Jay Leno is doing stand up tonight at the show and I'm sitting in a CLA for the first time. Feels so cheap! Horrible looking gauges. Idiotic dash with an iPad glued to it. Roofline makes the interior very crampt.

the glk is still my favorite, lots of bang for the buck and a real throwback interior. Diesel all wheel drive can be had for under 40k. I could pretend its a wagon.

Also the new Corolla interior quality is outstanding. Same goes for the new big Buick sedan, but they are smokin crack asking 50k for a well equipped model.

They all look the same on the outside.

I laughed at the new Chrysler 200. 9 speed tranny?

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Yeah, it's a huge improvement over the old one, which felt like a slight cheapening of the one before that.

Jay Leno doing standup? Where was he when the show was in Boston? Wow.

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

I was more impressed by the $5,000,000 worth of antique cars displayed near the escalators than anything else I saw there.

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

I think we had a few stanced cars with 1500# sounds systems.

Jay Leno, antique cars... I'm comin' to Kansas next year.

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Cars, as in plural? Heck, in January that's the price for just one . . .

Better to come to Missouri. That's where Kansas City is.


It's complicated.

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

I'll be heading to the NY one next month.

I have been going for years and every year I go I want to buy something less and less.

The new CTS is quite nice, as are the new Buicks. Pricing is insane on the Buick's though.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

*facepalm*

That's right. Oklahoma City is throwing me again. Id be wandering around in Topeka: "Excuse me, can you tell me where the KS City Autoshow is?"

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

I drove the CLA a month or so ago at my local dealer and it may have been a Altima I was driving. I hated it. I'm really worried the new C-Class is going to be the same.

The 200 has a 9 speed transmission? Why bother.