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According to MB website, current lease offer on S 560 4Matic is $1499 a month plus $8793 down payment without taxes and fees for 36 month. So in three years the person leasing will pay at least $62800 for the lease on a car with MSRP of about $109k. I think they are doing all right with it.

Truck overcompensation only comes into play when they are excessively and garishly modified. (Stacks, excessive lift kits, tacked on turbo whistles, etc etc)

The truck overcompensation I would like is an Ls6 1970 El Camino...in honor of our once frequent member. Maybe a camper Special 396 powered half ton as a garage mate. Overcompensation is not always bad.

Not to be political, but given the mishandling of trade by both political parties and the apathy of the American people...the 21st century will be the Chinese Century. 19th century should ahve been the French century but it was the British century. 20th Century should ahve been the Germany century but it was the American century. 21st century should ahve been another American Century but it will belong to the Chinese. We might as well hand them dominance in electric cars...we have handed them everything else on a silver platter.

Soooo HOT!!!

I guess I'll start this month off. 1977 Caprice Classic sedan in light green, perfect condition, driven in traffic yesterday. I remember how excited I was in the autumn of 1976, (I was 12 years old and a complete car FREAK) to see the brand new, smaller and very good looking GM B, C and D-bodies hit the streets. First one I saw on the road back then... was a yellow Electra 225 with tan vinyl top. I think I freaked my grandparents out with my hoops and hollers that day.

Might be painful, metal conducts electricity.

Making luxury goods employs a lot of people. I have zero problem with it at all.

I am a Hellcat fan if that counts.

Ouch crazy prices are bad for all, but then it is a capitalist society with what ever the market will bare.

Years of building product that is not as desirable as the competition put them there. I still say that Ford will be fine. Dropping passenger cars and building vehicles they are passionate about (transit, F series, large SUV, luxury SUV, Mustang) is a huge win for them. I am more concerned about GM actually.

Disagree, their Debt load is so big, I suspect that the next recession will cause them to finally have to go bankrupt to unload their excessive legacy debt and pension obligations.

Odd I was camped at the Chevy dealer yesterday studying the '19 Silverado for natural paint break lines for two-tone schemes.

Probably. Depends on the contract once the lease has run its course.

A lot of luxury car leases are subsidized by the car maker I think.

Buyers do not (have to) care about resale. Lessees must care about resale since that is the difference between walking away paying nothing or paying a lot of cash to get out of their lease.

'30 LaSalle at Milford Proving Grounds :

Other that reading the badging, only a MB tech can tell. CLA/S-Coupe :

No prob- just expressing my POV. SOMETIMES odd & funky is cool- that's true. But in my book, 'odd & funky' struggles to be 'cool' and almost never achieves being 'a thing of beauty'. Unless smk was calling the A7 'odd & funky', then I'll go away. ;)

Drive what you love...I have cars on both highest and lowest list I would be proud to own. Most of the people buying them are not that worried about resale.

S class loses an entire E class in value in 3 years or less.

You sound just as irrational as I do or Ocnblu does when you rant...I love being on a board with people who are passionate and not afraid of being partisan. I actually really like the Benz interior. And in this we agree completely.

I've been a good member here, well-behaved, haven't caused trouble/gotten any warnings. Why must you taunt??

You're missing your calling doing reviews.

“Peak truck market” is probably right. The next recession is going to hit this country hard because one of the things a falling dollar will do is drive oil prices up. A lot of people fresh into their 4 or 5 year lease will suddenly have a truck that they can't afford to fuel and can’t get out of the lease because no one else wants it. Trucks may be more efficient than ever, but they’re still not going to beat a 45mpg Camry Hybrid on an endurance race between fuel pumps. The current model of purchasing vehicles (84 month financing, relatively fuel inefficient vehicles, buying way more than can be afforded) is simply not sustainable. Eventually the credit will run out, the recession will hit, and it will all come crashing down again. We didn’t learn our lesson from 10 years ago.

Not quite yet.... this might be a setup for it... but it’s not hitting yet. When housing sales plummet, that’s when to take cover. I’m starting to think the Ford is heading towards bankruptcy in the next recession though.

One's an (ugly) RWD-proportioned coupe, the other is a (passable but generic) FWD-proportioned sedan. Not seeing it. And NO ONE will buy one, so it could look like a Lamborghini or a lawn tractor- doesn't matter.

'truck = overcompensation' ranks right up there with 'camaro = mullet'.

Now if only Cadillac would release an XT5 or XT4 EV. . . . .

The ultimate 'GenericCar'. Can be used at will in any & all advertising with no worries of product endorsement. ;)

Had no time; as soon as I got set up to take the pic, the truck turned into a driveway. Square body Chevy, RC/LB, I believe it was a K30 1-ton, excellent matte green paint, silver bumpers with a quad of tie down rings per end, off-road tires, super clean & sweet all-business truck: This is the wife's '16 Malibu- so far so good. Still leery of a 240-some page owner's manual; the one for my '64 is only 36 pages:

On Thursday, I saw two identical black Cadillac CT6s. One was in a valet situation at the curb and the other one was driving by. Both had 3.6s and the one at the curb had AWD. I will say that the rear lights which slope slightly outward are one of its best features. It's a departure from the always too vertical Cadillac finned look. I like the CT6 from the side and the rear. The front is okay but that long extension of the front lamps into the fender is a little odd. Today, I saw a black Range Rover. Never mind the vehicle. The driver, an Italian looking heavy set thuggish type, had a small white poodle in his lap while driving and with its tiny head out the window. In addition to being an atypical sight, it's not a good situation for the dog. What grade did this guy get in driver's ed? I wish dog owners would let them look out other windows in the car and not sit in the drivers' laps. He was perpendicular to me at an intersection. Had I been walking in the intersection, I would have told him something. As for the OP, I think it was hit and miss as to which '76 to '77 GM full size conversions I liked. I know that I liked the smaller Pontiacs and Cadillacs better after that refresh. Probably the Buicks, too, with that Riv hatched from the LeSabre platform and for which its grille was referred to as the Parthenon. I will always love the '75 and '76 Bonnevilles and Grand Villes in big coupe form, though, with a landau roof and base Pontiac rally wheels. They were the only division that could pull off the big coupe. I would love to know what driving one of those would feel like. I once saw one in Yosemite in November back in the day and it was beautiful. So was Yosemite! I think that the '77 to '78 refresh of the GM intermediates was sort of lame. The GP and MC needed to shrink, with the GP looking okay and MC looking cheap afterwards. The Cutlass Supreme and Regal were so-so, with the fastback sedans being a total styling disaster. It wasn't until 1981 that all 4 of those were fine tuned and looked a lot better ... a lot better. Even the entry division MC looked great when outfitted in buckets/console or with the 60-40 LS seating, full instrumentation, and the unusual "racing flag" alloy wheels.

That looks like a '73 911 Carrera RS or an RS replica. That ducktail was exclusive to the RS IIRC. Those are worth serious coin. Looks a lot like this one http://fantasyjunction.com/cars/770-Porsche-911 Carrera RS-2.7 litre Flat 6-Cyl

Yesterday on the Freeway, old Porsche zooming buy! Liked these 1980's versions.

^ You certainly are... unique. ;) I vaguely remember the '77 intro's (I was around 10), but I was already grooving on the much more tasty mid '50s to mid '60s stuff. - - - - - 3 cars lengths ahead of me this morning, enjoying a nice top-down cruise and 'gettin on it' from every stop; a dark blue Shelby Cobra 427 replica. Sounded great even from that distance.

They have a market of ready buyers of people willing to step up to pay it. In a lot of the better urban neighborhoods people will pay a million dollars for a house just to tear down for the lot. What you want, and exactly what you want, can carry a huge price tag. On worth Avenue on Palm beach a sweater is 3 grand...again....if you have a luxury good that people want, people will pay.

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Stick a fork in them... they're DONE.