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2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring, 2022 F-150, 1926 Rolls-Royce SSG roadster
Moving On . . .
After 3 years I'm getting rid of my 2018 brilliant blue AMG GT coupe.
A complete change.
Tomorrow I pick up my 2020 red AMG GT roadster.
My local dealer made me an offer I couldn't refuse. And I wanted a roadster back in 2017 but MBZ wasn't importing them yet.
As for the entry level model, I'm 75, so 469 HP is sufficient.
This will by my 20th Mercedes Benz. I bought my first one, a 280 SL Pagoda roof, around Easter 1971 at W.I. Simonson in Santa Monica and drove it back to Massachusetts where I was a 3L in law school.
2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring, 2022 F-150, 1926 Rolls-Royce SSG roadster
It's "Jupiter red." I've got to figure out how to change my avatar.
The car is lovely. I've had it for 2 days. It's what I thought it would be, and pretty much drives, sounds and feels like the coupe. But without a top., (It's my 5th Mercedes convertible.)
But . . .
The infotainment and navigation systems are overly complex. They are not intuitive and appear to be for the convenience of the builders, not the driver. Ergonomically they are failures. Despite my decrepitude at 75, I am an early adopter of technology. I worked my way quickly through all the touch screens and menus of my new Audi e-tron, and while that was a pain in the a$$, on this car I am unable to make radio stations favorites or access them, orally command the vehicle to drive to my home (which I finally got it to remember), or save destinations in navigation. I've read the owner's manual and it is pathetic.
Among JD Power's "ratings" is one for new car problems within the first month or two (or something like that). Mercedes always scores poorly because its technologies are too complex and poorly explained. While I will not report my problems as faults, they are definitely problems that will scare people away. My 2018 coupe was easy to understand; very intuitive and with real buttons that you could press or turn or toggle. Not this car. It has "sensors" and touch screens.
As for the vehicle itself, apart from the impossible technology, the only problem with it as a vehicle is that it's hard to see out the rear because of the hump that is the top of the roof that sits maybe 8-10 inches above the rear deck.
But I've only put 60 miles on the thing. So we shall see.
2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring, 2022 F-150, 1926 Rolls-Royce SSG roadster
I tried to change my avatar but it doesn't seem to want to show up. Maybe a mod could help out. I figured it out. This weekend I'll try to take some around my house. Over my bridge usually gives some picturesque photos.
Last edited by MalibuScott; Sep 4, 2020 at 10:44 PM.
Reason: I figured out how to modify my abvatar
2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring, 2022 F-150, 1926 Rolls-Royce SSG roadster
No way! I already scrape driveways everywhere. Remember, I live in the Santa Monica Mountains. If I head to West L.A., or the Valley or Thousand Oaks, I am faced with terrible roads and steep driveways. Just getting to my local post office requires an entry angle so severe that other drivers give me strange looks.
I can't tell you how many times I scraped the GT coupe. The roadster has the same wheels and tires.
2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring, 2022 F-150, 1926 Rolls-Royce SSG roadster
My 2001 CL55 AMG had a suspension whose height could be controlled while driving. When I'd get on a freeway I'd lower it half an inch. When I tried to navigate the terrible roads in West L.A., Malibu and parts of the Valley, especially driveways, I'd raise it an inch. That system worked out well and I had that car for 10 years. When I sold it the suspension was slumping over night and had to be raised before I could leave my garage. Mercedes Benz told me that there was nothing they could do to fix it.
He may be right. Sometimes they forget to remove the suspension shipping blocks during new car get ready. A quick look see on the lift will tell the story.
You are going to really enjoy that car especially in California where all of the other beautiful people live.
Maybe you can get a TV series like that other TV lawyer on 77 Sunset Strip.
I bet you will be very happy with your Saturn Red roadster. I have the same color roadster after owning 7 black cars. For some reason the car wears red extremely well. With all the warm sunny days in California, you have to have a roadster!
2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring, 2022 F-150, 1926 Rolls-Royce SSG roadster
I brought the car in yesterday to have something cleared and asked the service people to check for shipping "blocks" holding up the suspension. I was told there were none and that the car was not riding too high. So there is that. I haven't scraped yet.
I do owe the board some photos and I'll try to do that this weekend.
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