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This isn't on me lol. We're all adults, we don't need to be condescended to.
Oh, come on now....we all know the jokes (BMW and porcupine - porcupine has the *****s on the outside). Humans behave humanly, humans (all mammals) have (for most) a will to live, and live well. Those who don't, those who do not achieve, those who are not among the best and brightest...well. they are the ones who at least for me - have attuitudes about what we drive, what shoes we wear and on and on (as an odd note, since the OJ verdict - yes, I am that old, I have always had more than one pair of Bruno Magli shoes......)
Oh I have no doubt I would love how it drives. I’ve driven them. I feel the same way about the i7, I like its looks but lots of people don’t. I’d like to in general not be driving around in something a large proportion of the public thinks is ugly, even if I like it lol. That’s what always brings me back to a W223.
Hopefully the next generations of these cars will be less polarizing.
Yep....I get it. I love the styling, not everyone does. I appreciate that, and can try to disagree respectfully. I also want to apologize for vilanizing you in the past, simply because we just disagree on this issue. We can just disagree. I was afraid this thread might deteriorate, as many do anytime there are disparate ideas. Don't want to be a part of that this time. Not sure how anyone could not love the styling of the W223, personally. I wish it had the powertrain I desire, really like the idea of an electric car. But, as I have repeatedly said, I love my EQS (styling and all!).
Yep....I get it. I love the styling, not everyone does. I appreciate that, and can try to disagree respectfully. I also want to apologize for vilanizing you in the past, simply because we just disagree on this issue. We can just disagree. I was afraid this thread might deteriorate, as many do anytime there are disparate ideas. Don't want to be a part of that this time. Not sure how anyone could not love the styling of the W223, personally. I wish it had the powertrain I desire, really like the idea of an electric car. But, as I have repeatedly said, I love my EQS (styling and all!).
When ever I want to "Save the Earth" I ride one of my (many) bicycles. The image attached is my "Hybrid". It costs more than most used cars...it produced in what is most certainly a terrible slave labor filled factory in China where global pollution is not even an after thought. The batteries are even more filthy than the carbon frame...strip mines in multiple third world nations with even worse labor laws than China. Then, when I did charge it up I know for a fact that the electricity comes from coal....coal that is shipped in via train from far away places as the Enviro-Nuts are so hell bent on getting rid of the very clean and safe nuke power plants...... :-)
On my beach vacation last month, I saw several beachgoers "biking" up and down the beach on what looked like fun E-bikes, and I've always wanted to try one myself. I've also been curious about renting a golf cart, but the regulations and exorbitant costs have kept me from it!
Oh, come on now....we all know the jokes (BMW and porcupine - porcupine has the *****s on the outside). Humans behave humanly, humans (all mammals) have (for most) a will to live, and live well. Those who don't, those who do not achieve, those who are not among the best and brightest...well. they are the ones who at least for me - have attuitudes about what we drive, what shoes we wear and on and on (as an odd note, since the OJ verdict - yes, I am that old, I have always had more than one pair of Bruno Magli shoes......)
I mean everybody needs them a good pair of murderin' shoes lol
You're right in your thoughts about people that have attitudes about what other people do and have and why they make the decisions they make etc. I am part of a Dad group on Facebook, and that group is insane for that type of thing. A guy just posted a picture of his 16 year old daughter in the new CR-V he bought her, and people tore him to shreds. 500 posts! I just cannot imagine being triggered by what someone else chooses to do with their money or decisions they make for their kids or their lives etc. Just leave everybody alone lol
That ebike is not my normal day to day bike, used more when we are at our NC house. My day to day is a ME-Bike...and, we do have a golf cart (gasoline) in the driveway. Our city downtown and many near neighborhoods are now golf cart friendly....no, I am not in The Villages.
I can remember when I was younger and grinding away and would see someone pass in a late model S Class and think "I wonder who that captain of industry is?". Now that I could comfortably go buy one and with the help of my son's perspective I look over and think "meh".
As a technician years ago astutely pointed out to me after a high level manager had paid us a visit, "He puts his pants on one leg at a time."
There was a guy visiting someone in our neighborhood the other day and I chatted him up because he pulled up in his 24 year old S Class (W220). Turns out he is worth 9 to 10 figures. He seemed quite pleased with how well it was running with well over 200K miles.
I definitely get having a car for that long. I recently gave away the C240 I had purchased brand new and 2003. It had 265,000 on it and looks great from about 30 ft. Up close and underneath it was rusting apart. Freaking Chicago roads
I doubt I've looked at this section more than once or twice since I totaled my '22 EQS450 about a year after I bought it. It was the first EQS sold by MBCincy, my dealer - Cardinal red, minimum options. I loved driving it, but don't miss anything about it except the 4-wheel steering that I loved.
With my second S class - 2018 S560 in the garage, why did I buy the EQS? I cannot actually tell you why. Something new, I could afford it, I truly liked the styling...
Why any luxury car? My first was my 1971 MB SEL300, ordered for pick up in Vienna, driven 5,000 miles to Athens, back up to Stuttgart, and then another 100,000 miles here in Kentucky until the air suspension wore out and I decided not to fix it or buy another MB. I had been through a life crisis and a work crisis, and I guess I decided I wanted to do something different. I'd had a variety of cars and continued to buy them - not going to bore you with details. But my '71 was definitely different, for me, and for our small community.
I fell back to MB's when my dealer had a great deal on several late model year 2012 S450s - 20% off sticker. A great car; haven't the slightest idea how it was optioned. I could afford it so I bought it. I never had the slightest thoughts about a car-owning philosophy, what other people thought about it or me. Our family's position in the community was well-established, and didn't concern me at all. When it got to be 6 years old, I sold it to my son, and ordered a new Emerald Green Metallic with MBC, and absolutely minimal optioned 2018 S560 that I still have and drive, with 32,000 miles. At 92, I drive it and don't expect to ever buy a new one. I have never been a performance buff or concerned about what folks think about me and what and how I live.
A great many folks have written thousands of words here in this topic about having luxury items and taste. To each his own. My $350 Rolex Datejust is over a half-century old, keeps good time, and suits me just fine. No need for another one. I buy tailor-made clothes because they fit better - and I have a choice of fabrics. Nothing more to say about luxury. We were raised to be generous to the community and to needy persons; it was the proper thing to do. Help others and help yourself is as far as I can philosophize.
IF you read this, thanks, and if it appealed to you, fine.
No, sir, I do not. Over the years we have consulted from upriver with a number of Cincy physicians, (not including former Reds and Bengals physician, my distant cousin, Dr. Bill Ballou) but neither of those names rings a bell.
One, Dr. Roof is all about the feet. The other used to be my directory of Orthopedic Trauma, Dr. Sorkin. Both went to Cincy, actually, I think that Sorkin might have gone to Cleveland Clinic in a research roll wtih Storz.....but, way OT.
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