Re: As an American Engineer ...
1)yes thats right. now guess why MB and chrysler break up the merge. Mercedes-Benz is still the best in the world.
and AMG builds the best and the most reliable engines in the world. the perfect couple! Nobody can beat the AMG V12 biturbo. maybe Brabus but thats another story.
2)no thats not true. the S-Class and C-Class is hot as hell. Big, strong and beautiful.
3)The Cayman isnt ugly. The Boxster is ugly. Its a girls-car.
The best "street" Porsche is the 964 and 993 Turbo 3.6.
the 997 gt2 is something special!
4)Yes youre right Audi is great. Better than BMW but still not as good as MB and AMG together.
the W12 is just not as good as the AMG engine. Just look at the enormous 1.000 Nm.
5)The Z06 is a great car. no question....BUT. Like I said...
It has muscles and nothing more. I like, I love cars with muscles and cojones.
But I want the muscles plus the luxury and the reliability.
And American cars are not as luxurious and especially not as reliable as the German cars. thats fact.
But its also fact that a few years ago everything was better than its now.
Thanks to the EU and the fu*** asian car manufacturers....
6)btw american cars of the past arent as durable as it seems....its a lot of work to keep them alive.
but theyre way more durable that todays cars from America, thats right.
7)and the "land yachts" you mentioned....
they werent that luxurious! they where big and not much more.
the breaks suck, the steering sucks....
I guess the Americans can only build
a big car
or
a luxurious car
or
a fast car...
but not one car with all things together.
1) Check the of audi, lexus and cadillac beore claiming MB is the best of the world, the cadillac is a real bargain as compared to the mercedes and the audi
http://www.jdpower.com/autos/cadillac/dts/2008
http://www.jdpower.com/autos/audi/a8/2008
http://www.jdpower.com/autos/lexus/ls/2008
http://www.jdpower.com/autos/mercedes/s-class/2008
The cadillac offers a very good level of luxury with luxury 3 trim level on the DTS it costs the half of the price of the audi a8l 4.2 and of the mercedes class s 550
2) mercedes designs went ugly after 2000 and for me, their pre 2000's were
the best even better than today ones.
3) many prefer a 911 to a cayman and that is not without reason
4) We compare stock to stock, AMG is a tuner so it can't be taken in consideration. Please compare a bone stock mercedes against a bone stock audi, the audi being equal to the mercedes. The W12 is a compact engine with lots of torque.
5) The ZO6 offers no less luxury than the Porsche 911, leather seats, a/c, cruise control, heads up display. The Z06 is a very reliable car, you have obviously never heard of how reliable is the small block 350ci (5.7 litre) on which based the 7 litre engine of the vette. The 7 litre engine of the vette was widely tested at Le Mans during the end of the 90's and the early 00's, it is not without reasons the vette won many times the Mans in its class. American cars being not as luxurious as German cars is not true and it is not a fact and about reliability I wouldn't speak about their reliability when you
or a member of your family have never owned one. My uncle who lives in Lausanne drives daily a 1969 Charger r/t, he never had probs and the car is very powerful and reliable.Another example, another of my uncle who lives in Texas owns a 1970 Cadillac Eldorado which has 110000 miles which is fully optionned: power seats, power windows, rear window defroster, electric remote mirror, courtesy lights, seat belt warning, fast power steering and many other options. The car has never let him down, it has a big and very reliable engine a 500ci engine (8.2 litre) which is powerful and with lots of torque. Handling is excellent.
During the 30's 40's, American prestige manufacturers like Marmon, Cadillac, Duesenberg, Stutz, Cord and Auburn produced some of the most lxurious and prestigious automobiles that surpassed Mercedes and Horch in terms of quality and performance. The 50's have seen the apparition of the most luxurious automobiles like the Imperial Crown Southampton Le Baron, Lincoln Continental MarkII and Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, those cars beat the first generation of class S presented by Mercedes in 1954 in term of luxury equipement, styling and driving performance.
6) americans cars of the past are very durable, a good old big block v8 will outlast any modern engine built today, I know many people in the
USA and in Switzerland who use + 30 years old American cars as their daily drivers and they have no problems.
7) The land yachts not luxury????:1orglaugh You have no real knowledge of what is a land yacht when it comes to American cars. A land yacht to be precise is either a Cadillac Fleetwood, a Lincoln Towncar or an Imperial Crown Le Baron that is fully optionned and that can easily take the compary with many modern luxury cars. The brakes on the cars were extremely powerful and the handling was very good despite that at the time these cars used the goodyear polyglass bias tire technology.Now, you can put a modern set of radial tires and you will see the difference.