What cars do you and your family have?

[Heep]

Keep going...try to keep it clean this time, eh?

[gang$tarr]

thanks i'm just glad everything's all cleared up.... I'm still gunna try to get those pictures so that nobody has any doubts

I'm happy to get back to my posting

[moe182]

1997 SL 500 (Dads)
2000 S500 (Dads)
2000 VW Jetta (sisters)
2001 Acura CL 3.2 (moms)
And hopefully soon a 2002 Celica GT-S (soon to be mine)

[gang$tarr]

you got an SL500 too... that's coo
have you driven it? I think it's a sweet ass ride, i drive my dad's ever chance i get

[moe182]

Yea I drive it when i can.....its a great car for what it is. Its not a sports car by any means, i mean its just too heavy to handle/accelerate like one....its 4200 lbs car....Its a GT Luxury cruiser with a enough "sport" in it to make old people (like our fathers, and ppl who dont know cars) think that it IS a sports car...Its great daily driver (which is what its meant to be) in the fact that when you want the car to be quite civil, it can...and when you want it to roar and spin the tires it will.....The new 2003 SL is supposed to be alot more nimble then this one...

[gang$tarr]

my dad only uses it as a fun car.... he only drives it in the summer

[moe182]

Samething with my dad.....we're (my family) convinced that its his mid-life crisis car. Which is fine, he deserves it. Hell he went from being on welfare, to a sucessful business man.

[gang$tarr]

that's quite a change!

i think my dad's been wealthy all his life so no success story there

[hermunn123]

hahahaha, thats pretty funny. i dont like sl500's too much. maybe if AMG ripped off 1000 lbs and made it handle and accelerate i'd like it.

[moe182]

They did.
The next generation SL's (2003) are going to be 300 Kg's lighter then this model, and the SL 55 AMG is suposedly going to be super charged to the sweet sound of 400-450 horses or so i hear. Hell they saved 33lbs on the hood alone. They're not bad cars. They're just not geared to performence, as much as lets say Porsche is (or at least this generations)....I mean you can get the SL 600 up to a good 550 hp if ya send it to RENNtech.....

[gang$tarr]

well it has 302hp, so it aint that bad.... I think it handles great, just not as quick as a lighter car

still does 0-60mph in like 6s, that aint too shabby.... it's a performance oriented luxury car

but i still don't think it's worth a $100,000

well then again it is totally loaded with crazy options, it has lots of cool things.....

[Heep]

How much did the model before that cost (the late 70's and 80's one)? Cause, compared to the newer ones, they are friggin everywhere. Not that it's a bad thing, but they must have costed an awful lot less for them to be that popular.

[gang$tarr]

they're really popular cause they're a status symbol, so all older people who have money want one to show people they have money

that's why i want my dad to buy somethin new, cause i don't like that image... makes us look snobby

[Porsche]

Lotus! Lotus! Lotus!

[Heep]

Yeah, but they sold a ton more older models than with the 90's one...why'd they all buy back then and not now?