I bought one of the best cars in the world

is there any way you can send it back because it's really not a good idea as you accumulate cars and survey your fleet rather than marveling at all the great things you can do in your cars you tend to actually notice what you don't have a car for and a couple months ago I was doing that and I realized you know I don't really have a car that's comfortable and useful and reliable that doesn't have a trunk full of gas tanks that my wife could drive even though I've never been able to teach her to drive a stick more than the distance it travels as it stalls and not have to worry about which error lights are anticipated and acceptable and which ones you do need to be sensitive to and one that doesn't constitute if I take my four-year-old son in its car seat with me strapping him to a gasoline bomb a car that has functional airbags these are the things I did not have and so I thought I probably do need to get a car that's just useful and when you think about that you think I want to get the best car in the world of course there is an empirical way to go out and do that you could look at a reputable journalistic source like Car and Driver and go look at their 10 best cars of the year and after you exclude any of the manufacturers that have advertised with them in the last 12 months the cars you're left with will probably be great or you could go to reputable sources of information like Consumer Reports but obviously I had no interest in any of that because by my own approximation at any moment there are five best cars made obviously kind of by class and my advice is wrong false utter nonsense and you shouldn't believe anything I say but it's how I make decisions and so the first is that whatever the latest and greatest v12 Lamborghini is I love my Murcielago I love the Aventador it'll always be the craziest most outrageous thing that you can buy without spending five times the money and the most fun you can have in a car the next is whatever Bugatti is making at the time because it will always represent the current epitome of what humanity can create in an automotive context it'll be what limitless resources and perfect execution mean and even though a Pagani or a Koenigsegg might seem better it's not that is as good as things can be the next is obviously a Range Rover and if you tell someone that you drive a Range Rover the thing that they'll immediately say is I've always heard those are terrible cars and you respond saying yes they are but I'm gonna keep buying them and I don't know why but I just love them in spite of themselves and even though it's always broken and every other one that I've had always breaks and I know my service adviser by his first name I just love it I love being in it feeling it smelling it everything about it it's just perfect I love a Range Rover the best 4x4 by far a Range Rover is really like the mitch hedberg escalator logic of cars the worst that can happen to an escalator is that it becomes stairs we're sorry for the convenience even though your Range Rover will constantly break down and make you hate it you still love it for what it really is deep inside so anything that can make you buy cars that way deserves to be the best car in the world the next is the cheapest manual Porsche 911 that you can go out and get to me that's always just as pure in best a sports car as you can go out and buy for the money always a lot of fun never the most inspired thing on earth but perfect in what it is and the final one and operative in this case is the biggest baddest AMG S Class that you can find I love s classes anybody you know that it loves Mercedes will always say that s-class is the greatest car in the world and obviously in any of these contexts I don't have any interesting going out and buying something new because my car gift has always been looking like someone who won the lottery 10 years ago went on a shopping spree and then never spent a dollar and so I was looking for an s-class I thought that would be perfect and so I called my good friend Clank who now works at mercedes-benz of Birmingham but he was the shop foreman at our BM North our North Atlanta Mercedes dealer here when we were preparing the CL for the Cannonball and I said hey I want to buy an s-class and I'm thinking you know one of these oh seven to 2010's 63 s or s 65 s and that's sort of like asking a relationship expert to help you find a mate but then telling them we're going to go to some central Florida Hooters and I'm gonna find the two oldest waitresses they have and they're gonna have the kind of mileage and previous damage that I'm willing to accept and then I want you to choose between those two people to be my next wife and so when you say something like that it comes with deep breaths and he says well send me what you're looking at so I sent him a no 7s 65 and a no 8's 63 choosing amongst options like that is like inviting someone to play Russian roulette but filling all the chambers but just proceeding with the general expectation that most of the time the gun won't work they said well our system doesn't really show any maintenance whatsoever on the sixty-three and they've got some real issues you know about so let's avoid that but this s65 actually has miles and miles of history and that's kind of the perfect test of your automotive optimism because a rational person would see all that and say it's consistently required tons and tons of very expensive very labor-intensive part replacements so it's probably gonna keep doing that right it's gonna cost a lot the automotive optimist on the other hand sees that says look at all these things that have already been done surely I have tens of thousands of miles of trouble-free motoring ahead so I said that sounds perfect let's look at it and he wasn't really giving it his blessing but he didn't say run away which to me says let's buy this car and it was listed for sale on OBE which is kind of a classified section of Manheim's auction platform and you tend to pay a little more than like dead trade wholesale but you kind of get in to think a little more about it and negotiate a little bit and I think they wanted 20 to 23 grand and I ended up paying of nineteen five for the car and you can sort of get a cursory inspection but it's really just kind of a pass/fail based on how they had described it and had about a hundred thousand miles and clean Carfax but Auto Check said it had frame damage at some point in the past probably because a way it was called at an auction several years ago but regardless you know any of the bumpers have been painted and it seemed like a pretty solid car but it had been sort of unaffectionate ly modified with gigantic 22 inch wheels and this big chrome grille with a gigantic star in it and so I was like all right you know I got some things to do but I went and picked it up at Mannheim Georgia and when I got there there was a battery box sitting right next to it and it was filthy exactly what you want to find fine hop in the car and magically it starts very unexpected but it was a little bit reluctant and it did obviously it had a tire pressure light on and a battery line on it you know just it was hurting a little bit and because of the size of the wheels soon when you took your foot off the brake it didn't even creep and when you did it made this ticking noise once per rotation it sounded like a caliper clip or something was often alright well pull over and look I and I couldn't see anything so obviously I wanted to return the car as closely as possible to the condition it had left the factory in 11 years prior and when I opened the hood I was really pleased to find that the motor had been assembled by Marco Weisgerber he was the same person who built the motor for my CL 55 Doug de Muro actually found him and got in touch with him and one of the articles that he had written for Jalopnik about our drive and so that was cool but I wanted to find a set of wheels in a grill so I looked on Facebook marketplace and started shrewdly negotiating with some sellers and I found a set of om factory wheels for the car and factory grille as well so I took the car to Butler Tire for a new set of Michelin 4s tires and when they took the wheels off they discovered the reason for my noise apparently when they'd installed these aftermarket 22 inch monstrosity they had put one of the wheel bolts in that was too long and so each time around that was impacting the internal parking brake mechanism and fortunately it hadn't done much damage I think they were only on for a few thousand miles and so that was alright but anytime you get a car like this it's a good idea to take it to an authorized dealer and let them look at it particularly in this cars case because it said it hadn't had any service in five hundred and thirty some-odd days and so I took it to our BM North and saw the service advisor I've known there for five or six years and I said hey you look just do a cursory a service look it over just no oil change and we'll kind of figure out where to go from there and about an hour later he comes over the customer waiting area and calls me into his office and something that's never ever happened to me in my history of buying cars happen that day he said it's actually a really nice car generally when I take a car like that to a Dior they they look at me very seriously and say is there any way you can send it back because it's really not a good idea for you to have this car it's not going to be a good one and he was just as shocked with that finding as I was and pretty much just said go out and enjoy it and so I had been until very recently because I called to add it to my insurance and I've been with Allstate ever since State Farm invited me not to have State Farm after I received the largest amid values settlement they'd ever paid out in the state of Georgia and all state at that time would insure exotic cars but a few years ago they like many car insurers decided they didn't want to insure cars that cost more than a hundred and fifty grand when they were new and this car would have been about 200 grand new even though now it was about ninety percent depreciated and I've been with them since before they had this policy and so I was sort of grandfathered in so when she said they won't let me add this car to your policy I said well what do you mean I mean it my Lamborghini was three hundred fifty grand new and it's on there yeah it's just getting harder and harder and so it appears now that I've got to go look for collector car insurance or some exotic car policy to have my 20 grand s-class but regardless I'm very excited about it it's nice to have a car that you can actually use comfortably and I do certainly believe that it is the greatest car in the world [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 9min 57sec (597 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 07 2018