. The badge is suppose to indicate a modified engine since all the other goodies (wheels etc) have logos on them. But I have seen Hondas with AMG badges so looks like its fair game. So you may spend alot less than you thought for your new CLK430AMG.....

[anthem]

I'd have to disagree on the most of the owners thing. Most CLK430 owners do not have an AMG badge on their car. If anything, very very very few do (my bet is that 2% or less CLK owners have an AMG badge). The few that do have an inexplicable complex with their car that they feel they need to call it something that it isn't.

If you're buying an CLK430, don't give the AMG badge any weight whatsoever. Treat the badge like its a bumber sticker - it was tacked on after the fact by the owner and has no bearing to what the car actually is.

[Petie]

Originally posted by anthem
The few that do have an inexplicable complex with their car that they feel they need to call it something that it isn't.

is this true? i agree with the general concensus on putting an AMG badge on your 430, but thats one hell of a generalization dont you think? perhaps the reason they did it is because they think differently than you, and may have a completely different reason altogether for the ///AMG badge....i dont know....

[BANSASN]

What the HELL! All that time I always thought I have increased another 20 more hp by adding the badge. I already added Brabus badge on the left side and Kleemann on the right side to add another 40 hp guaranteed.

BANSASN

[anthem]

Originally posted by Petie
is this true? i agree with the general concensus on putting an AMG badge on your 430, but thats one hell of a generalization dont you think? perhaps the reason they did it is because they think differently than you, and may have a completely different reason altogether for the ///AMG badge....i dont know....

The 'inexplicable' is where I denoted that I didn't know what or why. Notice that I didn't put what kind of complex. Whether that is inferiority or what, dunno and aren't going to venture there.

But I don't know of any reason to put the AMG badge there unless your trying to associate a car with something it isn't. It's no different than putting lingenfelter, dinan, brabus or whatever. If it belonged on the car then the tuner would have put it on the car. If it wasn't on the car to begin with, then yes, you're putting something on it that is representing something it isn't. . . . Maybe there is a completely different reason that I'm not familiar with, but since the number is so so low in terms of the total number of AMG badged CLK's (how many out of 100 do you think go and re-badge ??) - we can only guess at what their true intent was.

[techbike]

If your name was Anthony Michael Greene or Ana Maria Giulianni or something like that, you might get away with it but otherwise, there's nothing like a real AMG. You'll feel it.

[Ferrari]

Hey!!

My name is Micahel Greene!!!! WTF does that mean

[theine]

Nothing wrong with puting and ///AMG badge on a CLK-430 as long as it has the AMG body kit, AMG wheels, so it is a CLK-430 AMG. It is the same thing if you put a Brabus body kit and wheels and a Brabus badge, or..... Lorinser or..... Carlsson.

[techbike]

Originally posted by Ferrari
Hey!!

My name is Micahel Greene!!!! WTF does that mean

no offense, but then, you could wear the venerable MG badge (the one with the letters enclosed in the octagon for the sweet little cars manufactured by BMC.

:p

[BANSASN]

I agree with THEINE. absolutely.

BANSASN

[FrankW]

back to the topic. there is no CLK430 AMG in anywhere of the world. CLK430 with AMG sport pkg, YES. CLK430 AMG, NO.

all the CLK430 sold in the US has the sport pkg standard with the AMG bodykit, and 17' AMG rims, but the suspension and engine is not tuned by AMG.

like Petie said, the AMG badge is $50 dollar at any MB dealership.

theine, yes, there is nothing wrong with badging your own car, but the car is not a AMG or Brabus or Carlsson or Lorinser unless it is properly tuned (engine, suspension, kits, etc) by AMG or Brabus or Carlsson or Lorinser. A car is none of these name without the engine. Hopefully those with badge will not go around and tell people that they have a AMG or Brabus or Carlsson or Lorinser because i would expect tuned engine by the badging named company.