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Old Oct 23, 2023 | 06:18 PM
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Here is a good comparison of the 7 series, S class and A8. I usually love the A8’s but it just feels outclassed in this comparison and looks a little dated. The 7 just looks too big and I just don’t feel the dash of the S class looks it’s price.


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Whoever it was working on the car is an idiot and has no regard for peoples property. That or an ostrich ran into your car.
Totally. What was weird was when I came to pick it up all of them were there even though the shop was closed, and we chatted about the crazy holes in the tires, it wasn’t like it was hidden and they were trying to get away with it. I don’t think they even pulled it into the shop because where I parked it off the tow truck is right where it was and the bay they sat it in front of wasn’t a regular bay. I think they just came out with floor jacks and took the wheels off.

I walked around that side of the car and checked the wheels for damage and didn’t see that, I was looking at the wheels so I’m assuming I just missed it, really weird. I would be open to the possibility it happened after that but it really think I would have heard that…

I know it wasn’t there before Walmart because I have pictures of it with the flat tires and on the tow truck and there is no dent…

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Sounds like you picked a guy who won't buckle under pressure.
I see what you did there lol

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Old Oct 23, 2023 | 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by patgilm
Here is a good comparison of the 7 series, S class and A8. I usually love the A8’s but it just feels outclassed in this comparison and looks a little dated. The 7 just looks too big and I just don’t feel the dash of the S class looks it’s price.

https://youtu.be/JULhU1ZktFo?si=t7Vaz953yer9Q8Cd
Thats a good review, I watched it a while back. Both are better in person, the 7 doesn’t look as large and the interior looks better in the S, but I agree neither is ideal.
Old Oct 23, 2023 | 08:03 PM
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A bird LOL, must have been a turkey vulture.



That seems a bit much, must be Montgomery County pricing. I would have guessed $400 max.
Or Big Bird from sesame street. Lol

Sorry to hear about your car @SW17LS .

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I’m wondering if I ran over some guy and just didn’t realize lol. I mean, it was a long day!
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I’m wondering if I ran over some guy and just didn’t realize lol. I mean, it was a long day!
I know what you did last summer!
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I’m wondering if I ran over some guy and just didn’t realize lol. I mean, it was a long day!
that's three thousand dolluhs here three thousand dolluhs!!
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that's three thousand dolluhs here three thousand dolluhs!!
Hahahahaha. I wasn’t aware you were a Sopranos fan as well, figures!

“HMO! You’re covered! Ya *****!!!!”

(You can tell that’s a pilot because no WAY would Tony expose himself like that over one loan….great scene regardless!)

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Hahahahaha, thats great!

We left my cousins at 11:30, and we rolled into our driveway at 9:55, so 10.5 hours for what is supposed to be a 5 hour trip, I was pretty zapped lol. My wife asked me multiple times if I wanted her to take over driving but I was doing 85-90 trying to get home!
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Hahahahaha. I wasn’t aware you were a Sopranos fan as well, figures!

“HMO! You’re covered! Ya *****!!!!”

(You can tell that’s a pilot because no WAY would Tony expose himself like that over one loan….great scene regardless!)
seriously it's not like the guy stole an incoming shipment of gabagool!

but hell yea i loved the sopranos! it's only icing on the cake that christafuh drove an LS 400 and a mercedes right afterword lol

can't lie i do want an old maroon suburban and a gold day-date just to wear as i drive around and smoke cigars haha... then take the occasional call from my dumb whiney spineless son who never had the makings of a varsity athlete
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My other car is a hybrid, I think I’m legit!


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seriously it's not like the guy stole an incoming shipment of gabagool!

but hell yea i loved the sopranos! it's only icing on the cake that christafuh drove an LS 400 and a mercedes right afterword lol

can't lie i do want an old maroon suburban and a gold day-date just to wear as i drive around and smoke cigars haha... then take the occasional call from my dumb whiney spineless son who never had the makings of a varsity athlete
That was a '97 Coach edition which had the really bland 95-97 styling, but that special edition had the '98-00 wheels (IIRC) so it looked better. I remember being in awe of that Lexus the first time I watched, lol.

And yeah I bought a Rolex because of the Sopranos in 2007 lol but it ain't no $30,000 solid gold Presidential like Tony's hahahah.
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That was a '97 Coach edition which had the really bland 95-97 styling, but that special edition had the '98-00 wheels (IIRC) so it looked better. I remember being in awe of that Lexus the first time I watched, lol.

And yeah I bought a Rolex because of the Sopranos in 2007 lol but it ain't no $30,000 solid gold Presidential like Tony's hahahah.
you also bought it

his probably "fell off" the back of a truck lmao

yea it had the 1998 wheels which were a nice touch, but i'm pretty sure at some point they were swapped for some kind of chrome 19s before he went on to the benz... i think the final moltisanti ride was the 2nd gen range rover which i also always liked the looks of
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Chris had the LS, the MB CLK, the Range Rover, then that got stolen and he had a beater Pontiac Bonneville, then he drove Johnny Sack’s Maserati, then he had a Hummer H2, then he had an Escalade with the truck bed, and that’s what Tony killed him in lol
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you also bought it

his probably "fell off" the back of a truck lmao

yea it had the 1998 wheels which were a nice touch, but i'm pretty sure at some point they were swapped for some kind of chrome 19s before he went on to the benz... i think the final moltisanti ride was the 2nd gen range rover which i also always liked the looks of
He threw 5 spokes on the LS.

RR was nice but got jacked… lol.

His last vehicle was a Cadillac Escalade EXT.

My favorite car of his is probably that CLK as long as it was the 430 with the V8.



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