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24702 messages, Last post on Dec 17, 2009 at 11:48 AM
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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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Replying to: dewey (Aug 07, 2006 7:06 pm) 
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Replying to: drfill (Aug 08, 2006 4:35 pm) True it isn't much of a risk due to the shared platform, but that platform is shared with the GL and M, NOT the Pacifica. The Pacifica is built on a entirely different platform. M |
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Replying to: maxhonda99 (Aug 08, 2006 6:10 pm) You've got to learn to look at the big picture, the car sold over 50K in its first full year worldwide, that is why Porsche, BMW, Audi, Aston-Martin and even VW are rushing to do something similar. For a car as compromised in the name of style to sell that well for prices above the E-Class equals a big hit. Of course sales are going to cool down once everyone who has to have one gets one, just like the Lexus' equally drooping GS. M
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You had an important debut today, the new X5:       In Depth Article I like it myself, particularly the interior. BMW has gone back to a gear shift lever, but a very trick one of course. M |
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Replying to: tagman (Aug 08, 2006 2:48 pm) Well it seems they haven't given up on the original yet. I'm reading that for 2007 the price has been cut by 5K on both the R350 and R500 and the option packages have been shuffled around like on all other 2007 MB models. We'll have to see if this helps sales. The R320 CDI should help out a little also. M |
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NAD( advertising division from the Better Business Bureau) has requested that MB remove the GL ad below because it may deceive the public on how safe a GL is. They specifically did not like the repeller scene. The NAD must think the public as gullible and foolish . How can anyone take this humorous ad seriously? link title
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Replying to: dewey (Aug 09, 2006 4:27 am) M |
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Replying to: merc1 (Aug 08, 2006 10:37 pm) I saw a picture of what the new 2009 BMW 5 series may look like in the September Automobile Magazine. The styling of this car appears very conservative. Maybe Chris Bangle is under some kind of restraining order and is not allowed to enter any BMW design studios/premises? Designman, it appears BMW is reading your posts.
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Replying to: merc1 (Aug 08, 2006 10:37 pm) The new one looks pretty much like the old one from the side. Not a very exciting re-do, IMO. |
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The MB CL Class. The pains MB takes just to make the audible experience of driving a joy goes beyond what any other car company would do. Over-engineered MBs may be derided here but there are definite advantages in this type of over-engineering. The first-class comfort offered by the new Mercedes-Benz CL-Class is also an audible experience. Thanks to meticulous development work and the most modern testing procedures, the coupé is by far the quietest car in its class. In addition to the noise configuration and sound insulation of the engine, exhaust system and chassis of the new CL-Class, it is the car’s good aero-acoustics in particular that make it a very quiet driving experience for drivers and passengers. As early as the conceptual phase, Mercedes engineers took pains to ensure that the bodyshell was optimally streamlined so that wind noise was reduced. It was with this in mind that they designed the airflow-efficient A-pillars, developed a more rigid bodyshell with reinforced outer surfaces and achieved a new sealing concept for the doors, which is acoustically even more efficient than in the preceding model. This exemplary noise insulation is also helped by the side windows, which have a thickness of six millimetres in the new CL-Class coupé. link title |
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