Quote from: whaddaiknow on December 10, 2018, 09:43:58 pmI absolutely love these modern luxury American land speed boats. Always have and wish I could sport one but my wife would divorce me before I could finish the sentence with the words "Lincoln Continental" in it. And unfortunately, it wouldn't even fit in the garage beside the Odyssey.well, the likely great thing about this car is you can likely find a mint condition used one in a few years for pennies on the dollar...the Taurus i had before my Rio5 was $33k++ brand new...i got it 18 months old with 33k kms on it for $18k all in...basically half the price in 18 months...still had the rest of the warranty and it was actually a pretty decent car for me (in terms of reliability)...only put 2 sets of brakes, a tune up (timing belt, spark plugs, etc) and a set of tires and i had it 10 years.
I absolutely love these modern luxury American land speed boats. Always have and wish I could sport one but my wife would divorce me before I could finish the sentence with the words "Lincoln Continental" in it. And unfortunately, it wouldn't even fit in the garage beside the Odyssey.
Quote from: Gurgie on December 11, 2018, 08:56:33 amQuote from: dirtyjeffer on December 10, 2018, 11:07:21 pmQuote from: whaddaiknow on December 10, 2018, 09:43:58 pmI absolutely love these modern luxury American land speed boats. Always have and wish I could sport one but my wife would divorce me before I could finish the sentence with the words "Lincoln Continental" in it. And unfortunately, it wouldn't even fit in the garage beside the Odyssey.well, the likely great thing about this car is you can likely find a mint condition used one in a few years for pennies on the dollar...the Taurus i had before my Rio5 was $33k++ brand new...i got it 18 months old with 33k kms on it for $18k all in...basically half the price in 18 months...still had the rest of the warranty and it was actually a pretty decent car for me (in terms of reliability)...only put 2 sets of brakes, a tune up (timing belt, spark plugs, etc) and a set of tires and i had it 10 years.People bash the NA manufacturers, but if you can weed out some of the turds in their line-up, you can get a great bargain just as you've pointed out! Yup. A lot of turds from the NA manufacturers but also some great ones and great deals - even if it's just a handful.
Quote from: dirtyjeffer on December 10, 2018, 11:07:21 pmQuote from: whaddaiknow on December 10, 2018, 09:43:58 pmI absolutely love these modern luxury American land speed boats. Always have and wish I could sport one but my wife would divorce me before I could finish the sentence with the words "Lincoln Continental" in it. And unfortunately, it wouldn't even fit in the garage beside the Odyssey.well, the likely great thing about this car is you can likely find a mint condition used one in a few years for pennies on the dollar...the Taurus i had before my Rio5 was $33k++ brand new...i got it 18 months old with 33k kms on it for $18k all in...basically half the price in 18 months...still had the rest of the warranty and it was actually a pretty decent car for me (in terms of reliability)...only put 2 sets of brakes, a tune up (timing belt, spark plugs, etc) and a set of tires and i had it 10 years.People bash the NA manufacturers, but if you can weed out some of the turds in their line-up, you can get a great bargain just as you've pointed out!
Kinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out.
Quote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 01:36:59 pmKinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. My buddy absolutely loves his a couple of months in to ownership, no complaints whatsoever.
I bet he does! Lovely car! I forgot about it having suicide rear doors. That's just cool in itself!
Quote from: Hammy on February 01, 2019, 07:17:13 pmQuote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 01:36:59 pmKinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. My buddy absolutely loves his a couple of months in to ownership, no complaints whatsoever. I bet he does! Lovely car! I forgot about it having suicide rear doors. That's just cool in itself!
Quote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 07:31:22 pmQuote from: Hammy on February 01, 2019, 07:17:13 pmQuote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 01:36:59 pmKinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. [emoji14]My buddy absolutely loves his a couple of months in to ownership, no complaints whatsoever. I bet he does! Lovely car! I forgot about it having suicide rear doors. That's just cool in itself! Only the limited production, stretched Coach Door Edition has suicide doors.
Quote from: Hammy on February 01, 2019, 07:17:13 pmQuote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 01:36:59 pmKinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. [emoji14]My buddy absolutely loves his a couple of months in to ownership, no complaints whatsoever. I bet he does! Lovely car! I forgot about it having suicide rear doors. That's just cool in itself!
Quote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 01:36:59 pmKinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. [emoji14]My buddy absolutely loves his a couple of months in to ownership, no complaints whatsoever.
Kinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. [emoji14]
Quote from: OliverD on February 02, 2019, 11:09:12 amQuote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 07:31:22 pmQuote from: Hammy on February 01, 2019, 07:17:13 pmQuote from: KD on February 01, 2019, 01:36:59 pmKinda sad that I have only seen a couple of Contis in the flesh since they came out. [emoji14]My buddy absolutely loves his a couple of months in to ownership, no complaints whatsoever. I bet he does! Lovely car! I forgot about it having suicide rear doors. That's just cool in itself! Only the limited production, stretched Coach Door Edition has suicide doors.And they're completely sold out in pre-orders!
Maybe making them all with suicide doors is how to increase sales; USP and all that.
Quote from: Scaerio on February 02, 2019, 11:39:13 pmMaybe making them all with suicide doors is how to increase sales; USP and all that.that would actually have been a really good idea...give them something to differentiate themselves with...only offering it with a limited run of 80 vehicles is stupid.
Quote from: dirtyjeffer on February 04, 2019, 11:49:46 amQuote from: Scaerio on February 02, 2019, 11:39:13 pmMaybe making them all with suicide doors is how to increase sales; USP and all that.that would actually have been a really good idea...give them something to differentiate themselves with...only offering it with a limited run of 80 vehicles is stupid.I thought they were going to do a second run of suicide door models for 2020 as well.
It's probably too expensive to be realistic though. It think the intent with this model is to drum up interest in the normal one.
Quote from: OliverD on February 04, 2019, 01:06:49 pmIt's probably too expensive to be realistic though. It think the intent with this model is to drum up interest in the normal one.if they can carry the cost to do 80, it makes far more sense to make that "standard" and have all of them that way.
Quote from: dirtyjeffer on February 04, 2019, 01:58:36 pmQuote from: OliverD on February 04, 2019, 01:06:49 pmIt's probably too expensive to be realistic though. It think the intent with this model is to drum up interest in the normal one.if they can carry the cost to do 80, it makes far more sense to make that "standard" and have all of them that way.Those 80 are literally more than double the price of the base model though.
Yes, and they'd lose even more money if they made it standard is my point.