Anyone test driven a MAYBACH?

"Dori A Schmetterling" haute in die Tasten:

Nice Idea, but my other car would probably be a Mercedes W111 280 SE 3.5 convertible, rebuilt and fitted with a 560 SEC powertrain by Autoschmiede

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And the only sticker on it would be the TUEV approval stamp on the license plate;-)

Frank

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Frank Kemper
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Some butts are not ugly. That phrase always seems too sweeping.

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greek_philosophizer

There is a British look feel and SMELL????

Could you elaborate on this? I am visting London in three weeks and I need to be prepared.

( Hopefully this look, feel and smell is like Elizabeth Hurley ).

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greek_philosophizer

visting London in three weeks and I need to be prepared.

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Bill Ditmire

greek snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (greek_philosophizer) haute in die Tasten:

This is a simple one. If you take a big box of car components, ship them to the deepest british countryside, shoot some british cattle and peel off their skin to make conolly leather out of them, take your swedish husquarna chainsaw and cut down some british trees to get the wood for the dashboard from, take some british sheep and shave them for the wool for the carpets. Then take a bunch of british workers, supply them with only two working overalls (in order to prevent too many clothes swaps), put them into the british factory site in the british countryside and have them assemble a car from all the parts mentioned above - the result will without a doubt smell british...

There is a rumour that UK citizens in general do not focus their intrest too much upon their own cleanliness. As a rule of thumb I cannot entirely confirm this rumour from the few dozens Britains I have met closely in my life.

Frank

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Frank Kemper

It's ENGLISH, not British... The only thing that's British around here is citizenship and the government. Everything else is English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish...

DAS

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Dori A Schmetterling

In which area are you going to stay? Just curious.

DAS

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Dori A Schmetterling

Speaking of Rolls, a few evenings ago, I saw a brand-new black Phantom driving quite aggressively down a major thoroughfare in my city. At a stoplight, I got close enough to get a better look. That car is HUGE. In pictures, it appears not to be outsized, but that's because it's bigger than a normal luxury car in *every* dimension. The beltline of the doors was nearly to the roofline of most other cars on the road.

From the back, it looked quite sporty, but from the front, it looked like a stodgy old Rolls.

Personally, no matter how powerful the engine, I don't think I'd be throwing around a brand new $350,000 car quite as aggressively as the driver of this particular Rolls was doing that evening--at least not on a crowded city street during the evening commute.

--Paul

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Paul Wylie

hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha THUNK hahahahaha roflol

Thets a gud un, Bill!

mcbrue laughingly under the bridge in the trailer down by the river

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MCBRUE

That is the part that I have been unable to decide upon.

I have never been to England and so I am allocating a weekend to correct that situation. I am flying in on a Friday and flying out the next Monday.

I have not been able to choose between getting a car and being extremely mobile or just getting a hotel in some part of London or some other city and just meandering about.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

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greek_philosophizer

One can see from 100.000 miles apart the wrong track etc. of these Autoschmiede things... ===:-((((((

Juergen - nothing beats the original here

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Juergen .

You might need a bit more than a weekend...

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the guvnor

"Juergen ." haute in die Tasten:

Okay with the wrong track, but what else is obvious? Besides this: It is a matter of fact that I like the design of the old 280SE far more than everything which has left Mercedes assembly lines in the last 20 years.

Frank

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Frank Kemper

Nah. England is a bit of land on a little island off the coast of Europe. Arrive Fri/Sat, bleary-eyed. Straight off the plane into a London city bus tour (snooze at the stops), in the afternoon stop at the Tower of London and Houses of Parliament. Evening meal in typical (means 'any') pub.

Next morning take taxi tour of Cambridge, Oxford, Bath (and nearby Bristol with Clifton Suspension Bridge). Late afternoon whizz round Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick (pronounced 'worrick' and not 'wor-wick') Castle) and back onto plane.

Take one-week holiday in the depths of the Adirondaks to recover...

Blimey, I feel knackered just reading that....

DAS

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Dori A Schmetterling

15 inch rims instead of original 14 inch, body sitting a bit too high, original cars only had clear or green tinted windows, not blueish ones, top round-headlamps H7 or sth. like that, but not original style...

But ok, I admit I am one of those freaks who also complains about a 1968 /8 with integrated Halogen-headlights as non-original...

No doubt these cars were some very clean and at the same time very impressive designs.

Juergen - admittedly a die-hard originality-freak

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Juergen .

"Juergen ." haute in die Tasten:

AFAIK these cars are hand made, so it is up to you wether you want as much historical accuracy as possible or a more contemporary layout. Ok, you are even free to take some 100.000 dollars and buy one original car in mint condition. I'd seriously prefer the best of both worlds.

Frank

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Frank Kemper

Having crossed the bridge and gotten over to the other side in Merry Olde Englande, I might suggest that a weekend could be spent just in London. And then maybe a few more days in London also. And then maybe a week or so in London. and then you could go upcountry a ways. Stoke on Trent area has some nice dishes for sale as I remember. And of course there are the other places in England where there is some history - like every 10 feet or so! Of course you have to realize that one reason it takes so long in London is that they name each street with several names, each lasting about one block. It might take you several days just to find Fleet Street, for example! And you have to be very carefull when asking directions of the natives - they tend to enjoy talking to Amerikans and it can take a while. Anyway, enjoy!

mcbrue amerikanly under the bridge in the trailer down by the river

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MCBRUE

Hi Dori,

Thank you for the suggestions. I will have 3+ days ( Friday Morning to Monday Afternoon ) so I think I can fit all that in. Do you have any insider information on good places or areas to stay? I will attempt to make some sort of mercedes observation so that I can plausibly claim this is somehow on topic.

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greek_philosophizer

How long is a piece of string?....

Budget?

Try looking for Maybachs... But not too much as you won't see much, neither Maybachs nor the sights...

DAS

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Dori A Schmetterling

I really, really, really hate to nutpick again, but Connolly ended production in June 2002.

It is always the same story:

1st generation founds a solid company 2nd generation keeps it 3rd generation ruins it

GERMAN language article at

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Juergen

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