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Old 10-20-2002, 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by evilT2' date='Oct 4 2002, 10:35 AM
rice? you must be insane. have you ever driven any of the SL series? those things are nice as hell, they handle great, have an uber smooth ride and have gobs of power and torque. its fine german engineering, its anything but rice.
For sure those SL 's are tight, those are my favorite Mercs. I got a poster of one on my wall. I think Jeff Gordon has one too..seen it on cribs.
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Old 10-21-2002, 05:19 AM
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Talking about cars like that, I just knew someone was going to throw some MTV Cribs reference in there!!



Good call though...you know how those guys on cribs roll
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I work for Mercedes and drive these goddamn over-engineered pieces of **** daily. The SL55 is ******* insane. It will break the wheels loose at any speed below 100 mph. I KNOW.



The new SL series(230) has electronic brakes...thats right, no master cylinder and no booster. You get the brake "feel" from a spring and rubber bump stop on the back of the brake pedal. Crazy ****.



And those wheels aren't on the production cars. Maybe an option but I haven't seen them.
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Old 11-06-2002, 08:33 PM
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The car is sweet and thats that. If you start to critisize it its probably just jelousy and envy talking.

Its ok I understand I would probably do the same thing if i was driving something like a

88 seven........oh wait never mind that last part.
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Originally Posted by rxpower' date='Nov 6 2002, 09:33 PM
If you start to critisize it its probably just jelousy and envy talking.
No. Honestly they are overengineered. If you buy one(any new mercedes product) I can guarantee that within 1 year of ownershipor 15000 miles your car will be at the dealership at least 5 times, probably closer to 10.



No joke.
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Yup. Lots of high-tech gadgets to break. Just pray that the warranty covers your *** until you unload the thing. I'm sure its an awesome car--when it's not in the shop.
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' date='Nov 7 2002, 06:20 AM
Yup. Lots of high-tech gadgets to break. Just pray that the warranty covers your *** until you unload the thing. I'm sure its an awesome car--when it's not in the shop.
I think that you and 93 r1 are right but I also think that if you have that kind of money to buy a car

like the sl we are talking about you probably don't have the car for that long anyways

or you have the money to fix it.
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Originally Posted by rxpower' date='Nov 7 2002, 02:23 PM
I think that you and 93 r1 are right but I also think that if you have that kind of money to buy a car

like the sl we are talking about you probably don't have the car for that long anyways

or you have the money to fix it.
Agreed. If you can afford to wipe your *** with 100-dollar bills, you can probably afford to drive an SL55.
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' date='Nov 7 2002, 06:27 AM
[quote name='rxpower' date='Nov 7 2002, 02:23 PM']I think that you and 93 r1 are right but I also think that if you have that kind of money to buy a car

like the sl we are talking about you probably don't have the car for that long anyways

or you have the money to fix it.
Agreed. If you can afford to wipe your *** with 100-dollar bills, you can probably afford to drive an SL55.[/quote]

I actually saw someone do something similar to that once. The guy was eating dinner and used a new crisp hundred for a napkin.

What an *** hole i felt like kicking his ***. But he had two big body guard with him.

never did find out who the ****** was.
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Originally Posted by rxpower' date='Nov 7 2002, 02:31 PM
[quote name='1988RedT2' date='Nov 7 2002, 06:27 AM'][quote name='rxpower' date='Nov 7 2002, 02:23 PM']I think that you and 93 r1 are right but I also think that if you have that kind of money to buy a car

like the sl we are talking about you probably don't have the car for that long anyways

or you have the money to fix it.
Agreed. If you can afford to wipe your *** with 100-dollar bills, you can probably afford to drive an SL55.[/quote]

I actually saw someone do something similar to that once. The guy was eating dinner and used a new crisp hundred for a napkin.

What an *** hole i felt like kicking his ***. But he had two big body guard with him.

never did find out who the ****** was. [/quote]

I've heard of people using $100's to light cigars, but I've never seen it.
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