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Sedans High End Luxury Cars
24697 messages, Last post on Nov 28, 2009 at 3:09 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: tagman (Jan 31, 2007 8:59 pm) Nah! It's only my wife and myself in the vehicle. Although she does like to eat in the car. Crumbs on her seat and floor. My wife is a multi-tasker: she can eat and harass me at the same time!  I never eat and drink in the car. Thus, I couldn't care less about BMW's ridiculous cup holders. I am always amused at folks who concentrate so much on the BMW cup holders. Aren't they missing the point? 
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Replying to: tagman (Jan 30, 2007 9:07 pm) I also like the Range Rover and its rectangular matrix arrangement of the controls plus the angular posture of the dash with its forward rake. It's pragmatic. Everything works together without one single element trying to upstage the other. |
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Replying to: lexusguy (Jan 30, 2007 11:00 pm) Merc, I need an answer from you on this one, sir. Help me come to terms with it. 
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Replying to: tayl0rd (Jan 31, 2007 12:27 pm) Was it 11? For some reason I thought it was 8. I don't know, I just think Veyron is at a point with it's specs that will not be exceeded. It's gotta end somewhere. Will be interesting to watch. I find those auctions entertaining even though garage queens are not my thing.
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Replying to: drfill (Jan 31, 2007 5:28 pm) I never cared for Cage as an actor.
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Replying to: designman (Feb 01, 2007 6:17 am) |
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Replying to: lexusguy (Feb 01, 2007 7:26 am) Really? I kind of like the look. When I sat in one recently, I never once got a bargain basement impression. It was all black with a dark wood, and it looked very elegant and upscale... traditional and classic in appearance as compared to, say, ultra-modern or contemporary. I saw nothing cheap about the quality of the knobs and switches, either, just that more traditional style, that's all... appropriate, IMO, for a car like this. Here's two interior pics of the Bentley Continental GT... neither one is like the one I saw, which I liked better than these, but these do give the overall idea: By contrast, look at the sleek, contemporary look of the CL... very nice and appropriate for such a sleek coupe.  IMO, both interiors fit their respective cars. Would love to own either one, which ain't gonna happen. TagMan
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Replying to: lexusguy (Feb 01, 2007 7:26 am) Hmm, that's just not accurate. ...and some of its buttons are so bad even Lexus wouldn't use them. It looks bargain basement compared to the CL. Well I think you're focusing on materials again. I'm considering the form and only the form. I have no problem criticizing material quality but it's kind of like criticizing a sand sculpture because it wasn't made out of marble. To me, most of the the art is in the sculpture. One more analogy for the CL centerstack... it has the bearing of a window air conditioner. At least the latter has pure functional value. I struggle to find aesthetic value in vents, yet they chose to make them the focal point, framing that small analog clock in a most curious, unbalanced manner.
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Replying to: designman (Feb 01, 2007 6:26 am) There may only be 8 left now. Saleen is near completing an S7R that supposedly is going to trounce the Veyron's numbers. But Bugatti is working on a 272MPH Veyron. Fifteen years from now, someone will have released a 300MPH street car!  That's Top Fuel dragster territory, albeit not nearly attaining that speed as quickly!  I'm with ya on the garage queens, though. I have much more respect for the guys that DRIVE their classics. Jay Leno is my hero!
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Replying to: designman (Feb 01, 2007 6:27 am) Raising Arizona was one of his best works. A hilarious movie, IMO. 
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