A mundane family SUV, but a top-tier one like a BMW ix3 or whatever. Basically so I could live in “luxury” for that year.
I chose the mundane route because of this thread’s stipulation that I’d be responsible for the gas an insurance. The insurance on, say, a Lamborghini Murcielago would kill me.
I am sorry that some people are misunderstanding this. The stipulation is that the gas and insurance is paid for, along with the use of the car, for one year.
Oh. Well I’d probably still stick with the SUV, because after a year of driving a top-tier sports car, I’d not be able to give it back.
Yeah, baby! Now yer talking!
Should be Pierce-Arrow! <— (Cussler uses, IMHO, an inordinate amount of exclamation points in his titles!)
I wouldn’t mind having my '98 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX back for one more year. Great car, fun to drive, got lots of comments and compliments on it. Requires premium gas? No problem, paid for! The only issue I had with that car was that the tires were nail magnets - seems like every few months I had another flat.
I’ve already got an impractical sports car. I’m going for the polar opposite – an old school American land yacht. Maybe this 1977 Lincoln Continental.
A good choice: I learned how to drive in a '77 Cadillac Sedan DeVille.
For the truly jumbo land-yacht, you’ll want something from around '71-'74, before the first oil crisis; Detroit started to downsize things – even the luxury sedans-- after that.
I’m skeptical that the Model S Plaid is the most expensive sedan. Surely ones from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Rolls-Royce or Bentley would be more?
This is one of your more easily understandable threads, I think posters just arent reading your OP.
For funsies there is the Plymouth Prowler.
That’s partly why I went with Lincoln – IIRC they were one of the last brands to jump on the downsizing trend. I bet they assumed well heeled luxury car buyers wouldn’t care as much about high gas prices and fuel economy. And maybe they hoped that if Cadillac downsized their cars and they didn’t, some people who still wanted a big car would switch over to Lincoln.
Upon doing some research, that '77 Continental from your post was from the “fifth generation” of the model, which was made from the 1970-1979 model years…so, it was still from the pre-downsized generation. The '77 was 233 inches long (19 feet, five inches), over a foot longer than the 1980 version (219 inches), and over two feet longer than the 1982 version (201 inches). So, maximum land yacht!
It’s incredible to me that people actually bought this monstrosity, drove it home, parked it in their driveway, and gazed at it admiringly.
Times have changed, of course, but ironically, in that very same year, GM’s Chevrolet division introduced the 1977 Caprice, whose elegance is a stark contrast to this ugliness. I was the proud owner of a brand new '77 Caprice, and though the design is now dated, its simple elegance still shines through …
A coworker drove one of these near the end of the 90’s. It was complete with 8-track player, Kiss 8-track, and a cheap Earl Scheib paint job. The backseat area was absolutely huge; I remember not being able to reach the front seats while sitting in the back. Going to lunch with him was first-class – like getting a limo ride.
I saw that somewhere but I don’t trust it either. The Cadillac Celestiq is made in the US and costs a lot more. Most expensive Tesla perhaps.