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S58 in Supra/Z4?

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S58 in Supra/Z4?

Post by Pondrew » Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:03 pm

sars wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:44 am Quick question: -
1) Do BMW make any good looking cars?
2) Do Mercedes make any bad looking ones?
No
Yes, all of them.

All cars have become too 'corporate', due to sharing components to make them cheaper and easier to make IMO.

Sorry but the G29 looks like a new Merc SL to me. I struggle to tell them apart on the road. 'Pays your money, takes your choice'.
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S58 in Supra/Z4?

Post by john-e89 » Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:00 am

Pondrew wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:03 pm
sars wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:44 am Quick question: -
1) Do BMW make any good looking cars?
2) Do Mercedes make any bad looking ones?
No
Yes, all of them.

All cars have become too 'corporate', due to sharing components to make them cheaper and easier to make IMO.

Sorry but the G29 looks like a new Merc SL to me. I struggle to tell them apart on the road. 'Pays your money, takes your choice'.
Should’ve gone to specsavers….and a modest specced £120k to a specced £60k…..you need to take more water with it Pondlington… :poke: :evil:
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S58 in Supra/Z4?

Post by sars » Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:17 pm

john-e89 wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:41 pm
sars wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:23 pm Argyll Andy, yes the Z4 has some lovely angles, but the front could be better if I'm honest.
Silverstar, I've seen a few new 7's and in the flesh they are even more hideous, imposing, only the grill is and not in a good way :sick2:
buzyg, 8 series, okay it's not fugly, but it aint no stunner either. G wagon, not argument there :lol:
So Sars, what’s your take on why they’re currently only offering the manual Zed in those Saturday night pavement spewed colours..? Seems too ridiculous to be true to me…, yet there it is, in reality…. :?
I have registered my interest with BMW York for G29 manual as long as it is not in the hideous green. In Germany you could, from the launch, order one in any of the available colours, it's just here you can't. and I reckon it is some arrogant pen pusher at BMW UK who picked a "trendy" colour because he was the one that stated no one will but a manual G29 in the UK so picked a colour that no one in the right mind would pick. I would love one in frozen grey with the cognac interior.

Though if I'm being honest, I'm more likely to go with the new Mercedes CLE cabriolet, would love the 450 but do not think it is worth £10K more than the 300
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S58 in Supra/Z4?

Post by sars » Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:25 pm

john-e89 wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:00 am
Pondrew wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:03 pm
Sorry but the G29 looks like a new Merc SL to me. I struggle to tell them apart on the road. 'Pays your money, takes your choice'.
Should’ve gone to specsavers….and a modest specced £120k to a specced £60k…..you need to take more water with it Pondlington… :poke: :evil:
I reckon it's just the side effects of his wife slowly poisoning him :o
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Post by BeardyJon » Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:18 pm

B21 wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:19 pm Just ain’t going to happen..they can’t sell the current G29..making a fringe event of a fringe product..financial suicide…..I’m still taking bets in how many manual versions will be sold in 2024… :poke: :tumbleweed:
I woulda been much more open to considering a manual G29 if they let you pick any other colour than old man green and brown. :sick:
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