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      12-19-2012, 10:23 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by ddk632 View Post
This is very interesting, Scott26.

When the SLK first came out, I always thought the K stood for "Kompressor", or supercharger, as it was initially released as an SLK230 with a supercharged 4-cylinder engine. It even had "Kompressor" on the side of it, my brother got one way back when they just started coming out and hitting the streets.

They don't use supercharged engines anymore as of the 2nd generation SLK, but the K stayed in the model designation. So I guess either i was wrong all that time, or it originally did stand for Kompressor but was later changed to "Klein" or small and is now (obviously) used on other models.
call me crazy, but I've always believed that the SLK was a smaller version of the SL. Therefore I assumed the K to mean Compact (German: Kompakt) as in the smaller version of an SL. A compact version of the SL... get it?
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