Merc knows a meal ticket when it sees one. They wouldn’t dare messing with it.
bobkustofawitshz
bobkustofawitshz
counter attack... so you can shot a rocket launcher out the back
The thick assembly and curved windscreen kills it.
The curved windshield always made it awkward-looking on the JK, but since it was an hour-long process no one ever bothered.
1st Gear, from the Bloomberg article:
I wish manufactures would just start charging more for the manuals and keep selling them. I would cheerfully pay $1500-2K more for a stick on a $50K car if it means I can get one. Maybe more on some cars - a manual Alfa Giulia or BMW 330i wagon would be worth a LOT to me. I’d even pay extra to skip AWD on the BMW, but…
1st gear: When do we chop off California and give it to the Europeans? Can we give it to France?
This is stuff that really grinds my gears. Cars today pollute far less, consume less fuel, and generate more power than cars did 10 years ago, and several times better when compared to cars from 20 years ago (VW excluded). Maybe, just maybe, if cars are polluting less and less, but you still see an increase in carbon…
The stretched pixels really make it difficult to tell the length of the car. Fox body mustang based on the rear.
As many have said before, yes we are to blame but so are they. When manufacturers only offer the manual on the base model or severely restrict options it’ll drive people to automatics because we want manuals but we also want more than entry trim levels.
Bob, you could have told somebody.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why automakers sometimes only offer the higher output motors with an automatic? I get that power = nice and automatic = nice for a lot of people so it makes sense to group it together from a packaging standpoint for that audience, but surely part of the reason an automaker drops a bigger…
Have to disagree with you. The sperm whale / waterfall grille look was ghastly on almost every single vehicle. The newest model MKX looked alright with it, but otherwise it was awful. Even though the new corporate face doesn’t marry perfectly with older styling elements in mid-cycle refreshes like this, I think it is…
Honestly, MUCH better than the previous moustache grille. Definitely gives it a more upscale presence. If buyers are looking for a luxury SUV in this class, to me, this one looks the best and says “American luxury” the most. Something Cadillac could have taken better advantage of with the XT5, though its sales are…
There should be a training course for people who post ads on what “manual transmission” means.
Talib is 2/2 on ripping Crabtree’s chain off...
Could not agree more. When RR/Bentley split, I first favored the Bentley’s design, as I thought the Phantom was too far from the “norm”, but now the RR line-up (with the exception of the Wraith) is so more appealing than the current offerings from Bentley.
Fixed.