How does anything that you said relate to differences between brands of sports cars? You are a very angry person. I don’t enjoy this thread any more.
Nope US luxury cars as a group have inferior reliability to their Japanese counterparts, lack the handling and superior industrial design of BMW/MB/Audi. To be fair even the German makes suffer in terms of reliability, although BMW and Merc’s design is a lot better, and all 3 German makers figured out American luxury preferences better than the Detroit makers have.
Chrysler is gross, it looks good initially, but won’t age well. I’m personally bullish on the Hyundai Equus although it’s a bit of a land yacht, and not suited for American tastes.
Maserati’s are beautiful. Amazing really. I wish I had 100k lying around. Also the new design language Merc is using is pretty nice.
Because the OP started asking about American vs Rest of World “luxury” cars then brought up the Viper and the Vette. I then went on to point out that while his overall point was correct regarding luxury cars, you shouldn’t confuse sports and luxury as they are two different schools of design with different purposes, it’s apples to oranges and I did a brand by brand comparison. You then went on to ramble some non-sense about owning six figure sports cars to impress girls and then somehow used that misusage of sports cars to equate them to luxury cars, stating they can’t be separated (which flies in the face of every auto publication ever). I corrected you on how some morons misusing sports cars is not an intelligent action and still does not change their intended purpose or mean they should be compared against luxury cars under the same criteria. You then took offense and misconstrued my statements, I then corrected your misunderstanding as best I could. You got offended at my viewpoint and called me angry, then you asked me to recap how we got here despite the text being directly above, and now we’re here.
What about people who drive thugged out 1995 Chevy Caprices?
+1, if we’re talking true luxury cars, the OP is correct.
Black Swan,
You must be the most immature 20 something year old I have ever encountered on the internets.
The thread about you getting a CB radio was comical. The thread about you “hucking ledges” and your Wiki knowledge about “Tucks” and “50+ degree faces” was even more comical.
This one takes the cake. Congrats.
Cool story
agree with Black Swan …suprised people would disagree but meh
I disagree - I considered a Porsche before, and I wouldn’t have been doing a buck 10 or pushing it to the limits Rick Ross style. Of course, I lost my license for 3 months for speeding in a 300c, so I’m kind of an enigma.
What’d you wind up going with?
A ride is high up in the HCB’s list.
A ride is high up in the HCB’s list.
911’s are pretty comfortable just to boot around town in, and offer ten times the prestige of a viper.
well thats g as fuck!
and blackswan, honestly when people are dropping serious loot on luxury or sports cars saying status and non-performance related concerns dont figure into the equation is ignoring reality.
If all sports car buyers cared about was performance they would be buying road legal shifter carts. Just because ‘luxury’ and ‘sports’ cars are made for different purposes doesn’t mean that the people actually buying them don’t see them as largely interchangible alternatives.
It is a vanity car in ways ,i agree. But you do get more space versus a sedan, and i like how i can enter the car without crouching down to get in
It’s not possible to rationalize the X6 using any practical measure. The X5 is more spacious, more practical, and is cheaper, as is a normal 5 series. The X6 is the car that you had model toys of when you were a kid. Only now, they made the real thing so grown ups can live out their fantasies. The fact that it is ridiculous is sort of the point.
^ +1. I like driving my X5 over any other bmw model.
not that this has anything to do with the conversation but i generally agree w/ the following premise:
“poor” people (i.e. middle earner pretenders) have nice cars. millionaires have nice houses and a Camry.
I think the X6 is ugly and weird looking. The tail bothers me.
Respect.