Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. New car

New car

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
30 Posts 13 Posters 293 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • 89th8 Offline
    89th8 Offline
    89th
    wrote on last edited by
    #19

    Gorgeous vehicle.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • KlausK Klaus

      @george-k said in New car:

      Looks nice!

      Does the US allow rear-facing seats?

      @klaus said in New car:

      They sell something they call the "Metris", but its a quite different car.

      How so?

      Metris.
      alt text

      V class.
      alt text

      I rest my case.

      Also, I believe a Metris is a ~ $40K car. The V class with a few standard options selected is around twice that amount.

      George KG Offline
      George KG Offline
      George K
      wrote on last edited by
      #20

      @klaus said in New car:

      I rest my case.

      Good lord.

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

      1 Reply Last reply
      • KlausK Klaus

        I'll probably pull the trigger on Monday.

        The Hyundai Santa Fe we have is getting too small for extended family trips.

        We've decided to get a Mercedes V Class Van.

        This is what they look like (ours will have black leather, though, not brown). There's no denying that it's still a van, but for a van they made it look decent.

        alt text
        alt text
        alt text
        alt text
        alt text

        I think you can't buy these in the US, by the way. They sell something they call the "Metris", but its a quite different car.

        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girl
        wrote on last edited by
        #21

        @klaus Beautiful! I think you will enjoy it.

        In regard to the rear facing seats - I assume they will flip the other way like in a train so they can face forward if you want?

        1 Reply Last reply
        • KlausK Offline
          KlausK Offline
          Klaus
          wrote on last edited by
          #22

          Bought it today.

          @taiwan_girl the seats can be flipped in either direction. Everything is mounted on rails. It's also very simple (but requires some heavy lifting) to remove seats. We'll probably remove one seat most of the time, such that we have more space for stuff.

          89th8 1 Reply Last reply
          • brendaB Offline
            brendaB Offline
            brenda
            wrote on last edited by
            #23

            Very nice, Klaus! It should serve you well.

            1 Reply Last reply
            • KlausK Klaus

              Bought it today.

              @taiwan_girl the seats can be flipped in either direction. Everything is mounted on rails. It's also very simple (but requires some heavy lifting) to remove seats. We'll probably remove one seat most of the time, such that we have more space for stuff.

              89th8 Offline
              89th8 Offline
              89th
              wrote on last edited by
              #24

              @klaus said in New car:

              Bought it today.

              @taiwan_girl the seats can be flipped in either direction. Everything is mounted on rails. It's also very simple (but requires some heavy lifting) to remove seats. We'll probably remove one seat most of the time, such that we have more space for stuff.

              Bowchickawowwow

              1 Reply Last reply
              • brendaB Offline
                brendaB Offline
                brenda
                wrote on last edited by brenda
                #25

                Klaus, I forgot to mention that I had a nice chat with your in-laws and told them about your extended family trips. Your mother-in-law and I really hit it off. She's liking the recipes I gave her for treats to bake as travel snacks to eat in your new car.

                She and your father-in-law are really excited to travel together with you. Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                KlausK George KG L 3 Replies Last reply
                • brendaB brenda

                  Klaus, I forgot to mention that I had a nice chat with your in-laws and told them about your extended family trips. Your mother-in-law and I really hit it off. She's liking the recipes I gave her for treats to bake as travel snacks to eat in your new car.

                  She and your father-in-law are really excited to travel together with you. Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                  KlausK Offline
                  KlausK Offline
                  Klaus
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #26

                  @brenda http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • brendaB brenda

                    Klaus, I forgot to mention that I had a nice chat with your in-laws and told them about your extended family trips. Your mother-in-law and I really hit it off. She's liking the recipes I gave her for treats to bake as travel snacks to eat in your new car.

                    She and your father-in-law are really excited to travel together with you. Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                    George KG Offline
                    George KG Offline
                    George K
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #27

                    @brenda said in New car:

                    Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                    alt text

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

                    KlausK 1 Reply Last reply
                    • George KG George K

                      @brenda said in New car:

                      Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                      alt text

                      KlausK Offline
                      KlausK Offline
                      Klaus
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #28

                      @george-k Is that the mother-in-law under the blanket?

                      George KG 1 Reply Last reply
                      • brendaB brenda

                        Klaus, I forgot to mention that I had a nice chat with your in-laws and told them about your extended family trips. Your mother-in-law and I really hit it off. She's liking the recipes I gave her for treats to bake as travel snacks to eat in your new car.

                        She and your father-in-law are really excited to travel together with you. Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                        L Offline
                        L Offline
                        Loki
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #29

                        @brenda said in New car:

                        Klaus, I forgot to mention that I had a nice chat with your in-laws and told them about your extended family trips. Yoir mother-in-law and I really hit it off. She's liking the recipes I gave her for treats to bake as travel snacks to eat in your new car.

                        She and your father-in-law are really excited to travel together with you. Maybe you should see about a luggage rack for the roof of your new vehicle.

                        🤣

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        • KlausK Klaus

                          @george-k Is that the mother-in-law under the blanket?

                          George KG Offline
                          George KG Offline
                          George K
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #30

                          @klaus said in New car:

                          @george-k Is that the mother-in-law under the blanket?

                          Yes. It's from "National Lampoon's Vacation," a movie from the late 1980s when Chevy Chase was still funny.

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          Reply
                          • Reply as topic
                          Log in to reply
                          • Oldest to Newest
                          • Newest to Oldest
                          • Most Votes


                          • Login

                          • Don't have an account? Register

                          • Login or register to search.
                          • First post
                            Last post
                          0
                          • Categories
                          • Recent
                          • Tags
                          • Popular
                          • Users
                          • Groups