Hi all: Now ya'll don't expect the designers to come up with something resembling past 300 letter cars when they do not even know what they are. A couple of years ago, I went to the Auto Show in Los Angeles. I wore a sweat shirt with the 300F emblem painted on the front. I went up to Chrysler's sales desk and the first thing some salesman asked me was, "Is that a Mercedes?" I chewed his posterior out for not knowing the history of his product. I went around to other sales persons and not one of them knew what an early 300 letter car was, even though there were hundreds of pictures of letter cars making up a collage to advertise the 300M. I would suspect that none of the designers were even in diapers when the last letter car was produced. I see pictures all the time of design teams for the Japanese cars in newspapers and magazines and none of them appear to be out of their 20's or early 30's. So, how would one expect the design of a modern letter car to be anything other than folowing the lines of the look-a-like cars on the road today. The ony car I see on the raod today that even gives a hint of yesterday is the Thunderbird. I can visualize the '55-'57 Birds in the new design. So, get you ass in gear Daimler!!!! Give us an appropriate design. Enough fer now! Dan Reitz Northridge, CA 300F [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]