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Old 05-06-2008, 11:17 AM   #11
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As much i'd love to see that title goes to the SLK but sadly it was Honda CRX who deputed the hard folding roof
Uh uh, the CRX had a detachable roof not one which fold with the press of a button
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Certainly shows...there everywhere
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Old 05-06-2008, 12:12 PM   #13
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As much i'd love to see that title goes to the SLK but sadly it was Honda CRX who deputed the hard folding roof
Sorry but it's a 1930's Peugeot (Eclipse I think)... Very unreliable however, and a one-piece roof that takes all the boot. But it's the first car featuring the idea of a retractable steel-roof.

The CRX, from what I know, is more a Targa with power roof isn't it? So hardly a real CC. The C-pillar always stays in place.

The SLK is the first "modern" CC with a real full-size cabrio feeling, and a folding metal-roof in several pieces (two, actually). It's the one who showed the way to all others.

BTW... I prefer the original SLK to the actual one (even FL)...
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Sorry but it's a 1930's Peugeot (Eclipse I think)... Very unreliable however
........and up until today Peugeots still are.

I didn't know of the Eclipse. What a engineering nightmare. Great idea, not so good execution. The compartment for stashing the roof in during a hot day in Cannes is like half the car's lenght!


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........and up until today Peugeots still are.
Ahaha that is a good point...

However imagine the shock when this car was released!! instead of the classic fabric-roof, hardly waterproof and absolutely not protective from wind or cold, to move by hand at least at two persons...

And the brilliantness of the mechanism, it's a gorgeous piece of machinery I find. One person can retract the roof quite easily it seems... How elegantly in this red-carpet compartment...

However it was utterly sensitive and never worked properly from what I know, but the idea is brilliant and the realization is really ahead of its time, very modern I find.

The car itself is quite elegant, and it very well could be one of the first pick-up based on a car...
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Love the car in your Avatar, it is an all-tme Benz favorite. If I remember right I have a 1994 or 1995 W124 E-Class brocuhure with that same picture of an E420.

I liked the first generation SLK, but would have never, ever bought one. The current generation however is much more desireable, especially the FL 350.

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I got the pic from the MBUSA archives and it's listed as the E420 so you are right on the money.
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