surreal1272

And the bar gets kicked over once again. From your “platinum” excuse to this sports cars nonsense, the only one who seems that “concerned” about it is you. And funny how you bring up GMCs use of Denali when Mercedes is whoring the AMG name like they’re working a Vegas street corner. More of that fanboy hypocrisy showing.

@smk4565You also missed the point about my Phaeton reference. GM never did and still has not done that. Chevrolet hasn’t had one sedan with more engine and more performance than Cadillac. Go ahead and say that they do with the Camaro and Corvette but that would only be applicable if Cadillac had a sports car. Hell, I think Benz is more guilty of mixing up their message. “Hey, if want luxury, buy this Mercedes” ”If you want luxury, but this Maybach” Which one is really luxury?

Thanks for proving my point. (Notices bar being kicked once again as different standards are applied to Daimler vs. GM).

“Luxury trim level”? What’s this? Their third attempt at trying to market Maybach here? They tried to play with Rolls Royce in the early 2000s and got their hand slapped for pushing out these glorified S Class cars and Daimler pulled the plug. They tried yet again to market them against the big boys and the plug was pulled yet again. Now Daimler thinks they can do the exact same thing but just call it a “luxury” trim level is the already supposedly luxury S Class? Do you see where this is going yet or does it need to be spelled out for you? You spend day after day going after GM and Cadillac while maybe uttering two words about the even bigger debacle known as Maybach. It’s kind of old at this point.

(Goes to the Maybach webpage, doesn’t see any Hyper cars or sport cars and sees a glorified S Class being marketed like a Rolls Royce. Thinking of starting a thread deriding Daimler’s dilution of the Maybach brand and how they don’t have a real plan after all these years).

@smk4565—While you harp about Chevy having sportcars with all the horsepower, weren’t you on this site just the other day propping up a $2 million Mercedes hypercar? I only bring it up because I don’t see that kind of car coming to the Maybach lineup.

Stop it. The Phaeton was still basically an A8 parallel and was literally marketed as a luxury limo so VW was just as guilty of middling into Audi territory as you as accusing GM of doing. That’s my point and none of your bar moving changes that. Oh and the W12 A8 came out at the same time as the W12 Phaeton. In other words, they were pretty much the exact same car.

He also forgets that VW has pulled that crap before. Did Audi have a V12 sedan in the US when VW sold the Phaeton? Nope. The top of the line A8 didn’t even have that option and VW explicitly targeted Benz and BMW in marketing and sales of it. The point is GM is not the only guilty of throwing around the old performance game. Trolling 101 when you clearly don’t understand the history of the Vette. See my post above.

Chevrolet has not one sedan with better engines and performance than Cadillac. The only two cars outside of that comparison are the Vette and Camaro.

Good grief. I’m a bit mystified by the lettering change but I’m not going to harp on it for three pages until more details come out regarding other trim options. Who knows? There might actually be a semi good reason for it.

That movie series definitely jumped the shark. Nothing worth watching again after T2, which was a great flick. I recommend self checkout for that one. The cashiers there will try to put that in a plastic bag and you’re just going to rip the handles grabbing it.

Gotta love “I love choice as long as you choose us” mantra of some folks. Its like it’s your choice to go or not to go to church so long as choose going to church. And I swore we were done with this idiotic tariff discussion yesterday. Guess some folks just can’t let go of things. Must be a pitiful life.

Except the Quad4 was a hot mess when it came to oil burn. They were absolute maintenance nightmares when they started acting up. Dated a girl in the 90s who a Calais with that engine. Would not wish that maintenance on my worst enemy. I do agree about the peak power where the torque is concerned but it’s still no slouch.

Give credit where credit is due. That’s a lot juice for such a small motor.

The pinball game rocked! Haven’t played it in ages though.

Lol. Not watching that dumpster fire either.

Hope you didn’t get your knees dirty.

Lol! Gotcha!

Nice cherry picking there. Want to try that with their CUVs now? Actually, I’ll take care of it. Here’s the explanation straight from Mercedes themselves. https://www.mbhuntington.com/mercedes-benz-model-names-explained/ just sayin’, glass houses man. Glass houses.

What do you mean? Cadillac and the lack of names or Mercedes never having names?

Big talk about naming schemes when your favorite brand has used a hodgepodge of different lettering schemes for decades now. Not disagreeing about Cadillac dumping names for letters but let’s keep things in perspective here.

...... Thanks for playing. And 1000HP in a car on American roads is just dumb.

And seriously? 1000HP is what you need? To each there own but that makes zero sense in this country unless you own a race track with two mile straightaways.

Not under any circumstance. I will never let skynet drive for me lol.

I know I pull no punches on the subject matter but I think once folks start talking about glorified concentration camps and a police state, that’s where it starts to cross the line. I was just thinking about that very thing. I would be up $h! creek if I still had my old Talon TSI (or any of the seven other manual cars I’ve owned over the years). Bought one of those steering knobs to make it easier but the green turtle (my old RAV4) is pretty easy to drive without it. Just playing the safe route for now because I still have two more weeks in this sling and several months of physical therapy.