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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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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 21, 2006 2:46 pm) Some basic engineering knowledge would have informed us that automotive sound insulation is tuned to screened out certain frequencies and letting in others . . . for example, even in a "quiet as vault" car, the sirens of ambulances and fire engines can easily be heard . . . it's the cars with loud wind, road and drive train noises that block out ambulances and fire engine sirens.
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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 21, 2006 12:50 pm)  Yes the S600 is quite a performer and will surprise many a sports car. I'm more interested in your first impressions the S8 when it arrives, it is sort of an exotic in this class. M |
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Replying to: lexusguy (Aug 21, 2006 4:13 pm) M
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Replying to: syswei (Aug 19, 2006 5:38 pm) Their upcoming schedule if anyone wanted to know: http://www.pbs.org/mpt/motorweek/upcomingshows.shtml M |
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Replying to: merc1 (Aug 22, 2006 12:56 am) I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Perhaps there simply wont be an '07 GS430, and the GS460 will arrive as an early '08 model. |
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Replying to: lexusguy (Aug 21, 2006 4:13 pm)
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Replying to: syswei (Aug 22, 2006 3:34 am) |
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Another review of the LS460, this one from Andrew Frankel of the "Times Online" was posted on August 20th. The review was quite positive. He even called the vehicle, "extraordinary." However, he had to spoil things a bit by saying it's "A car for the head, not the heart." He gave it 4 out of 5 stars which is just about as good as it gets with the sedate "Times of London." I caught the "MotorWeek" first look at the LS 460 on PBS the other day. They did everything but reveal driving impressions. Quite frustrating, but it wasn't supposed to be a test drive. They showed a comprehensive view of the exterior and interior and the vehicle in motion. They also showed the LS460L. I must say, I was impressed with the appearance of the LS460 as shown on that program-a huge improvement over the current version. |
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Replying to: blkhemi (Aug 21, 2006 2:46 pm) In that box are six infrared eyes logging the position of your features so it can build up a picture of your mug. It doesn’t matter how tall or short you are or from which ethnic group. It can see you in the pitch black even when you can’t see it and you won’t faze it by donning dark glasses. And while it’s watching you, so another set of eyes, in the form of radar and cameras, is watching the road. This way the car can not only spot danger approaching from the back or front of the car, it can also tell whether you’re looking out of the side window or are fast asleep at the wheel as you hurtle towards this life-threatening hazard. If it figures that your attention is not where it should be, it will flash lights, bleep at you and nudge the brakes until it decides you’re back in control. And if you don’t snap out of your stupor it won’t just nudge the brakes, it’ll slam them on to save you from yourself. While some will see this as an unnecessary interference and worry about a car with the ability to exercise such a degree of control over its driver, it’s hard to argue against a system that is only ever active when it’s trying to save your life. And that’s not all this extraordinary car will do. While self-braking vehicles are not new, systems from Honda and Mercedes require the obstacle to be metallic, which is fine if it’s a car you’re about to wallop but entirely ineffective when a child runs out in front of you. The Lexus, by contrast, sees all, or so its maker claims. It will stiffen the suspension in anticipation of you trying to swerve around the danger and it even has eyes in the back of its head, or the rear bumper to be more precise, permanently scanning for something about to come smashing into the back of you. If it reckons that’s on the cards, it will move your headrest forward and up to minimise whiplash.
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