RE: S65 AMG joins S Class Coupe range

[Clevercurves]

Agreed, the best looking model. Tis is mine

[Clevercurves]

unpc said:

Saw this on the road a few weeks back. All kinds of wrong but it made me smile.

Lol

[tigerkoi]

iloveboost said:

JD said:

You know when you absolutely, positively, must get to the South of France as quickly as possible because there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix?

This is the car for that.

Ordell Robbie: CL-65. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to beat every motherf****r in the room to Chamonix, accept no substitutes.
Kudos to anybody who knows what movie this is from.
Also I agree with others about the CL design. I think it has aged well and it's still a handsome car. The rear lights date it the most but that's how they did them back then. I think it's a massive improvement on the 'big box' design of the previous CL and it looks much nicer than the S class it's based on.
Will cost a heck of a lot to run though so it's really a weekends and holidays type of car now.

"...accept no substitutes..."

Quote is from 1997's 'Jackie Brown'. People bang on about 'Pulp Fiction' and tosh like 'Django Unchained', but Tarantino's ode to L.A., ten, fifteen years from now will be considered his magnum opus. Betcha...

Talking of Ordell "I'm serious as a heart attack" Robbie, he glides around in a jet black R107. Shame about the US-specification bumpers, but it amply projects Ordell's brand.

If I can segue towards the CL conversation, if the day ever arrived when M-B considered a 'scrimp & save' option for the CL/S-Coupe klasse, i.e. a dirty diesel, then they'd probably lose more of their customer base than Tesco can manage in a poor quarter. It's not for those with holes in their shoes, watching their dollar. Nope, max luxe and big petrol V's only.

Anyway, when you're going all out to time-space compress and crush a few hundred miles on the way to Côte d'Azur, in one of these, then you don't care about mpg and all that jazz. You care about range...

Like David Harvey wrote in 'The Condition of Postmodernity', anything that alters the quality and relationship between time and space tends to be concomitant with making our lives that much better. In an CL65/S65 Coupe those who buy them, want to stamp the pedal, press on and not have to stop. Stopping and mixing with the hoi-polloi at the petrol station is a horrid faff!



I do think the W215 is the beauty of the line, but the C140, W216 and now the new S Coupe all have their merits. Maybe I find it difficult to warm to the current bluff front-end styling, much like Fxx BMWs, but they are designed to look imperial. When the Oakley wearing A5 driver sedulously deigns to tailgate you on the E11, just after Bourges, before you can say , "pah...minion", a fifth of an inch foot-flex will serenely carry you away.

Time. Sand. Boosted V12. Ellipsoid horizons.

[E65Ross]

tigerkoi said:

iloveboost said:

JD said:

You know when you absolutely, positively, must get to the South of France as quickly as possible because there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix?

This is the car for that.

Ordell Robbie: CL-65. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to beat every motherf****r in the room to Chamonix, accept no substitutes.
Kudos to anybody who knows what movie this is from.
Also I agree with others about the CL design. I think it has aged well and it's still a handsome car. The rear lights date it the most but that's how they did them back then. I think it's a massive improvement on the 'big box' design of the previous CL and it looks much nicer than the S class it's based on.
Will cost a heck of a lot to run though so it's really a weekends and holidays type of car now.

"...accept no substitutes..."

Quote is from 1997's 'Jackie Brown'. People bang on about 'Pulp Fiction' and tosh like 'Django Unchained', but Tarantino's ode to L.A., ten, fifteen years from now will be considered his magnum opus. Betcha...

Talking of Ordell "I'm serious as a heart attack" Robbie, he glides around in a jet black R107. Shame about the US-specification bumpers, but it amply projects Ordell's brand.

If I can segue towards the CL conversation, if the day ever arrived when M-B considered a 'scrimp & save' option for the CL/S-Coupe klasse, i.e. a dirty diesel, then they'd probably lose more of their customer base than Tesco can manage in a poor quarter. It's not for those with holes in their shoes, watching their dollar. Nope, max luxe and big petrol V's only.

Anyway, when you're going all out to time-space compress and crush a few hundred miles on the way to Côte d'Azur, in one of these, then you don't care about mpg and all that jazz. You care about range...

Like David Harvey wrote in 'The Condition of Postmodernity', anything that alters the quality and relationship between time and space tends to be concomitant with making our lives that much better. In an CL65/S65 Coupe those who buy them, want to stamp the pedal, press on and not have to stop. Stopping and mixing with the hoi-polloi at the petrol station is a horrid faff!



I do think the W215 is the beauty of the line, but the C140, W216 and now the new S Coupe all have their merits. Maybe I find it difficult to warm to the current bluff front-end styling, much like Fxx BMWs, but they are designed to look imperial. When the Oakley wearing A5 driver sedulously deigns to tailgate you on the E11, just after Bourges, before you can say , "pah...minion", a fifth of an inch foot-flex will serenely carry you away.

Time. Sand. Boosted V12. Ellipsoid horizons.

You are Derestrictor and I claim my £5.

PS - Django Unchained is a great film.

[tigerkoi]

E65Ross said:

tigerkoi said:

iloveboost said:

JD said:

You know when you absolutely, positively, must get to the South of France as quickly as possible because there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix?

This is the car for that.

Ordell Robbie: CL-65. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to beat every motherf****r in the room to Chamonix, accept no substitutes.
Kudos to anybody who knows what movie this is from.
Also I agree with others about the CL design. I think it has aged well and it's still a handsome car. The rear lights date it the most but that's how they did them back then. I think it's a massive improvement on the 'big box' design of the previous CL and it looks much nicer than the S class it's based on.
Will cost a heck of a lot to run though so it's really a weekends and holidays type of car now.

"...accept no substitutes..."

Quote is from 1997's 'Jackie Brown'. People bang on about 'Pulp Fiction' and tosh like 'Django Unchained', but Tarantino's ode to L.A., ten, fifteen years from now will be considered his magnum opus. Betcha...

Talking of Ordell "I'm serious as a heart attack" Robbie, he glides around in a jet black R107. Shame about the US-specification bumpers, but it amply projects Ordell's brand.

If I can segue towards the CL conversation, if the day ever arrived when M-B considered a 'scrimp & save' option for the CL/S-Coupe klasse, i.e. a dirty diesel, then they'd probably lose more of their customer base than Tesco can manage in a poor quarter. It's not for those with holes in their shoes, watching their dollar. Nope, max luxe and big petrol V's only.

Anyway, when you're going all out to time-space compress and crush a few hundred miles on the way to Côte d'Azur, in one of these, then you don't care about mpg and all that jazz. You care about range...

Like David Harvey wrote in 'The Condition of Postmodernity', anything that alters the quality and relationship between time and space tends to be concomitant with making our lives that much better. In an CL65/S65 Coupe those who buy them, want to stamp the pedal, press on and not have to stop. Stopping and mixing with the hoi-polloi at the petrol station is a horrid faff!



I do think the W215 is the beauty of the line, but the C140, W216 and now the new S Coupe all have their merits. Maybe I find it difficult to warm to the current bluff front-end styling, much like Fxx BMWs, but they are designed to look imperial. When the Oakley wearing A5 driver sedulously deigns to tailgate you on the E11, just after Bourges, before you can say , "pah...minion", a fifth of an inch foot-flex will serenely carry you away.

Time. Sand. Boosted V12. Ellipsoid horizons.

You are Derestrictor and I claim my £5.

PS - Django Unchained is a great film.

What was it that Calvin Coolidge was to have [apocryphally] once said when made a bet he could utter more than three words?

Derestrictor uses poecilonyms in a way, I guess, no-one has seen before!

Django is ok, I suppose, but the undulating nuances in JB just take it to another level. For me, anyway

Have to add: saw a W216 '63 earlier today. Automotive grandeur...

[E65Ross]

tigerkoi said:

What was it that Calvin Coolidge was to have [apocryphally] once said when made a bet he could utter more than three words?

Derestrictor uses poecilonyms in a way, I guess, no-one has seen before!

Django is ok, I suppose, but the undulating nuances in JB just take it to another level. For me, anyway

Have to add: saw a W216 '63 earlier today. Automotive grandeur...

I was lucky enough to go in one of these (with the later 5.5 bi-turbo unit) last month whilst my dad's F13 M6 went in for minor body repairs after some old duffer scraped it..... It was pretty mega but did feel dated in some ways to the M6, bit I think it had a bit more characterful an engine. The gearbox was rubbish in comparison but overall it was a lovely thing.

[vinnie83]

veevee said:

LayZ said:

155 limiter would irk on this. Very high speed in extreme comfort is the raison d'etre of this car surely?

Have you ever driven a car at 155mph? Not being able to drive any faster is not something that would 'irk' me, ever. Not having a limiter is only worth as much as pub bragging rights, and arguably, having a CL65 in the first place kind of exempts you from needing them anyway.

I'm told that traveling at 155mph in an AMG car is very easily done and rather relaxing compared to 100mph in lesser cars.

[Clevercurves]

vinnie83 said:

I'm told that traveling at 155mph in an AMG car is very easily done and rather relaxing compared to 100mph in lesser cars.

It is true. I owned a evo m3 and could just get onto the limiter on my fave bit of rd. it felt scary and every ripple in the rd suggested a massive crash. Fun tho. But I took my cl65 up there a few weeks back and it wasn't even stressing at all. Not even in 5th yet. Only slowed aa the cars in front got close vey quick