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24700 messages, Last post on Dec 01, 2009 at 12:24 PM
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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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With all of this LS 460 talk going on with ranting about how the car can park itself, has everyone besides the Euro-Car fans forgotten that the S550 does a much better job at using it's electronic radars?? This is the one and only car that not only governs how far away the car in front of it is, but can come to a complete stop and resume back to the speed set forth before the car came to a complete stop, WITHOUT driver's intervention. Lexus even says on the press release that, "with the drivers input", the car can park with "ease". So let's see. Would I (a), want a car that can stop and resume speeds without the drivers input, or (b), try to let a 215" car parallel park itself only to have to end up parking it myself as the system has to read objects at least a foot away? This is not another LS v. Euro car thing. It just has to be pointed out that because the car can "park" itself does not equate to the best thing since Windows 95.
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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 20, 2006 8:50 am)
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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 20, 2006 8:50 am)  Frankly, given MB's atrocious record with fancy subsystems, I'd be really worried about any system that may lull the driver into thinking the car can take care of driving all on its own . . . both for the driver and the for the motorist in front of it.
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Replying to: syswei (Aug 19, 2006 5:38 pm) M |
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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 20, 2006 8:50 am) M
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Replying to: brightness04 (Aug 20, 2006 9:20 pm) Wow, a car that semi-parks itself is better than a car that follows a cars path AND come to complete stop, fully. Maybe the "pursuit of perfection" has fallen off of MB's cruise radar... BTW: Which electronics that MB has had over the last decade that had an "atrocious" record in which you may be referring? Up until the '07 S550, I've had every gadget MB has put out since 2000, and besides the COMAND problems(similar to the Nav and early Mark Levinson failures of the LS and other Lexus/Toyota models), NOTHING has ever went wrong with the electronics.
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Replying to: merc1 (Aug 20, 2006 9:28 pm) The S600 stats: 0-60 in 4.4 secs?( a scant 0.03 behind the pavement scorching S65 and you save 35-40k) 60-0 in 117 feet(better than the current LS by 18 feet, one car length)? 1/4 mile in 12.9 secs(Vette Z51 and Porsche 911 4S matching with almost double their weight)? The feel of being rode around in the absolute finest HELM on the road today by quite a margin(only the Bentley FS truely compares): Priceless.
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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 21, 2006 12:41 pm) Are you saying that with the MB system, the driver need not steer?
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Replying to: syswei (Aug 21, 2006 1:22 pm) A bit of sarcasm in that statement, uh syswei? Of course he/she has to steer, but their legs can be comfortable without the strenuous workout of mashing an accelerator.
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