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Old 08-13-07, 05:13 AM
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NICE pics, good contrast between the 2 cars. Especially the interiors!
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Holy crap there's a boatload of buttons on the door of the Mercedes and the center console of the Lexus.

I mean, yes it's better than i-Drive, but, Wow!!!!!
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Very nice.
Those are my 2 choices for my next car.
Makes the decision more difficult now.
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Just an opinion as always, but I don't feel you can look at these pictures and say the LS doesn't have a distinct look.
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Also the black interior, yes LS 600h version...leather dash not on LS 460:

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Not a fair comparison. Should compare it to the S550.

Otherwise I'd say in looks it's a tie. In the real world driving I'd take the LS. For driving up to the country club the S wins as it gets more respect.
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Well the S550 is sold as the S500 in Europe.
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Yep, the S500 in Europe has the same 5.5 litre V8 as the S550 here with the same hp, but they think Europe prefers the traditional S500 designation.
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Originally Posted by DanceEagle
Not a fair comparison. Should compare it to the S550.

Otherwise I'd say in looks it's a tie. In the real world driving I'd take the LS. For driving up to the country club the S wins as it gets more respect.
what are you talking about?! like enigma said, that's s550. the pics are from european sites i believe. it's s500 everywhere else, only s550 in the states coz' most people are too "into" the numbers
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Originally Posted by rominl
what are you talking about?! like enigma said, that's s550. the pics are from european sites i believe. it's s500 everywhere else, only s550 in the states coz' most people are too "into" the numbers
But either way it's a misnomer, since it's a 5.4L under the hood.

The Mercedes marketing guys must've been paid tons to "research" on which numbers "sound" or "resonate" the best.
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Originally Posted by rominl
what are you talking about?! like enigma said, that's s550. the pics are from european sites i believe. it's s500 everywhere else, only s550 in the states coz' most people are too "into" the numbers
Yep, they're from the German autobild website, & they have been posted here before in another thread.


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