Feel free to apply whatever's written in this driver profile to owners of current-generation Audi A4s and Mercedes-Benz C-Class cars. Because there's really no difference between their buyers and their corresponding lifestyles.
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Forgotten Features: Vertical Speedometers
We like how thermometers work. I'm of course referring to your basic mercury thermometer, which goes up or down depending on how hot the temperature is. If you were thinking the digital one, I guess you belong in the 1980s, and shouldn't deserve an exquisite specimen of the car I am now going to discuss.
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Beautiful, But Horrible: 2003-2005 Mercedes-Benz W211 E-Class
We all have our guilty pleasures. Mine used to be watching How I Met Your Mother, until I got to season seven and decided it was taking way too long to find out who the hell the mother was. Seriously, I think after seven years, anyone would settle for someone and learn to love them later. This, I believe, is the same reasoning as to why the Toyota Camry tops the sales charts. It's buyers will buy it because of the reviews and reputation, live with it for seven years, and then say it's the best car in the world and they love it because there's no reason to have it for seven years.
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Driver Profile: Mercedes-Benz G500
Yes, the G-Wagen has been sold in America for over ten years by now. In fact, it's been sold around the world since 1979. But I'm focusing on the G500, since it is now the cheapest way you can get into a G-Wagen (unless you find an older grey-imported one) from the 1980s or early 1990s. And even then, those can't be cabriolets, since those still command high prices. Let's see what kind of drivers (other than anybody with the last name Kardashian) that G500s attract.
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