They do, but these swimmers made Brazil look bad and therefore now must be punished. Like how they sued the producers of the Simpsons.

“Worse and Petty” is printed on their currency I think.

Bingo.

Cool story bro.

I can see them taking the AMG GT platform, stretching it a few inches (nowhere near the concept) to make a bespoke ultra-luxury performance coupe out of it and calling it the Maybach Gran Tour or something like that.

That nose is a dead ringer though. And there’s a chrome package available for the AMG that would outline the side window and lower door sill trim as well, but I couldn’t find a picture of it. But I bet it would look even closer like that.

I feel like Mercedes just stretched out the AMG-GT to make the Maybach.

So, an AMG-GT basically?

Except the cost of living has skyrocketed. Oops.

These are never interesting when they come out. In thirty years they'll be interesting.

The point is that we’re fast approaching a point where we’re spending exponentially more money to chase increasingly small reductions in pollution. And those small reductions are totally insignificant when factored into the global equation.

Yeah but the ball joints haven’t gone bad. It’s usually bushings or something that start squeaking and you end up replacing the control arm because its easier. Bad ball joints have very different symptoms than a squeaky control arm.

It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg thing. Which changed first, customer attitude or Mercedes engineering?

Yeah, I daily drive a 22 year old Mercedes through NYC with 140k on it. No need to replace ball joints or bearings.

Touché

Hahaha oh man yes. I actually saw one of these for sale in Brooklyn a few months ago. I spent about an hour just staring at it. There’s just SO MUCH to take in. It’s wrong in every way but it’s still bizarrely attractive.

You couldn’t be more wrong if your ass was in the front.

You have that perfectly backwards. The Zonda is the beautiful one, and the Huayra is kinda awkward and weird.

In absolutely no way is the XKE ‘hideous’. Every inch is perfect.

This one wins. Perfectly sums up the ‘ugly/beautiful’ aesthetic.

Where do you think the millennials learned it from?