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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: drfill (Nov 28, 2006 7:22 am) Doc you never had a point to begin with. You brought up a seat in a car that was designed in the 80's. The only thing you've shown here is Mercedes' progress. A S-Class seat is supposed to be plush, now go sit in a CLK or any other lower level Benz and you'll see that most of (not all) of that firmness is still there. Mercedes' seats used to have their own "suspension" and they were part of the ride, but things change and that change was primarily brough on by cost. Again anyone who owned an older Mercedes will tell you this. I didn't make any comment about idrive so you've misquoted me yet again. That was someone else. M |
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Replying to: dewey (Nov 28, 2006 8:11 am) Why? Because of price! Bingo! Their will likely be another round of comparos when the S450 comes out and it will be against the LS460 (no L). In this case of this comparo on this day, a 93K Lexus that doesn't have the driver skills that it should come with considering it carried a premium over the Audi and BMW couldn't cut it. A 10K price advantage isn't one at this level, now Lexus' usual 15-20K or more price advantage would have put it higher up in the rankings I think but still not the winner with the other issues they found which had nothing to do with it being a pre-production model. M |
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Replying to: hpowders (Nov 28, 2006 9:39 am) Well all behinds vary...lol! Neither seat is supposed to appeal to a "serious driver", but I did find that S550 seat was a tad bit better. Considering what mush the LS430's seats were anything in the LS460 would be an improvement. M
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Replying to: houdini1 (Nov 28, 2006 1:29 pm) To be fair this is true. I found the brakes in my CLK to be grabby and hard to modulate at first, but now I'm a pro at it. M |
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Replying to: esf (Nov 28, 2006 2:57 pm) Heck no. I have never seen a bigger group of clueless people (on both sides of the aisle) in my life. I like to read it sometimes in order to appreciate Edmunds and Germancarzone, but thats about it. I'd never post there. M |
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Replying to: dewey (Nov 28, 2006 3:47 pm) Won't this thing explode if hit hard from the rear? M |
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Replying to: merc1 (Nov 28, 2006 9:22 pm) The A8 driver's seat was better than the S or LS-comfortable but firmer. If I was shopping for a HELC (instead of a 335i coupe), it would come down to the BMW 7 vs the Audi A8.
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Had a point, made a point, and you confirmed it for me, so thank you on that.  DrFill |
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That is not a well kept secret. My weakness for anything manual is well-established. I would lay my life on the line for a 550i, but the cursed iDrive is standard, so I shall live quite a long time, I figure. I SHOULD be an avid BMW fan, but their interiors are atrocious. Couldn't see myself spending years inside those prisons.  Someday, BMW will complete the circle. Someday. DrFill
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Replying to: drfill (Nov 29, 2006 5:38 am) If you were REALLY a BMW fan, you'd be in a BMW and you would not be going "Woo, woo, woo "over a Lexus! TagMan |
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