"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
07/19/2019 at 14:24 • Filed to: None
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
07/19/2019 at 14:24 • Filed to: None | 2
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Lets face it; your boy-racer, bar-stalking, one-night-standing days are over. Your wife, bless her heart, has given birth to five of your offspring.
Whatever the tax credits were: it wasn’t enough. One thing is to deal with two or three kids, but five? that’s just another ticket. You knew this day would come from early on. You knew one day you’d find yourself excited for this .
Because you wouldn’t go the way people normally go; you wouldn’t buy a stupid SUV or a puny minivan. You didn’t have 2.2 kids, after all. You didn’t buy an apartment downtown, no, you have a house in the suburbs.
So no, when the wife suggested a 100,000 euro GLS 350d, you said no. You went full dad, and got a V class...and it has a Burmister audio system.
!!! UNKNOWN HEADER TYPE (MULTI-LINE BREAK?) !!!
Worse than a Suburban. This rear-wheel-drive van struggles for traction as most of the weight rests in the front axle. Surprisingly, it has a sport mode, and the engine is very responsive up to around 50mph, then it dies. But fortunately you’ll find yourself mostly seeing 25MPG or higher. Not bad.
It doesn’t fall apart in corners as much as I thought it would, it doesn’t corner flat... but it damn near does.
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n the highway it’s a dream; seating so high up compared to other cars gives you the kind of authority that a dad with adolescent children can only dream of.
The suspension is pretty supple, though I worry about bottoming down in some situations with such long wheelbase; which also makes it very hard to navigate around tight streets or in parking garages. The brakes are pretty good considering the size of this thing. Though my only complain I guess is that the pedals seem offset to the right.
the lane keep is basically useless, I found.
!!! UNKNOWN HEADER TYPE (MULTI-LINE BREAK?) !!!
You could place seven adult people in this car comfortably, with enough headroom in every row for me, an 6'2" guy. The headliner is finished in suede, the leather is pretty good, and even if it doesn’t have the best material quality up front, you never feel uncomfortable; the seats have every possible option on them, and the aforementioned Burmister stere0 is so good, it might drown your stupid children’s fights. They even have their own air conditioning and seat ventilation...
facw
> Spanfeller is a twat
07/19/2019 at 14:38 |
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We actually get this in the US (called the Metris here).
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Spanfeller is a twat
> facw
07/19/2019 at 14:44 |
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Doug killed it a bit, but I think it was a different version
Tripper
> facw
07/19/2019 at 14:50 |
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TIL the Mercedes Metris is a thing, and a thing available in the USA.
SiennaMan
> Spanfeller is a twat
07/19/2019 at 14:50 |
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For what it’s worth, if you’re stateside, I’ve found the Honda Odyssey corners surprisingly flat for how tall it is.. admittedly, it’s not RWD, though..
(full disclosure, I daily a Sienna, something that rolls like an itchy dog even when new. My suspension components are not new. Some box trucks probably corner flatter than my Sienna)
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facw
> Tripper
07/19/2019 at 14:52 |
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They hide it well...
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Deltatango
> Spanfeller is a twat
07/22/2019 at 15:08 |
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Please don’t mix it up again: the Metris is NOT the V-Class. As far as I can remember, the V-Class isn’t sold in th e US. Unfortunately I cannot access the Mercedes US website as it wants to be smarter than me and constantly redirects me to the german site. Stupid shit.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Deltatango
07/22/2019 at 15:42 |
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I...I didn’t insinuate this was a metris