Can you tell the difference?

[Boink]

Ah, the 70s marketing campaign. <snort>

 

[Basil]

Guarantee if you drove them both you'd tell the difference!

 

[Boink]

Hehehe... yup.

Aside from looks, the inside of the Mercedes smells like leather and good cologne while the Granada smells like vinyl dishwashing gloves dipped in elk pee; when driven, the Mercedes is smooth and quiet, while the Granada ride is like driving a dumpster and it sounds like one too. The Mercedes hubcaps are made at the same place that makes high-end electronics enclosures, while the Granada hubcaps are made as an afterthought at the same place that stamps out kazoos.

There is not a single ‘78 Granada still on the road, whereas one often sees a vintage Mercedes 280 still looking grand and cruising like a champ.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Having driven both, yes, you would. KNOWING folks who had to deal with both after 30K, then 60K, guess which one got dumped first?
Of course that depends on whether or not you can handle regular $10K services or more.

 

[coldplugs]

I remember that ad. I thought it was pathetic. It reminds me of the "dollar store" off-brands that mimic name brands in their labeling & logos to trick people into buying them.

 

[Boink]

There may not be a single one left, but you can start building your own Granada with the hubcaps (even if dented):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/one-genuin...7340ecbe27da106dfc57b4&pid=100754&rk=1&rkt=1&

Maybe the rest with Legos.

 

[AngliaGT]

I always get the two confused.....

 

[Gliderman8]

This just in from Spock.....

 

[Boink]

$5,000! Seems like far too much for a prank... but there it is! https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/ford/granada/1859510.html
Ghia bodied?

Granadas were good for:

• Drivers who could no longer recall where they’d parked.
• Drivers who would get home and blanked out on the groceries out the the trunk for two weeks.
• Drivers who really thought a Granada actually looked and drove like a Mercedes 280, which they had never seen in person.
• Drivers whose licenses were pulled a couple of years earlier due to cognitive issues.
• Those giveaways on game shows where the car spun on a turntable and balloons fell from above, giving the winning contestant the brief illusion that they might have won something of value.

 

[John Turney]

$5,000! Seems like far too much for a prank... but there it is! https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/ford/granada/1859510.html
Ghia bodied?...[FONT=&quot].[/FONT]

Only made it 20,000 miles before giving up!

 

[RestoreThemAll]

Dad's 1964 Mercedes had 280k miles on the odometer and still handled fine in the late 1970s. Not so the Granada. I was in the car with my friend when he wrecked his in about 1978 if I recall right. Never been in a car that handled that bad. The AMC Gremlin that we were following took the corner like nothing, and they weren't anything to brag about.

 

[LarryK]

A lady I have worked with bought a new Granada. The interior said Monarch. There is a gentleman in a town South of me, drives an old red Granada three times a week to keep it running. It has no rust, but paint is faded, with 6 auto.

 

[pdplot]

But it didn't have the sweep of Corinthian leather (with Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez playing in the background.

 

[Boink]

But it didn't have the sweep of Corinthian leather (with Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez playing in the background.

I don't remember the Rodrigo piece playing in that commercial. Was it really?

 

[John Turney]

But it didn't have the sweep of Corinthian leather (with Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez playing in the background.

Wasn't that for Chrysler?

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Wasn't that for Chrysler?

Yup. Ricardo Montalban and the Chrysler Cordoba. "I like what they've done to my car."

 

[pdplot]

There you go. Remember "Suddenly it's 1960"? That was the 1957 Plymouth with the tailfins.

 

[Boink]

Yep... by-golly that's from the second moment of the Rodrigo piece (though it is a twisted version).