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Sedans High End Luxury Cars
24700 messages, Last post on Dec 01, 2009 at 12:24 PM
You are in the Sedans Forum. Your Hosts are pat & karens
Let's try to define this forum as being limited to luxury performance vehicles where the mainstream version in a typical configuration has an MSRP of at least $60k.
A luxury vehicle with a base price of $59k qualifies because it would typically be bought with some additional equipment, bringing the MSRP over $60k.
Vehicles like the E, 5, A6, M, or GS, even if available in certain versions over $60k, don't qualify because they are cars from companies that have higher end cars in their lineups.
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This interesting point about a car having a "soul", . . . I went to dictionary.com to see what was listed as the definitions, and most of the definitions were about the obvious spiritual meanings, but this one got my attention: sole = The central or integral part; the vital core So, a car DOES have a soul. And what it has always meant to many is that some cars have a "special feeling" when driven and have "unique characteristics" that "identify that particular car" or type of car for what it is. When I was younger, I owned a Ferrari (I needed to get it out of my system I think) and it had qualities unlike ANYTHING I had ever driven. It had a soul. And so did my Carrera (no longer own, either). BMW's have a soul, Mercedes have a soul, as most cars do, of course. Not too long ago, on the autospies website, there was discussion regarding the problems with the Mercury vehicles. It was suggested that the problem with the Mercury vehicles was that they had no soul! And that was their very problem. Interesting indeed, and maybe true? So who ever says a car has no soul . . . stands corrected by the dictionary definition as well as the obvious historical expressive use of the word as it applies to cars. TagMan
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Replying to: blckislandguy (Jan 12, 2006 7:01 pm) My clients dont care what I drive as long as my investment advice makes them rich enough to afford a lifetime of high end marques.
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Replying to: dewey (Jan 12, 2006 7:44 pm)
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Replying to: tagman (Jan 12, 2006 7:46 pm) Scott Nelson, an analyst for Honda's planning group in Torrance, Calif., says: "In a few years, voice-recognition will be good enough to let you say, 'Find me a Beatles tune,' and the stereo will search satellite radio or programmed music and find one." |
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Replying to: tagman (Jan 12, 2006 7:34 pm) If you have to ask, you haven't driven one of these vehicles.
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Replying to: hpowders (Jan 12, 2006 8:05 pm) I would agree the feeling is probably most obvious in a high performance vehicle, but I would not go so far as to say all ultra-luxury cruisers lack soul. It's more likely just "different". If you have to ask, you haven't driven one of these vehicles. YES . . . or . . . as I believe . . . that some people simply do not "connect" with their car! |
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Replying to: tagman (Jan 12, 2006 7:34 pm) Now let's move on.... Merc1's post on predictions is a good one and well worth our attention and comments.
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Replying to: hpowders (Jan 12, 2006 6:48 pm) Call it soul or an indefinable something. But BMW's got it. Some people can see Tinkerbell. Some can't. What can I say? I think HELM is quite a materialist pursuit, not that of the spiritualists. People who see Tinkerbell are an even smaller minority than those who see Santa Clause or tooth-fairy 
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Replying to: tagman (Jan 12, 2006 7:34 pm) Mercury vehicle certain has a soul by that definition; without the drive train there would be no functional Mercury vehicle. IMHO, that definition cheapens "soul" in this context.
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