More power, less weight...than what? A Phaeton? Wow, your car is really reaching for a high bechmark there. Having a better power to weight ratio than a luxo-barge, a true feat. The challenger is still a miserable bloated whale that a 5 year old with a #2 pencil and a ruler could design.

I’m sorry, a car that was JUNK to start with? The VW Phaeton, a car that shares its platform with the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, was JUNK?

I had to scroll too far for this. This is the right answer.

Good god, the man wants a living room on wheels with AWD so I say we give him exactly what he asked for, a big damn boat with AWD. Doesn’t want a sedan...psh...he’s had sedans all his life, he doesn’t know what he wants! S-CLASS IS ALWAYS THE CORRECT ANSWER!

There is only one answer to what this be-sweatered, Poirot looking, glasses bow stressing, most likely pharmacist drives:

As the owner of a decade old W220 S600 who is mistaken for being wealthy quite often because of it, I can very well tell you that you’re dead wrong.

Clarification request: I can control other peoples cars remotely or can I, through sheer force of willpower and mechanical empathy, force my own car to never break down again and have the control to make what is broken, function again?

No reverse lights on the sides of the licence plate recess.

It looks like a Lincoln Aviator to me.

You are correct. Fiber optic CAN bus indeed. I’ve never heard of a replacement system working more than temporarily before the car rejected it like a transplanted liver.

I’ve got no ignition or cooling issues, but there is oil coming out of somewhere very hot that isn’t the valve covers. Rear main seal maybe. (It’s not the turbos! Don’t even talk about the turbos!) Last I checked the CEL was just PO444, purge control valve solenoid. But a secondary air injection pump fault happens at…

Well, I can’t wait to see if you can actually do it for $5,000. That exterior upgrade alone will cost you a pretty penny in used parts, and those are just the face lifted lights.

But either of those would require his mechanic to learn dutch.

What I’m hearing is the need for a big car, domestic so it can be repaired by a local mechanic, with enough power to be fun, but comfortable enough to be usable regularly. So I’m going to go outside of the box and present something that isn’t actually a sports car as such, but the hot version of a big, sloppy, boat.

When one has no real recourse to argument, no counter-point, no actual fact to back up his statements or opinions when pressed they simply accuse the other party of being in an unstable frame of mind and lay on the sarcasm.

What if I say that I find your cliche social justice warrior rhetoric offensive, hmm? Does it accomplish anything? No, of course not. But it is offense none the less and in the interest of equality, my offence is just as valid and severe as your offense at their horrible racist humor and socially backwards demeanor.…

What, did rental car companies stop buying cars?

An aging V12 Teutonic barge with 120,000 miles, two leak prone turbo chargers, and a hydraulic suspension system with a penchant for blowing up catastrophically at the pump.

I’m sorry, a flagship that isn’t a 4 door sedan isn’t a flagship.

I’ve got that 4-person seating option in my W220 and I can tell you it doesn’t warrant any kind of increase in price. I like having it, but I have no friends. If I did, I’m sure only being able to seat 3 passengers would be an issue on more than one occasion.