AutoArt Mercedes-Benz S550

[nosliw2004]

here she is diecast fan 84. stupid exoticar didn't even send out a tracking number so this just surprisingly arrived. this is my first autoart that i am very dissapointed with. yup all those rumors about the horrible quality on this car are true.
here's a list:
dogleg hinges
rear doors don't open
no carpet
no seatbelts (not even molded in with the seats)
the switches inside the car havn't been detailed(my maisto cls has that)
no grains on the wood(my maisto cls has that)
barely any headlight detail
no metal break discs
no metal transfer badging on the trunk. only the benz star is on the trunk and is painted like maisto's cars
i mean from autoart this is totally what you wouldn't expect. but the exterior for the most part is autoart quality but this whole package i would say is not worth $100.

my plans for this car are to take it apart and detail the car. in a foreign magazine from germany or england they had an article on the new s-class and they said that in the future for the trim would be optional black piano laquer so i might repaint the wood black still not sure. you guys tell me what you think of the laquer idea and what you guys think of the car and why autoart did this? when i saw the people in china making this car in the car and driver magazine a couple months ago i was like wow that car looks detailed. i have to get that. now i mean there isn't even any carpet. and does anyone know where i can get grey felt from (for carpet on this car)?





the new 382hp 5.5liter v-8.
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dogleg hinge


notice lack of detail on the wood(no grain)


notice lack of detail on grain once again and how the switches weren't painted silver like on the real car








anything strang?

no carpet

these next few pics are other autoart ineriors. i just wanted to show how those other interiors are much more detailed and those cars where much cheaper as well.
maybach 62 (you can buy it from ebay for about $80)








mercedes-benz cl500 lorinser ($55 thru exoticar)


this is the maisto mercedes-benz cls500 that i keep on talking about. the wood grain is quite nice. ($20 off ebay)


next to old s-classes. on the left is the s600 pullman from sun star. on the right is the maisto playerz s500:

[rasta_dubbed]

tsk tsk tsk... thats bad...

if i was the owner of that diecast.. ill just modify it...

just an idea..

[Hobbes]

Wow, that's bad.

I think the black wood would be a good idea.

As for the grey felt, I've heard you can get them from a crraft store or the crafts section at Wal-Mart...

[diecastfan84]

So this is not an updated version I hoped it would be after all! The exterior still looks good but the interior....ugh....and the sealed rear doors really turn me away from buying this one. I guess I'll be waiting for the 04' s class. Great review by the way!

[DUBSRUS2]

WOW. WTF? Why AA did that to S500?
I was wating for this new BENZ.
But after I've seeing what AA did to it , which is nothing special My MAISTO S55 looks battter.
I'm not paying $100 for that, and why is it $100 anyway. AA is like no more then $65-75. Anyway I'm not paing even that for that car.
I love S class. I love BENZ'S.
But I'm gonna wate on till MAISTO will make one or some one else,I'll pay like $20-25 ,I'll repaint if I have to ,I'll do some custom job inside and out and I'm shure that it will look 200% batter then this AA NEW S500.

[nosliw2004]

yeah it's sad. i noticed on the bottom of my S550 is says autoart contemporary. does you guyses gs430 say that or is it a millenium edition or what? yeah so far my plans is just to do detailing on the interior and i was thinking about calling autoart and see if i could order the lowenhart wheels from them that is used on the maybach 57. do you think i can do that?

hey dubsrus2 how long will it take you to do that project? few years? lol. how is that s-class lorinser coming along. havn't seen that in a while. i want to see results man!

another thing: on the wood, i have fake wood that is a sticker and i can cut it to the shape i want or do you think i should do black laquer?

[Legolas PT]

oh my...just looks like an maisto...fOOck... =(

[G35XAndTrailBlazer]

That looks like crap.

I have the Maybach 63. it the green one with the same interior as yours. =)

[Hobbes]

Originally Posted by nosliw2004

another thing: on the wood, i have fake wood that is a sticker and i can cut it to the shape i want or do you think i should do black laquer?

Can I get a quick look at the sticker? I still want to see the black laquer but if the sticker looks good then go for it.

[G35XAndTrailBlazer]

It really isent that bad, Autoart just needs to work on it.

[Legolas PT]

hum...in the second photo, whats the ar ahead of the MB?

[G35XAndTrailBlazer]

Im gonna guess MB A Class

[nosliw2004]

no that's my minichamps m-class. it's in my hummer and other cars from xmas thread. http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...=498355&page=2

wait here's a pic

[nosliw2004]

here's a clearer first pic. i took 2 pictures of the front 3/4 of the car but i accidentally put in the blurry one then i edited like 4 times and it finallly showed the clearer pic but now it's the blurry one so here's the clear pic



here's the engine pic. it wasn't showing up on the first post in this thread.


no need for words




here's what it would look like if the a-class was infront of the s550









g35x do you want to think twice about what you said about the interior?

[DUBSRUS2]

Oh man my lorinser still at the same stage and like i said before my biggest problem is : i have no time and i m working on about 14 1/18 cars at the same time. plus my custom 1/24 NYPD models, some of you saw them, i know without pics it's just talk.
i posted my bmw 645 project befor, pics were taken with my cell.ph.cam. so they weren't that good, i will take pics of all of my projects so you all can see what im working on and i have couple of cars that r finished. like i said without pics it's just me talking no proof but i m gonna try to do it as soon as i can. and the good reason for is that this forum is comming back to life.

Now speaking about AA.
its looks to me that when they were $50-65 they did a better job.
and if you telling me that on maybach they did the same kind of job as a s550,then i'd better spend money on hot wheels maybach cause it's like 4 times less money, even its a bit out of scale.
and about AA S550 i think you should buy MAISTO S55 or S500 and just use it for parts on s550, like seat belts and thing like that.
and about you calling AA you can try but i don't think they would send it to u you. i think i saw them on ebay, but that was a couple of months ago.
Now question.
will maisto make 1/18 new benz s500?