Topic: Why I Took a Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S to the Indianapolis 500

[pi314]

With a VW I'd be worried the air suspension would get stuck 

[sailor723]

You saw a VW Touareg with air suspension that worked? 

[lebowski]

With a VW I'd be worried the air suspension would get stuck 

You saw a VW Touareg with air suspension that worked? 

Lol yeah, a real unicorn. Needless to say, i stopped researching T-reg's after that week

[Railton]

See, that didn't take long - Jacob tackles the Indy 500 tour in a VW Touareg with broken air suspension. A winner story!
See?
Railton

[Bubba]

So, you should've taken the Civic then.
Railton

I tried to make it more interesting for you guys!

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

[JacobBlack]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

[Fobroader]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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[mmret]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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Can we make him go in an Arthur Dent special? That would be an epic road trip. The resulting article and pictures would be for the ages, forever immortalized in CTC lore.

Editors, make it so.

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[Fobroader]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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Can we make him go in an Arthur Dent special? That would be an epic road trip. The resulting article and pictures would be for the ages, forever immortalized in CTC lore.

Editors, make it so.

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But in something truly sketchy, like a turbo BMW with 100k kms or an AMG Merc with over 4 oil changes lol

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[Railton]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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Can we make him go in an Arthur Dent special? That would be an epic road trip. The resulting article and pictures would be for the ages, forever immortalized in CTC lore.

Editors, make it so.

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But in something truly sketchy, like a turbo BMW with 100k kms or an AMG Merc with over 4 oil changes lol

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Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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[mmret]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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Can we make him go in an Arthur Dent special? That would be an epic road trip. The resulting article and pictures would be for the ages, forever immortalized in CTC lore.

Editors, make it so.

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But in something truly sketchy, like a turbo BMW with 100k kms or an AMG Merc with over 4 oil changes lol

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Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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I was thinking something more along the lines of der Grösser.

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[Fobroader]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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Can we make him go in an Arthur Dent special? That would be an epic road trip. The resulting article and pictures would be for the ages, forever immortalized in CTC lore.

Editors, make it so.

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But in something truly sketchy, like a turbo BMW with 100k kms or an AMG Merc with over 4 oil changes lol

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Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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I was thinking something more along the lines of der Grösser.

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But that's a proper, over built, over engineered MB, I meant like a newer slapped together, rental spec FGC.....coast to coast.

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[Ex-airbalancer]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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Can we make him go in an Arthur Dent special? That would be an epic road trip. The resulting article and pictures would be for the ages, forever immortalized in CTC lore.

Editors, make it so.

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But in something truly sketchy, like a turbo BMW with 100k kms or an AMG Merc with over 4 oil changes lol

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Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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He could take our 2000 BMW 3 series 

[dirtyjeffer]

Should have taken a Yugo then.   

Ha! I didn't want to kill my family!
Tell you what though, I will work as hard as I can to find something truly ridiculous to take next year.
All help accepted.

Can't believe you made it all the way in an FGC without something catch on fire, next time don't risk it, take a Toyota with 600,000km+, it will be safer

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not so fast...my friend's 1 year old Focus caught on fire during a road trip to Mosport a couple of years ago...had the car about 5 months...written off in the parking lot at Mosport (their fire crew put it out)...replaced it with a Fusion (which has been trouble free).

[dirtyjeffer]

Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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ask Hammy if you can borrow his (or did he already dump it?).

[mixmanmash]

Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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ask Hammy if you can borrow his (or did he already dump it?).

Dumped it for a Golf R.

[johngenx]

Another unbelievably overweight "truck" from a German maker with a massive price tag.  Suppose at least Porsche is using some of the windfall profits to give us things like the Cayman.

[rrocket]

I just love Indy. And the city. And the restaurants.

It's the motorsport trips we look most forward to every year. I was REALLY upset when MotoGP stopped going there. By far the best motorsport weekend I've ever attended.

If anyone ever goes..send me a PM. I'll tell you where to stay, where to eat, etc

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[dirtyjeffer]

Oooooh yes, good one - a road trip to the Indy 500 in a 5 year old BMW 335i with over 100k Kms!
Well done!
Railton



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ask Hammy if you can borrow his (or did he already dump it?).

Dumped it for a Golf R.

ahh...likely a good move.

[mixmanmash]

Another unbelievably overweight "truck" from a German maker with a massive price tag.  Suppose at least Porsche is using some of the windfall profits to give us things like the Cayman.

They should really pull a Range Rover/Land Rover and go all aluminum to shave weight.  Would likely help performance and fuel economy.  And Lord knows, at this price, they should be able to.  This is definitely a lot larger than a Cayenne or Toureg though.  More in line with an LR4 or forthcoming Discovery (not Disco Sport, which is a totally different animal).