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cdnpinhead

abacomike said:

Got a call from my twin brother last night informing me that he traded in his 2020 Mercedes GLC SUV for a 2022 Designo Diamond White Metallic Mercedes GLE 450 4MATIC SUV. MSRP was just over $80,000.

How many miles were on it?

snakeweasel

@imidazol97 said:
Simply Red, you say!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcB3q5lb4tQ

I should have said Redd.

snakeweasel

@imidazol97 said:
Simply Red, you say!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcB3q5lb4tQ

OK since you brought it up.

https://youtu.be/CF18ojCoo5k

abacomike

@cdnpinhead said:
How many miles were on it?

18,500

Michaell

imidazol97 said:

snakeweasel said:

Now that's red, simply red.

Simply Red, you say!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcB3q5lb4tQ

I have that album on my iPhone. Mick Hucknall has as incredible voice.

imidazol97

Agree. When he starts "Holding Back the Years," I feel the same reaction as I
did/do to Janis Joplin's voice.

ab348

driver100 said:

Except now I feel conspicuous.......my fans know when I am around.

Only when you're wearing that horizontally-striped polo shirt.

jmonroe1

abacomike said:

@cdnpinhead said:

How many miles were on it?

18,500

Almost due for its second oil change.

jmonroe

driver100

@ab348
Hope this pix with a solid colored shirt can replace the old one;

abacomike

@driver100 said:
@ab348
Hope this pix with a solid colored shirt can replace the old one;

It’s your legs. driver100, causing me nightmares, not your shirt!!! 🤪😜

jmonroe1

abacomike said:

@driver100 said:
@ab348

Hope this pix with a solid colored shirt can replace the old one;

It’s your legs. driver100, causing me nightmares, not your shirt!!! 🤪😜

Oh, is that what you call them?

jmonroe

driver100

abacomike said:

@driver100 said:
@ab348

Hope this pix with a solid colored shirt can replace the old one;

It’s your legs. driver100, causing me nightmares, not your shirt!!! 🤪😜

The picture was taken at a funny angle, my legs are actually not too bad....for a 74 year old
Maybe I'll take another picture and put it up.

venture

driver100 said:

abacomike said:

@driver100 said:
@ab348

Hope this pix with a solid colored shirt can replace the old one;

It’s your legs. driver100, causing me nightmares, not your shirt!!! 🤪😜

The picture was taken at a funny angle, my legs are actually not too bad....for a 74 year old
Maybe I'll take another picture and put it up.

Here ya go.

abacomike

@driver100 said:
The picture was taken at a funny angle, my legs are actually not too bad....for a 74 year old
Maybe I'll take another picture and put it up.

PLEASE DON’T!!! 🤪😜

jmonroe1

abacomike said:

@driver100 said:

The picture was taken at a funny angle, my legs are actually not too bad....for a 74 year old

Maybe I'll take another picture and put it up.

PLEASE DON’T!!! 🤪😜

You beat me to it.

I’m pretty sure Edmunds has an obscenity clause.

jmonroe

graphicguy

Finally saw a 4xx BMW on the road over the weekend. I like BMWs. But, I just can’t wrap my mind around the stying of those. They’re 10x worse than anything Bangle ever designed. I can’t see that style lasting much longer. And this is coming from a guy who liked the last Acura TL look.

Speaking of Lincoln, one of my favorite all time movies was LINCOLN with Daniel Day Lewis. Tremendous!

andres3

sda said:

Even as far south as where I am near Fort Mill, SC just outside of the Charlotte city limits, AWD, 4WD is all the rage. I have never felt the need to have AWD though the Q5 has the Quattro system which is the only way the Q5 is configured. The Q5 is the first vehicle we’ve owned that wasn’t 2WD.

The next time you are in the rain or snow just floor it from a dead stop.

andres3

snakeweasel said:

@sda said:

This is also an interesting read.

If it is like his other work on Lincoln it should be in the fiction section. He does a lot of strawman arguments, half truths, misrepresentation of facts and outright lies in his attacks on Lincoln. It seems as he is a southern apologetic and seems to promote the long discredited Lost Cause narrative.

Strawman, half-truths, misrepresentation, and lies?

Sounds like an excellent resume to get a job at the IIHS. They should hire him; he'll fit right in.

venture

I never saw this before.

andres3

venture said:

I never saw this before.

They should make the sticker "Computer Driver"

driver100

venture said:

driver100 said:

abacomike said:

@driver100 said:
@ab348

Hope this pix with a solid colored shirt can replace the old one;

It’s your legs. driver100, causing me nightmares, not your shirt!!! 🤪😜

The picture was taken at a funny angle, my legs are actually not too bad....for a 74 year old
Maybe I'll take another picture and put it up.

Here ya go.



I thought that picture got lost in cyberspace....but at least my legs came out pretty good. Maybe I can Photoshop them onto the other picture.

driver100

graphicguy said:

Finally saw a 4xx BMW on the road over the weekend. I like BMWs. But, I just can’t wrap my mind around the stying of those. They’re 10x worse than anything Bangle ever designed. I can’t see that style lasting much longer. And this is coming from a guy who liked the last Acura TL look.

Speaking of Lincoln, one of my favorite all time movies was LINCOLN with Daniel Day Lewis. Tremendous!

You mean this look:

Not my thing either....it looks like a 335 on steroids. It is really an X3 made to look more car like, but you get less rear passenger space and less trunk. To each his own.

Michaell

No, I think he meant this, with the traditional BMW grille inflated to 100 PSI...

qbrozen

Speaking of computer driver …. What the heck is up with car companies advertising hands free driving? Anyone see the Ford commercial where a Mach-e driver sets lane keep and takes his hands off the wheel? The car won’t let you do that. After about 10 secs, it starts beeping at you. Another 5 secs and it beeps louder and faster. I haven’t tried yet to push it past that to see what happens.
And there is another that irritates me, but I’m not even sure what car it is for. The driver sets it and starts clapping the beat to a song. WTH?

stickguy

Worse than the grill, those wheels and tires might not last 2 days around here with our bombed out roads. Germany must have incredible pavement.

cdnpinhead

They do, or did every time I was over there.

mjfloyd1

@qbrozen said:
Speaking of computer driver …. What the heck is up with car companies advertising hands free driving? Anyone see the Ford commercial where a Mach-e driver sets lane keep and takes his hands off the wheel? The car won’t let you do that. After about 10 secs, it starts beeping at you. Another 5 secs and it beeps louder and faster. I haven’t tried yet to push it past that to see what happens.
And there is another that irritates me, but I’m not even sure what car it is for. The driver sets it and starts clapping the beat to a song. WTH?

The clapping with hands off the steering wheel is GMC or Chevy. IIRC. Really odd that they advertise that. I could never trust auto drive.

graphicguy

driver100 said:

graphicguy said:

Finally saw a 4xx BMW on the road over the weekend. I like BMWs. But, I just can’t wrap my mind around the stying of those. They’re 10x worse than anything Bangle ever designed. I can’t see that style lasting much longer. And this is coming from a guy who liked the last Acura TL look.

Speaking of Lincoln, one of my favorite all time movies was LINCOLN with Daniel Day Lewis. Tremendous!

You mean this look:

Not my thing either....it looks like a 335 on steroids. It is really an X3 made to look more car like, but you get less rear passenger space and less trunk. To each his own.

Yes!

Michaell said:

No, I think he meant this, with the traditional BMW grille inflated to 100 PSI...

And definitely, yes!

abacomike

Got some bad news from my doctors this morning. I have a 2 cm wound opening in my back at the top of the surgical incision. It was infected so I completed a 10 day high dose of amoxicillin on Friday. But the wound is not healing and needs Debridement to remove dead tissues preventing healing. It may require me to go back into the hospital as this is usually done in the OR.

I’ll know more tomorrow morning when I see the neurosurgeon. I just can’t get a break. In addition my pain in my back is a bit worse than it was prior to surgery. My guess is he will want to do a fusion of L3, L4 and L5 vertebrae. I’m pretty depressed over this. 😩

roadburner

@mjfloyd1 said:

@qbrozen said:
Speaking of computer driver …. What the heck is up with car companies advertising hands free driving? Anyone see the Ford commercial where a Mach-e driver sets lane keep and takes his hands off the wheel? The car won’t let you do that. After about 10 secs, it starts beeping at you. Another 5 secs and it beeps louder and faster. I haven’t tried yet to push it past that to see what happens.
And there is another that irritates me, but I’m not even sure what car it is for. The driver sets it and starts clapping the beat to a song. WTH?

The clapping with hands off the steering wheel is GMC or Chevy. IIRC. Really odd that they advertise that. I could never trust auto drive.

Another automotive ad with the subliminal message,
“Our customers are clueless imbeciles- you can be one too!”

roadburner

Hang in there- you are the subject of a lot of thoughts and prayers.

explorerx4

GM has Super Cruise, their 'autonomous driving' technology and Ford has Blue Cruise, which I'm not sure is available yet. The Mach E is supposed to be upgradeable to Blue Cruise if it has Co-Pilot360.

carnaught

abacomike said:

Got some bad news from my doctors this morning. I have a 2 cm wound opening in my back at the top of the surgical incision. It was infected so I completed a 10 day high dose of amoxicillin on Friday. But the wound is not healing and needs Debridement to remove dead tissues preventing healing. It may require me to go back into the hospital as this is usually done in the OR.

I’ll know more tomorrow morning when I see the neurosurgeon. I just can’t get a break. In addition my pain in my back is a bit worse than it was prior to surgery. My guess is he will want to do a fusion of L3, L4 and L5 vertebrae. I pretty depressed over this. 😩

@abacomike, geez, so sorry to hear. Hang in there and keep us informed. Sending thoughts and prayers your way.

[Deleted User]

Sorry to hear that news @abacomike, but like the others, thoughts and prayers that you get the best outcome.

tjc78

Hang in there Mike, we are pulling for you.

abacomike

@mjfloyd1 said:

@qbrozen said:
Speaking of computer driver …. What the heck is up with car companies advertising hands free driving? Anyone see the Ford commercial where a Mach-e driver sets lane keep and takes his hands off the wheel? The car won’t let you do that. After about 10 secs, it starts beeping at you. Another 5 secs and it beeps louder and faster. I haven’t tried yet to push it past that to see what happens.
And there is another that irritates me, but I’m not even sure what car it is for. The driver sets it and starts clapping the beat to a song. WTH?

The clapping with hands off the steering wheel is GMC or Chevy. IIRC. Really odd that they advertise that. I could never trust auto drive.

My auto-steering system requires that my hand “not” be off the steering wheel for more than 30 seconds. If the car’s computer system senses that I have not held the steering wheel for more than 30 seconds, an audio chime sounds and disconnects autonomous steering and cruise control until my hand(s) is on the steering wheel again. It then resets autonomous steering and cruise control.

The Mercedes did the same thing but had a shorter interval (15 seconds IIRC).

explorerx4

Good luck Mike!

snakeweasel

@graphicguy said:
Finally saw a 4xx BMW on the road over the weekend. I like BMWs. But, I just can’t wrap my mind around the stying of those. They’re 10x worse than anything Bangle ever designed. I can’t see that style lasting much longer. And this is coming from a guy who liked the last Acura TL look.

Speaking of Lincoln, one of my favorite all time movies was LINCOLN with Daniel Day Lewis. Tremendous!

I rather like our 428i BMW.

tjc78

@abacomike said:

@mjfloyd1 said:

@qbrozen said:
Speaking of computer driver …. What the heck is up with car companies advertising hands free driving? Anyone see the Ford commercial where a Mach-e driver sets lane keep and takes his hands off the wheel? The car won’t let you do that. After about 10 secs, it starts beeping at you. Another 5 secs and it beeps louder and faster. I haven’t tried yet to push it past that to see what happens.
And there is another that irritates me, but I’m not even sure what car it is for. The driver sets it and starts clapping the beat to a song. WTH?

The clapping with hands off the steering wheel is GMC or Chevy. IIRC. Really odd that they advertise that. I could never trust auto drive.

My auto-steering system requires that my hand “not” be off the steering wheel for more than 30 seconds. If the car’s computer system senses that I have not held the steering wheel for more than 30 seconds, an audio chime sounds and disconnects autonomous steering and cruise control until my hand(s) is on the steering wheel again. It then resets autonomous steering and cruise control.

The Mercedes did the same thing but had a shorter interval (15 seconds IIRC).

My Volvo is the same way although closer to a minute I think. System works surprisingly well, holding the lane and steering around curves just like I would.

It is perfect to switch on if you want to open your water bottle or need to take your hands off the wheel for a second.

jmonroe1

andres3 said:

venture said:

I never saw this before.

They should make the sticker "Computer Driver"

They shouldn’t even make the sticker. We already know it.

jmonroe

snakeweasel

explorerx4 said:

GM has Super Cruise, their 'autonomous driving' technology and Ford has Blue Cruise, which I'm not sure is available yet. The Mach E is supposed to be upgradeable to Blue Cruise if it has Co-Pilot360.

If your car has an "autonomous driving" feature and you miss a few payments will it drive itself to the finance company?

driver100

snakeweasel said:

@graphicguy said:

Finally saw a 4xx BMW on the road over the weekend. I like BMWs. But, I just can’t wrap my mind around the stying of those. They’re 10x worse than anything Bangle ever designed. I can’t see that style lasting much longer. And this is coming from a guy who liked the last Acura TL look.

Speaking of Lincoln, one of my favorite all time movies was LINCOLN with Daniel Day Lewis. Tremendous!

I rather like our 428i BMW.

No, your BMW looks fine, and it is a 4 SERIES, not an X4.

driver100

I have to check it out but a friend said his friend is getting a 2022 MB S550 and it has voice steering. If you tell it to turn right it will turn right at the next street.
What could possibly go wrong................

driver100

Michaell said:

No, I think he meant this, with the traditional BMW grille inflated to 100 PSI...

It looks like he meant both are ugly but that one sure is uglier.

driver100

carnaught said:

abacomike said:

Got some bad news from my doctors this morning. I have a 2 cm wound opening in my back at the top of the surgical incision. It was infected so I completed a 10 day high dose of amoxicillin on Friday. But the wound is not healing and needs Debridement to remove dead tissues preventing healing. It may require me to go back into the hospital as this is usually done in the OR.

I’ll know more tomorrow morning when I see the neurosurgeon. I just can’t get a break. In addition my pain in my back is a bit worse than it was prior to surgery. My guess is he will want to do a fusion of L3, L4 and L5 vertebrae. I pretty depressed over this. 😩

@abacomike, geez, so sorry to hear. Hang in there and keep us informed. Sending thoughts and prayers your way.

Mike, you always come through for us.....we're with you all the way.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

@graphicguy said:

Finally saw a 4xx BMW on the road over the weekend. I like BMWs. But, I just can’t wrap my mind around the stying of those. They’re 10x worse than anything Bangle ever designed. I can’t see that style lasting much longer. And this is coming from a guy who liked the last Acura TL look.

Speaking of Lincoln, one of my favorite all time movies was LINCOLN with Daniel Day Lewis. Tremendous!

I rather like our 428i BMW.

No, your BMW looks fine, and it is a 4 SERIES, not an X4.


Well the OP said 4xx BMW which would suggest a 4 series (i.e. 428, 430, 440 and such) not an X4.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

I have to check it out but a friend said his friend is getting a 2022 MB S550 and it has voice steering. If you tell it to turn right it will turn right at the next street.
What could possibly go wrong................

Let's see, "Turn left right here".

How about a nautical version "Hard port rudder."

abacomike

@driver100 said:
I have to check it out but a friend said his friend is getting a 2022 MB S550 and it has voice steering. If you tell it to turn right it will turn right at the next street.
What could possibly go wrong................

Can’t be a 2022 S550 - it’s an S500 or S580.

tjc78

Hey Mike. You’ve owned a recent S and now the Genesis flagship. How would you compare the two? If they cost the same which one would you buy?

oldfarmer50

qbrozen said:

Speaking of computer driver …. What the heck is up with car companies advertising hands free driving? Anyone see the Ford commercial where a Mach-e driver sets lane keep and takes his hands off the wheel? The car won’t let you do that. After about 10 secs, it starts beeping at you. Another 5 secs and it beeps louder and faster. I haven’t tried yet to push it past that to see what happens.

And there is another that irritates me, but I’m not even sure what car it is for. The driver sets it and starts clapping the beat to a song. WTH?

They had that feature on the old Fusion as well but you’re right, while you could theoretically cruise down the highway and the car would keep it’s lane indefinitely, after a few seconds it would scream at you to put your hands back on the wheel.

It was fun though to see the car handle curves by itself.