Sopranos Escalade vs. Continental
07-09-20, 09:19 AM
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Sopranos Escalade vs. Continental
My estimation of the Lincoln Town Car as a wiseguy's car just effing plummeted. To be outrun by a glorified Suburban? It's an effing disgrace!
07-09-20, 10:15 AM
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Nice click-bait thread title. 
07-09-20, 10:15 AM
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the Town Car was never a sports car. It's a luxury car that was class leading in comfort. It felt like you were riding on a cloud. At it's peak it had like 240 HP.
Also, you're basing your opinion on a TV show depiction of an Escalade chasing a Town Car that is just cruising along in traffic.
Also, you're basing your opinion on a TV show depiction of an Escalade chasing a Town Car that is just cruising along in traffic.
07-09-20, 05:31 PM
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07-09-20, 06:25 PM
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Lexus Test Driver
What disgrace? Neither one of those vehicles was designed for a track or drag-strip.....to wish or pretend otherwise simply ignores reality. IMO, the only disgrace I can see in the video was in wrecking a perfectly good Town Car for nothing but movie entertainment. Sedans like that are getting harder and harder to find all the time now, due to the conversion of sedans to unibody and FWD.
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07-09-20, 07:28 PM
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Yes, I figured that. IMO still a waste of vehicles, though......in most cases, I'm not a fan of wrecking them just for entertainment or click-bait, although I'll admit that some of the old demolition-derbies where they were driving true clunkers, could be fun to watch.
07-09-20, 07:58 PM
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Knowing it was going to be crashed in the chase scene they probably put a coat of paint and the (ugly) continental kit on an old Town Car that was on its last legs.
07-09-20, 08:01 PM
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07-10-20, 06:58 AM
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What disgrace? Neither one of those vehicles was designed for a track or drag-strip.....to wish or pretend otherwise simply ignores reality. IMO, the only disgrace I can see in the video was in wrecking a perfectly good Town Car for nothing but movie entertainment. Sedans like that are getting harder and harder to find all the time now, due to the conversion of sedans to unibody and FWD.
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Should we start debating the merits of a bus traveling 50 mph over the surface streets of LA and jumping over a missing section of elevated highway now?
07-10-20, 07:50 AM
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Should we start debating the merits of a bus traveling 50 mph over the surface streets of LA and jumping over a missing section of elevated highway now?
Well, the OP was (apparently) debating the merits of showing a Suburban running down a Town Car. Same general principle.
07-10-20, 08:44 AM
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Good points lol. Can you imagine the number of cars (no doubt mostly fixed up junkers) that are wrecked in just one or two years worth of movies and TV shows.
07-10-20, 11:42 AM
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No, it is not good points...not IMO. Vehicles are needlessly wrecked all the time in movies, for nothing else but sheer entertainment, but that does not, IMO, make the practice credible. At least with demolition-derbies, which is another place here vehicles were wrecked, not just for crowd-entertainment, but as a motorsport, otherwise-worthless clunkers, not perfectly-good vehicles, are wrecked as a contest, to see who is the last one running.
Sorry, with all due respect, I just don't see it your way.
07-10-20, 12:39 PM
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