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Great for you guys! Also, Im liking the colour. It makes it look rich. (My wife's Fusion is better than your wife's Cruze)
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1930 Boatail 1932 1936 And JUST before the war started...all with V16 engines...1939 All Mercedes ever had was that 500K Special... Oh yeah....and this one That 1939 Cadillac was MODERN compared to that Hitler car when the war started!!!
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1957 Ford Fairlane! You wanna talk about engineering @smk4565 ? This is on a freakin' Ford bro!!!! You wanna cling to that ONE model in 1954? GTFO!!!
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PS: @smk4565 You really dont want me posting pics of what Mercedes Benz was REALLY producing for the masses IMMEDIATELY AFTER the war WELL INTO in the 1950s and what engine offerings were available... Even Chevrolet with their stove bolt Inline 6 offerings had better MODERN style, features, build quality, power AND desire! Ill leave you with a ROCK-N-ROLL song to REMIND you HOW THINGS WERE ABOUT TO GET State's side in 1949/1950 and beyond... (not the original but the video is what I wanna show) Listen to the lyrics...And its just an Oldsmobile...not even Cadillac! That one model in 1954-1957....THAT IS WHAT YOU WANNA CLING TO? REALLY? 1954-1957 Really? At the height of milk shakes, roller skates, hot rods and rock-n-roll America... GTFO!!!
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HA! One car in the 1950s... I mentioned that! I also gave you the "most luxurious most advanced sedan in the world in the 600" by saying 1967 or 1968...But still only one car! And as for your AMG... AMG was an INDEPENDENT hot rodding company..NOTHING TO DO with Mercedes-Benz... The W123 is from the 1970s...1976 to be exact.... This was its predecessor Introduced in 1968 You think that this car had a leg up on this one? (Its just the Caprice) Impala 327 SS interior Let alone other GM divisions that are higher on the scale from a lowly Chevy.... Built like a tank the W123 is.... But you really think that the 3rd world's taxi cab has a leg up on North America's taxi cab and police car for the same late 1970s-mid 1980s time frame? Because this Caprice/Impala/Bel Air was also built like a tank! Because this is the best the W123 could do interior wise Because as a Chevy....in 1984...this is quite comparable WITHOUT the leather seats of the W123... Mercedes Benz AFTER WW2 had to cater to the masses... 1947 And thanx to AMERICAN MONEY BUILDING UP THE COMPANY AGAIN!!! We all know what Cadillac done in 1949... Like I said...Mercedes Benz took off as a luxury car maker in the late 1970s and the people took to them in the 1980s when Cadillac really started to crumble... Hell....this is when the Japanese got cocky and introduced Infinity, Acura and Lexus JUST BECAUSE Cadillac was falling down and Mercedes Benz was nowhere near the top! Remember Amati? That was to be Mazda's luxury marque...that is how cocky the Japanese were JUST BECAUSE MERCEDES BENZ WAS NOT A PURE LUXURY BRAND IN THE 1980s!!! BAMBOOZLE somebody else....and if it aint that....SMARTEN UP!!!
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That should be written as W123 Mercedes....not the W211...
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Ill agree..... BUT!!! From 1939-1945...this is where things get murky for Mercedes-Benz.. After 1945, the only VICTOR that came out on top....from Duesenberg (which folded before the war even started), to Auburn (which also folded before the war even started) to Rolls Royce and Mercedes-Benz..... CADILLAC was the ONLY game in town! Lincoln was a FIERCE competitor too! In the 1940s and into the 1950s, 'twas Cadillac on top of the world. Mercedes built something of value and desire with the Gullwing, but that was about it! It took M-B in the late 1960s to gain what Hitler and Nazi Germany destroyed what M-B had before 1939... In the 1970s...Cadillac was still on top of Mercedes-Benz. Although Cadillac's shine was losing its luster quite quickly! So..it is false for you to advertise Mercedes-Benz as a leader and luxury car maker from 1945-1967 or 1968.... And....lest not you forget that the W211 Mercedes, although built like a tank....was NOT a luxury car. It was a CHEVROLET at heart which helped propel Mercedes back into the luxury game because it was built like a tank! Where as Cadillac cars and GM in the late 1970s were not! This is where Mercedes got its claws on Cadillac and never let go! Coincidentally, all other M-B cars other than the W211 were also just as crappy as Cadillac cars were! This is where Lexus comes in! But, in hindsight, had the D3 NOT been so stupid in the 1970s, I dont think M-B would have this resurrection that they had....but that is more on the D3 than M-B!
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Wow...this WOULD be a tough decision to make! Both are GREAT little vehicles that do an awesome job in what they are meant to do! You guys really cant go wrong with either choice. We took a test drive of the Encore when my wife was looking to replace her Mazda3. She had the same feelings towards it as your wife did. We (she, as it was her decision in the end) decided to go with the Fusion as it was a slightly bigger vehicle. She did not want another smallish car.
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I think this is just hijacking tactics by the German unions to keep jobs safe in Germany. PHOQUE GERMANY! The Euro-zone is crumbling because there only a few countries that benefit from factories... Greece is blamed for its problems because 1. Greeks are lazy 2 Greece and its socialist government 3. Greece is corrupt Yet NOBODY mentions outside of selling olives and feta cheese and a couple of tourists coming to see the Parthenon and swim at her beaches, there are NO jobs!!! Germany keeps ALL her manufacturing to HERSELF(or is it himself as Hitler called Germany the Fatherland) Anyway! PHOQUE Germany! I hope PSA buys Opel and moves ALL of Opel's factories in France!!!!- 7 replies
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Yes....that is my beef too with the SRT8. It is an older car with some mileage. But it is pampered. I know those miles were not hard driven. The only problem he has had with it was a brake issue 3-4 years into the ownership of his car. With that being said, surprisingly, Id take the Audi S4. Its the gasoline that would kill me as a daily. Yes, the thread is about these cars being daily drivers as that is how these real owners of the cars use them. Had the thread been them being week-end cars, Id take the big, black Dodge!
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This one is actually hard for me to choose. 425 horsepower V8 as a daily driver in Quebec is a very costly affair... On the other hand, a small Audi is not my cup of tea for a daily driver... Ill choose right after I come home from my daughter's softball practice. Im assistant coach for my son's baseball and my daughter's softball teams this year!!!! YAY!!!
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So...my neighbour 3 houses down to the left of me honks his horn in front of my house yesterday. He sees that I dont react so he rings the doorbell. I answer in my PJs (track pants and T-Shirt) just to see him smile. I say to him: "Hi! So...wha sup) Giggling like a school girl he says hi and points outside. (although the pic below aint an S4, this is what I see...a black Audi! Similar mags and tinted!) All of a sudden, I started giggling like a school girl myself and gave him several high fives. He just bought it, used....a 2015 S4. It is slightly modified on the exterior from the previous owner. The front end and grille resembles the pic below (without the red side mirrors, his mirrors are all black) with the rest of the car looking like that too (without the red side mirrors, and the wheels are not as deep and the tires not as wide) Its a good representation of how he bought it. About 50 000 miles on the odometer. My other neighbour on the opposite side to the front of me 3 houses down is the original owner of a 2005 Dodge Charger SRT8. That car is also black! About 120 000 miles on his odometer, but such a clean ride. He takes care of it, washes it every 3rd day and drives it like a grandma. He is my age. 44 years old. He is also Greek! He just has tints on his car. This is a very good representation of his car So....what fire breathing daily driver would you rather have in this week's edition of A "Would You Rather" thread?
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I heard these guys are pretty good at what they do!
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Nice ride! Id love the exhaust too! Plus the revving and the acceleration!
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http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a9942689/general-motors-accused-of-rigging-diesel-pickup-truck-emissions/ from the link above: And although my rolling coal pic was just showing how no matter what the news is regarding ANY fossil fuel POLLUTING makes tree huggers clamour to EVs....as proven by some posters wanting to hang me by me just posting a bloody rolling coal pic and telling me my argument is incoherent yet he never realizing that HE HIMSELF MADE THAT CORRELATION and I NEVER said ANYTHING of that sort just stating that: Good news for electric power. Anything that deals with fossil fuels being dirty and the tree huggers just strengthen their love for electrics. Coal powered electric farms could be used as an argument...but pictures like these make tree huggers turn a blind eye to it.... Ironically, the name of this type of action does NOT help the coal powered electric farm argument... The pic of the rolling coal Chevy was throwing IRONY into the mix... The above link just stipulates that if this is true....700 000 GM diesel trucks SURPASSES VW TDi pollution.... 1:1 or cumulative....if true....does it really matter at this point?
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Mine too was about the opening.... The BMW 3 Series goes further on top. If the Tesla Model 3 did not have that glass, then the Model 3 would probably have a similar opening where the glass like the BMW 3 Series..... About the Fusion....that hatch is for China and Europe only...and since the Fusion's trunk is about the same type of wide opening as the Model 3 and I own a Fusion and I do not find any real problems with it then this complaint really is much ado about nothing. OK...I would have bought that hatch style Fusion if it were offered here in North America, but it aint bad at all this way!!! This is the actual video where the second pic comes from.... Its still the prototype of 1 year ago...the dude says the opening will be a little bit larger than that on the production car...but even it stayed that way....its comparable to MANY MANY MANY sedans in this vehicle size range! @3:23 is where the trunk thing starts at. In the first pic, you could tell its wider top to bottom wise...
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Bitchin' just to bitch part deux!!! If Im not mistaken, this is a Model 3 trunk Its not so bad....the Model3 is said to be BMW 3 Series sized... Advantage BIMMER! BMW engineers thought this out very well!!!! KUDOS!!! But lets take a look at a Ford Fusion...a slightly bigger car I believe Looks about the same as the Tesla Model 3....it really is not soooo bad!!!! But yes....a hatch would do wonders.... Here....a Fusion hatch or I should say the Mondeo hatch...
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Bitchin' just to bitch... Modern cars....not from the 1960s and 1970s when this was super common but during the beginnings of the SUV craze.... Mid-1990s FoMoCo Taurus and Sable station wagon early to mid 1990s General Motors Caprice Station wagon, Buick Roadmaster station wagon and Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser And even more modern cars during the HEIGHT but NOT EVEN peak of the SUV craze as SUV madness is growing... 2001 Volvo V70 2014 Mercedes E Class And Tesla.... Not too shabby for it being just a hatch style-'4 door coupe' low and sleek design! And NO! The heads are NOT sooooo close to the window or rear, its very comparable to any station wagon that is sold....OR 3rd ROW SUV seating!!! 3rd row SUV seating...2013 GM FULL PHOQUING SIZED SUV.... The only advantage is that the seats are forward facing... Not everyone WANTS a freakin' SUV!!! Not everyone NEEDS a freakin' SUV 24/7/365! Cars with hatchbacks or station wagons fill that need quite nicely and in MOST cases HAUL MORE stuff than their CUV/SUV equivalent...without the EΧCESSIVE BULKINESS AND WEIGHT of a SHYTY CUV/SUV all in the while HANDLING BETTER, BRAKING FASTER!!!
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Me too. If it would have been a 993, Id take the Porsche over the NSX myself.
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Nissan News: Rumorpile: Good-Bye Juke, Hello Kicks?
oldshurst442 replied to William Maley's topic in Nissan
Now that you said it, I think I like it because of what you said: It is distinctive and doesn't look like anything else on the road and I do find it visually appealing. I think those are good enough reasons to like it...but Id never be caught dead in one! Id take the Maxima in a heartbeat though! -
Id up vote this pic 1000 times if I could! For the fact that it was YOUR SQUADRON! Also....I LOVE how you gave a description of all your choices and how your chosen machines DOMINATED, DESTROYED and DECIMATED their respective enemies! (yes....even for the Tiger II tank which decimated our allied forces) and Id up vote you another 1000 times just for the descriptions! I coudnt bring myself to post a pic of a Luftwaffe FW 190 especially one with a Swastika on its tail wing but the Nazi war machine did have some awesome weaponry! As I grow older, I see myself more and more incapable of "flaunting" Nazi paraphernalia...
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Nissan News: Rumorpile: Good-Bye Juke, Hello Kicks?
oldshurst442 replied to William Maley's topic in Nissan
I like the Juke for whatever reason. Not that I would be caught dead or alive seen in one. But I find something interesting about it. I cant seem to put my finger on why I like it, but I do! Life is strange this way sometimes! -
Chalk up another NSX!
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HA! HA! HA! (laughing with sincerity and affection) I did not make that correlation! I am Canadian after all! But sure! Love and respect brother!
