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The new Maybachs are something to behold indeed. Luxury and decadence defined.
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I have a little Maybach story:
Merrill Lynch invited us to a party at the Scottsdale Airpark (they were pitching a private-jet phone-card type system, and were under the mistaken impression that we have money). There were a couple of Maybachs in the hanger, along with the time-share jet. The hood and the doors were open on one of the cars, and people were sitting in the card, and looking at the engine, etc. My GF was sitting in the car, and when she got out I said “It’s running”. She said “huh?” I said - “The car, it’s on. It’s running”. It was absolutely silent. No vibration. You could walk to the back, and not hear the exhaust. The only way I knew it was running, was I could see a belt moving in the engine.
Sometimes life needs an ugly hulk of a car that frightens people. On Bay Area freeways, that time is every day. For that, I’d resurrect our old 1973 AMC Ambassador station wagon. For reasons probably known only to my father and the dealership, it had the police package with a 460ci V8 - definitely the sort of car where the fuel gage was your tach. Mash the pedal and watch the needle sink towards E.
There’s no way I’d want to drive a nice car on these roads with so many maniacs out there!
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EDIT: The Tesla bears a striking resemblance, particularly in the rear, to the Lotus Elise/Exige.
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As Lotus was involved in the development of the Tesla Roadster, I think the resemblance is not a coincidence.
As for my choice, I like the Tesla, or perhaps a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe. The Maybach is nice, but I think it’s a car to be driven in (as in while sitting in the backseat while a uniformed chauffeur drives one around).
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Sometimes life needs an ugly hulk of a car that frightens people. On Bay Area freeways, that time is every day. For that, I’d resurrect our old 1973 AMC Ambassador station wagon. For reasons probably known only to my father and the dealership, it had the police package with a 460ci V8 - definitely the sort of car where the fuel gage was your tach. Mash the pedal and watch the needle sink towards E.
There’s no way I’d want to drive a nice car on these roads with so many maniacs out there!
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Haha. I had a '75 Matador with the brougham package, in '96! I used to joke that you didn’t park that thing, you docked it. 17.5 feet long it was!
I like a ton of these choices. I must become obscenely rich.
I personally would like a Chevy SSR, hopefully a 2006 manual two tone. Shortly following is a Plymouth Prowler, and the concept Plymouth Howler.
*Slightly * more practical: a Mitsubishi Eclipse, in the new orange color. I looked at one while car shopping, and I fell in lust. I do believe that the relationship with my 5-door Mazda3 will be a little safer.
Yes… I do like curvy cars.
Of course, I’d like to have fancier horses to go in that trailer than my aged and arthritic Arabian mare and the furball miniature. Oohh, and completely outfit the new horses in Pessoa tack. And…
Sheezo, that’s more than $100,000 worth of rig, there.
