Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by Spork99:
Originally posted by Cory:
As for the Fusion vs a C class - have you ever driven a good Mercedes or a Maserati or Ferrari? |
I've driven several of the high end Mercedes extensively for work (we did work on superchargers for Mercedes). They're an excellent drive, but not worth the expense and they are pretentious.
As a semi-related aside, when I worked in the auto industry, my car broke down at work one day and I couldn't get the part until the next day. Since I didn't want to sleep at work, and no one was willing to drive me an hour to my house and then back, my boss just said, "Take one of the Merc's." So I of course took the biggest, blackest, most expensive one, a 2 door coupe. I just pulled in the garage and parked. My then wife later went out into the garage and came back in very excited, "Where did you get that car?" I just said the, "The old one broke down, so I upgraded to a Mercedes...I work hard, I deserve it." She nearly lost her mind thinking that I'd gone off and bought some $80k car. I just suggested we take it for a little spin after dinner. I thought the whole episode was hilarious but I'm not sure if she was any less pissed off when she found out the truth. |
Funny thing... I rented mine the new California, and all of a sudden she thought that maybe a $250,000 car sounded like an OK idea. ;)
I agree though (and so does she really), they're a fantastic piece of machinery, but simply not worth that much to me - still, there's a parallel to Gyaban here as well, since most of us admire him and his work, but wouldn't invest that kind of effort or time into an image ourselves. |
Thinking back, I should have kept the car and returned the wife... |
