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Hot drat, thats nice. The only thing better would be a two-door version. I have a hard-on for impractical designs though.
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Blacknose posted:Pretty sure A/C is standard in every non shitbox car in Europe. The rest probably explains it though.
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A5H posted:Everyone should be making poo poo light and awesome. You can get through safety without weight. yeah, but have you compared the interior of a new golf versus a golf II? cars today are a lot bigger than they were 20 years ago, and have a lot more in them. all the multimedia crap, fancy seats, complete interior paneling and sound dampening is pretty heavy, but people want it. then there's the 15 airbags, reinforced doors, 18" wheels, etc, etc, etc. all this stuff is in there because people shop for the car with the most features, never mind if they'll ever actually need it.
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Oct 14, 2010 15:24
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The b-class is a 5 seat compact hatchback, that BMW town and country is a 7 seat minivan. It's not even a stretched SUV like the GL class. Close comparison would be the Viano or whatever MB's minivan is called.
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Feb 12, 2015 02:02
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Mr. Apollo posted:Is the grill on the RAM supposed look like a snout with nostrils? kind of appropriate that it looks like a pig's nose, IMO.
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Feb 14, 2015 21:38
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El Scotch posted:I cheered when I saw Mercedes was making new straight-sixes; I was immediately repulsed that they want to wrap them in every self-driving and safety gizmo they possibly can. I can't wait for self-driving cars, frankly. being able to read the news or whatever on my way to work while i have a coffee? yes please.
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Jul 22, 2015 04:25
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Wheeee posted:Lexus is for people smart enough to care about quality. Lexus is for people born without taste.
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Aug 11, 2015 03:17
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HotCanadianChick posted:Reminder: this car costs $20k: That's all well and good, but will it be a rusty piece of poo poo before the lease expires?
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Aug 11, 2015 14:24
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I live in western Canada, which is sort of rust-belly, but I see more rusty Mazda tooling around than anything else. There's no way I'd buy a Mazda 3, for example, because literally every one I see that's 5 years old is rusting. Too bad, because they're great looking cars and I want one 
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Aug 11, 2015 19:48
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It's objectively true. Better mileage, faster acceleration, more efficient. All manuals have left is how people feel about them, and I'm guessing we're the last generation of driver's who really care. No one misses hand crank starters or ox-carts either.
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Sep 12, 2015 22:57
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skipdogg posted:Semi comedy option, get an Ariel Atom and put a built turbo 4 banger in the back An LSx fits where a turbo-four would, right? 
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Sep 15, 2015 01:02
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PCOS Bill posted:Neat, which AWD turbo hot hatch do BMW, Audi, and MB make? 235i, S3, and CLA/GLA45AMG? 235i isnt reall a hot hatch, but eh, its 45K for AWD version. S3 is 41K ish CLA45 is 48K. RS starts at 36K. none of those are really "hatches" though
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Sep 19, 2015 03:10
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Powershift posted:The mercedes minivan gets a pass because they made a version with the 500hp 6.2l V8. There's a new Mercedes minivan around here, dude.  500 horse V8 not on the options list.
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Nov 7, 2015 07:24
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priznat posted:RIP R class. I thought they looked pretty cool. Four full-size seats on the inside was pretty baller, too. Engine bay is cramped as hell though.
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Nov 7, 2015 08:33
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PT6A posted:The new Merc engines do, and they're zippy as gently caress. I was really surprised how fast the diesel engine could get my Dad's ML up to speed, for a fairly small engine in a fairly big SUV. Also: going from a standard to an automatic is freaky when there's that kind of power around because all of a sudden "oh, gently caress me, it just downshifted!" and you're flying. The diesel V6s haul rear end and do it with awesome mileage. too bad the vehicles they are installed in cost somewhere in the neighborhood of what, 60-100 grand?
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Nov 17, 2015 05:53
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PT6A posted:It's not a column shifter in the traditional sense, it's more like a little stalk that works like a turn signal or a cruise control stalk (on cars that use that system). much better than toyota's retarded vestigial shifter on the CT200H and whatever else it's on.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Looks like the same mode selector for the hybrid drive that's been on the Prius for over a decade now. What's the problem with it other than not liking hybrids? I don't care if it's combustion, hybrid, or electric, but that shifter just felt crummy to me. Either a column shift or a normal sized console shifter for me, I really didn't like needing to use two fingers to use it.
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Mar 16, 2016 19:30
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I've seen plenty of broken/shattered panoramic roof glass. Have fun cleaning glass crumbs out of your headliner if it ever happens to you.
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Just checked out the new Cadillac CT6, holy poo poo, it's nice. I poked around a bunch of luxobarges at the local car show, and the caddy was the only one that felt like a rival to the benzes. Hope the interiors hold up over time, because for the first time in my life I want a caddy.
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Apr 12, 2016 14:25
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Kraftwerk posted:I used to fantasize about the new C-Class with the Turbo V6 (C400 or C450 AMG or whatever). But since I read about all the kinds of quality issues Mercedes has with door seals etc I realized the Fusion Sport is the best car to get if you want something nice and long term. What door seal issues? At least the seat leather isn't expelling mystery oil when it's cold anymore.
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Jul 30, 2016 16:02
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But it already has turbos......how about a Shelby version?
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fridge corn posted:The probably 100+ years of shared experience of the Ferrari technicians I've been speaking with all this week disagree with you I know several Germans who are Mercedes technicians with like 70 years between three of them who will swear up and down that Mercedes makes the best, most reliable cars on earth and nothing else is worth owning. What I’m saying is, they may not be entirely unbiased.
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