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Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:05 PM
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Tests show your heart beats five beats per minute lower in a W221 S class
Interesting article on the W221:

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4486/

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Of course it does! It is relaxing and everything is simple to use. Unlike the crappy I-Drive system!
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Yeah, but it doubles at the service department's cashier window.
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I wonder if they were measuring the driver's heart rate when the instrument cluster said:


STOP! - Airmatic - car too low!
STOP! - ABC - car too low
Drive in 2nd gear to workshop (transmission fault)


Pretty sure the heart rates would have gone through the roof
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I notice that they didn't really mention which type of vehicles they compared it to. Were the other drivers in similar cars like the A8, E350, or a Lexus?
Were they compared to low end cars?
Or were they compared to sports cars like a Corvette or Lambo :P

Yes, I see that they also compared it to the W126, but that test was a while ago.
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Originally Posted by bha
I wonder if they were measuring the driver's heart rate when the instrument cluster said:


STOP! - Airmatic - car too low!
STOP! - ABC - car too low
Drive in 2nd gear to workshop (transmission fault)


Pretty sure the heart rates would have gone through the roof
Then I wonder how much it beats in a Lexus
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Yeah, but it doubles at the service department's cashier window.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!
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Then I wonder how much it beats in a Lexus
It doesn't. Lexus buyers are usually so old they've already flatlined.
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It doesn't. Lexus buyers are usually so old they've already flatlined.
Ha!!!
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In the 2010+ W221, it is 15 heartbeats lower!
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Originally Posted by Nuru
In the 2010+ W221, it is 15 heartbeats lower!
15 fewer problems =)
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15 fewer problems =)
So if your heart stops beating it would be 60 fewer problems?

*ba dum tsh
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Originally Posted by genealogyxie
So if your heart stops beating it would be 60 fewer problems?

*ba dum tsh
That is what happens when the dealership gives you the bill after fixing those 60 problems.
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That is what happens when the dealership gives you the bill after fixing those 60 problems.
Nah, you trade it in way before 15 problems. 60 less heartbeats = zombification.
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Nah, you trade it in way before 15 problems. 60 less heartbeats = zombification.
Then I know what the next Walking Dead season is going to be all about
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