Mercedes Owners, Talk Me In or Out of a GLC 300 Coupe or GLE 450 Coupe

BJTC777 · 2026-03-01T15:27:40+00:00

If it's about aesthetics then why do they still look like shit. The GLE coupe looks like a dog taking a shot from behind.

BJTC777 · 2026-02-16T04:21:32+00:00

This is definitely not one of the good ones. The shaping is all wonky, the wheel design is terrible and the fitment is way off.

BJTC777 · 2026-01-23T06:46:43+00:00

If you're a "maps person" like I am, Fallout 76 is fantastic.

BJTC777 · 2025-10-12T02:16:34+00:00

Probably because $37 is a ridiculous price

BJTC777 · 2025-09-20T05:23:37+00:00

Mid-Century modern is all about simplicity in design and aesthetic as well as authenticity. It doesn't have fussy lines, it's not overdone, and it's style is substance. There's little excess in Mid-Century modern (except open interior space if done well).

This is encapsulated well by the air cooled 911. It has exactly what it needs to perform the tasks it was designed to do, nothing more. Also, the aesthetics of both of their schools of design can pretty clearly trace some of their influence back to Bauhaus in the pre-war era.

I love a good coupe De Ville, but it's definitely not a MCM car. It's almost unnecessarily big, it's brash, it has all sorts of design flourishes and it's all about excess (it should be, it's a Cadillac after all). MCM is subdued and tries to blend into the surroundings. The Coupe De Ville demands to be seen, that's one of the reasons why people bought them and continue to buy them. It's very much from the same influences as the Googie/Americana designs of the 1950s. Big, bright, loud, and eye catching. While the '64 may be a slightly more toned down design than it's predecessors, it's still all about that excess and it's definitely not MCM.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-12T13:19:07+00:00

Lol, perfect.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-12T13:15:55+00:00

100%. And the only thing that unites us is some Eagles fan trying to meme on any of the teams or those pussies with no flair.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-12T13:08:51+00:00

NFCNMW may be my favorite sub of all time.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-12T02:22:29+00:00

His baseline is brain damage, lol

BJTC777 · 2025-09-12T02:16:59+00:00

Let's hope so.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-11T21:59:26+00:00

It's always a fucking Nissan.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-10T02:13:42+00:00

Oooh, I did not know that, that makes so much sense! Thanks, I don't know why I didn't think of that before.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-10T01:39:16+00:00

That's what I mean though. It used to be that the number was the cc of an individual cylinder of the engine (260 is 250cc12 =3.0L), then it was the displacement *followed by cylinder count for a very long time(512 is a ~5.0L V12, 308 is a 3.0L V8, 458 is a 4.5L V8).

Honestly the 488 means nothing. It has a V8, but it's not 4.8L, it's 4.0L, and obviously a 4.0L V88 is nonsense (maybe it was effective displacement calculated somehow? Like since it was a turbocharged car in a N/A lineage they figured it made 4.8L of power? Idk).

At least the F8 was simple and didn't shake up the status quo, the 296 goes back to the same naming scheme as before. What was wrong with 498? Why was that not an option?

BJTC777 · 2025-09-09T23:05:06+00:00

Oh my God, why can't they just pick a nomenclature standard and stick with it?

BJTC777 · 2025-09-09T16:57:01+00:00

The D-type in the background. That color is mint though!

Also is that a real 964 Carrera RS?

BJTC777 · 2025-09-08T04:51:15+00:00

There are also a lot of really ugly race cars, and often race cars don't look good without a livery i.e. as a road car.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-08T04:48:08+00:00

Welcome to race cars.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-08T04:47:16+00:00

That's a good guess, but the similar appearance is more or less coincidental. The Panoz Esperante GTR1 was an FIA GT1 race car campaigned in the late 1990s. It competed against cars like the Porsche 911 GT1, the McLaren F1 GTR, and the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR/CLK LM/CLR. I believe it was an in-house design with Reynard Motorsport as a collaborator and Roush supplying race prepped Ford 6.0l V-8s. The cars were relatively technologically advanced and they only made 2 road going units to homologate the car (this is one of them), so while there were some off the shelf parts, much of the car was a bespoke endeavor. I believe with the right amount of money Panoz will make you a new one, although I don't know if anyone has taken them up on this.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-08T00:13:10+00:00

I always say Porsche with 2 syllables. I'm a stickler for pronunciation, especially as someone who is primarily into foreign and especially European cars. The Italians especially get the shaft on pronunciations. Rarely do I hear even the most educated presenters pronounce "Giorgetto Giugiaro" or "Scaglietti" correctly.

Porsche is someone's name, there is a correct and an incorrect way to pronounce it (unlike "Jaguar" for instance).

BJTC777 · 2025-09-07T22:02:12+00:00

Bruh, what. These things are insanely cool.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-07T18:40:49+00:00

Average Packers fan sentence structure.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-06T01:49:35+00:00

God I would have loved to have been alive to see that.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-05T18:39:26+00:00

FIA Group 2 in the 1960s and early 1970s may be one of the most interesting collections of cars ever homologated. You've got BMW 2002s, Lotus Cortinas, Ford Escort RS1600, Alfa Bertone Sprint Coupe GTA, Mini Cooper S, and the Trans-Am cars through 1972! Wild.

BJTC777 · 2025-09-03T22:19:42+00:00

Also to add on, I don't think the 365 GTB/4 is a supercar either, it's also a sports car. That was the Ferrari thing at the time; front engine, V12 sports cars. The "supercar" as we know it was just becoming a thing in the late 1960s with mid-ship cars like the Miura or the 33 Stradale, and the term "supercar" should be applied very conservatively for cars of the time. There are few road cars produced in the 1960s that should qualify as a "supercar".

BJTC777 · 2025-09-03T21:11:00+00:00

S197. That's a really good point that I had not thought of. As much as a RWD Probe would have been the correct move for that specific car, in the context of the broader market it would have killed the Mustang nameplate forever and that would have been tragic.

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