balthazar
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I would love to have or build a lil road-going spaceship like this (Panhard Dyna) :I don't see SUV buyers having any real reason to look to Jag for SUVs. It's like the question no one's asking, never mind being a decade plus late. Hell, no one's asking for Jaguar sedans….
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Might move 50 units/mnth, depends on the lease deals.- 7 replies
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• Chassis has nothing to do with top speed. • Multiple Escalades have already been built that go 0-60 solidly in 4 sec and have been tested over 130 MPH. A souped up version only needs to hit 150, IMO, not 190. • Doesn't have to outperform anything, but a V-Sport E would be pretty cool and highly sought after anyway. At least it looks a lot more expensive & modern than the Bentley does (in pics).Escalade @ .36 is pretty amazing. G-wagon is .54.Build quality was poor, but beside that- who wants to stick with a so-called luxury car that not only nickel&dimes you to death, but doesn't have any actual luxury??I work out of a '04 2500HD Silverado crew cab, so I will just list some mods I would like to make it better • An open-able rear window, bigger than the common 12-incher… something usefully sized, like 24". You couldn't (still can't?) get a slider on a crew cab. • Some sort of 'work bench' surface for the tailgate: T-slots in order to clamp things down, a large V groove for round items, etc. I work off my tailgate all the time. • Suicide crew cab doors. Wow would I love this for access purposes. • Bed side gate, like the Cheyanne concept had (that one had a very nice interior, too). • Lower bedside storage boxes.^ Well, except for the 15 or so year period where mercedes was cranking out some really poorly built junk. Only know one guy who has a 20+ yr old Benz- it's an 87 s-class. It's getting pretty rusty and the interior is junk (was when new tho). I find his '60 Eldorado Biarritz FAR more appealing.Interesting chart a few posts above. With all the hyperbole about 'OMG- turn everything into a CUV!!', it shows the body style breakdown is pretty much flat over the last 5 years; CUVs up 5%, big whoop. Here I was sitting, wondering if all the outcry over Cadillac only having 1 CUV and mercedes having 23 was really a Major Problem, and the way I'm reading it, it isn't. In hindsight, I would advocate the XT5 and an XT3 (as long as it's notably larger than the Buick Encore), plus the Escalade, and call it 'done'. Absolutely zero need for an 'XT1'.Welcome to 1954.^ But you just used it in a sentence. - - - - - 1956 Motor Trend test of a mercedes 300-SL gullwing: "...it's time of 4.2 secs to go from a (true) 30 MPH (indicated: 34) to a true 50 (indicated: 56) in 2nd gear is just slightly faster than a '56 Oldsmobile, It's best time from 0-60 (indicated: 67) of 8.5 secs was but 0.7 secs quicker than a Studebaker Golden Hawk with Ultramatic trans." Top speed officially timed @ Bonneville was 134.73. Same issue has a brief report on the first-year, 320-HP DeSoto Adventurer, which did 30-50 in 3.9 secs. The 'A's top speed was recored as 139 on sand and 144 on paved road.Ad in back of Road & Track, August '65 ~ Shows pic of VW van with smoke billowing out of the rear wheel well and the front tires 3-4 inches in the air. Superimposed over it is the word VOLKSVAIR. Text: "Ridiculous? Of course, but your Volkswagon, Ghia or Porsche can have 200% or more increase in dependable power by adapting a Corvair engine to it." You know you're not in Kansas anymore when a Corvair engine speeds up your Porsche.Bentley DESPERATELY needs a new design team. The outside is a combination of the anonymous/pedestrian, yet the front end stretching & pulling of the sedan's nose over the structure of an SUV just doesn't work. Bottom line : It doesn't look expensive. Inside suffers from the same issues- slightly dated, slightly pedestrian = nothing special. I really believe Bentley 'didn't need to go there' on this one.At least one guy here is REALLY going to like your garage. Welcome.'58 Ford F-100 fenderside, flat black, a bit crusty/bumpy, rollin'. Circa 1940 Rolls Royce on a trailer, burgandy w/ black fenders. Surprisingly plain & devoid of detailing.Well, YOU mean Dodge Charger Daytona, the model. I meant the '63 Pontiac LeMans Super Duty car that raced at Daytona (among other race courses). This car, #50, was a real monster : Lapping Ferrari's…Yes; s-class convert in the '60s, almost FIFTY years ago. Just like I said. Pullman / 600 cars weren't "s-classes'. '70s S-class, unfortunately for your point, wasn't a luxury car, it was just priced like one. It wasn't until the '90s that it began to measure up to the 'luxury bar'. Reportedly, Mercedes bought a factory Pontiac Daytona car in the early '60s -one that intact today would be worth nearly a million- to tear down the engine for the 6.9L development. Tho Pontiac's 6.9L had an IBC & right about 475 HP (it was rated at 390-410), MB's version 10 years later had OHCs and a staggering 285 HP. With 4200 lbs, a 3-spd auto & 2.65 gears, it certainly wasn't much in the way of 'muscular'. A 15-yr older Chrysler was just as quick- how come that's not also a 'muscle car'? I guess it was, and was just overlooked here.Just saying, the upcoming convert was just announced days ago, the coupe is only months old ('CL" isn't an 'S'). For 2 generations of U.S. buyers, the s-class is a 1 body style only model.Mercedes couldn't even offer interchangeable parts unless it was for Cadillac. General Motors offered ABS & air bags in 1970/1972, when did daimler? What a hoot! Daimler has only offered the s-class in ONE body style for 44 years; what "variety"?? Where's the convert, where's the wagon, and the coupe JUST came out (too little, too late)! Try NO variety of body styles!
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