In 1979, why would I buy a Mercedes, bmw, toyota etc over this?
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Oh I don't forget. Sometimes I do feel traitorous but unfortunately America just isn't as good at making cars as the good foreign makes, It's much better than it was, however. In 2004 there was nothing even in the same universe as the LS430 coming from Cadillac.
Trucks and large SUVs are a different story, USA does those the best.
Trucks and large SUVs are a different story, USA does those the best.
Totally agree on US trucks and large SUV's though.
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But...cost is always a factor...a Toronado was $23,000 but an Eldorado was more. When I had LSs I had them because an S Class was more money than I could pay or felt comfortable paying. Thats just the truth.
Same thing 15 years later. I said go look at an Escalade or Denali and of course, Yukon SLT is what he picked.
His was a Continental, it wasn't boaty like a Town Car.
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The town cars are crazy soft sprung, feels like they will roll worse that's a 1990s SUV somehow. Really nice in terms of ride I guess but struggle to eliminate body motions that transfer into the driver. Aka 50 feels much more busy than 80 in an LS/S/A8 type vehicle
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This is what he had, a 1990 Continental, these were based off the Taurus, FWD. Did have air suspension but nowhere near as boaty as a Town Car:
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He bought a red top line Miata once on a whim once, he liked cars enough but just was NOTHING like we all are.
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My point is he wasn’t somebody for whom a car was something he aspired to have. People didnt work to “one day own an Oldsmobile”, that doesn’t mean they weren’t nice, it was just never an aspirational brand.
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Probably an Escalade EXT. It was a Chevy Avalanche "Sport Utility Truck" given the full Escalade treatment. We had a stretch version as the limo at our wedding. ![Smilie](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Here's an '07 with 190k miles:
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Here's an '07 with 190k miles:
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What foreign car was better in 1979
https://youtu.be/x9d1VqHQHdQ?si=rpZNzj6hQ2jJ0b6a
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https://www.pedigreemotorcars.com/ve...es-benz-450sel
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Interesting....I did not know there was a stretched version, like the regular Escalade limos.
The EXT was an interesting design, but, like its sister Avalanche, had some problems with the solidness and twist-resistance of the body structure, because of that drop-down panel, behind the rear seat, which opened up the rear bed. That was probably one of the reasons they did not sell better than they did. GMC ran into (more or less) the same problems with the Envoy XUV and its overhead slide-panel, which took out most of the roof strength.
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Any vehicle can be stretched into a limo
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it was so stretched that he actually had to cut out part of it and slightly shorten the overall length before he could legally even drive it around london haha
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Hahaha, classic