POLL: Name a roomy, comfy, classy and elegant

Lincoln Town Car. 1991-2011

 

For plenty of room, I'd much prefer a contemporary Audi S6 wagon or a Mercedes-Benz E-series wagon (such as the AMG E 63). Perhaps even one of the mid-sized crossover/SUVs (such as the new Volvo XC40 or XC60). Plenty of room, great performance, tolerable mileage, fairly good build quality. Trouble is, with the contemporary stuff, most cars are made with lighter, faux materials in many areas that simply aren't up to the long-term task.

Saw an Audi e-Tron SUV the other day. Elegant, roomy. Can't speak to the interior/accessories build quality, as I only had a quick peek inside. Beautiful contemporary car, far less expensive than many of the "custom" lux cars on the market these days.

For a sporty sedan that's in that same genre (great room, comfy, classy, elegant)? Perhaps, oh, a Bentley Continental GT coupe. Saw one the other day. Stunning. For even more room, the sedan variant. Big, and a gas hog. But pretty darned elegant. Very much less of the "faux" gear on such cars.

For a "run-of-the-mill" affordable car in the category? An Audi A6 or A8 sedan, or (if more room is needed) the wagon variant. In the "L" (lux) variant, for even more quality and ameneties. In the S or RS flavor, for more performance. Pretty darned good quality, in this "second-tier" (more-affordable) type of lux car.


Bentley Continental GT:


Audi A8L:


Mercedes-Benz AMG E63 wagon:


Audi e-Tron SUV:



For even more "room" ... allowing a person to experience the whole thing: a decently-comfortable, high build-quality bike. Say, an all-steel Kona Rove. Or a custom-built, all-steel, light-touring bike from R&E Cycles:

Kona Rove LTD:


R&E Cycles' Rodriguez Adventure:

 

Chevy wagon

 

G66, yeah those are all fun comfy cars but I don't know anyone that would let a dog in any of them!
Well, maybe the guys 19 year old mistress with the stupid purse dog would do it but if it was me and I caught her with a dog in the car I'd kick her sorry *** to the curb!
If I could afford a car like that, I'd have another squeeze within the hour.

 

I had a Pontiac Parisienne station wagon that came with a company I bought. It was around a 1984-86 model. I don't really remember it was such a forgettable pos.

 

The only place a large dog belongs in a vehicle is in the bed of a pickup.

 

Around 1975 or so I was painting and hanging wallpaper out of a Pinto station wagon. I also had a 71 Cutlass Supreme as a weekend ride. A buddy of mine, Mucky had one of these, a 72 Town Car. We always thought he had a little pimp in him. Anyway a painter can wind up with a pocket full of money at times so we would load up Mucky's Town Car with clothes, pot, pills, beer, our golf clubs and head for the Gulf Coast. We'd get cheap rooms in some seedy dive and head out looking for suckers and pigeons at various golf courses around Pensacola, Ft. Walton or Destin. We'd try to look scraggly and after all long haired hippies can't play, though we could play our azzes off and sometimes we'd even win some cash. Nights were spent on the other side of Pluto, every now or then we'd get lucky if we found some hippy gals and pumped enough euphoria through them. We had a ball till the money or drugs ran out, then it was back to Memphis and back to work. Good times. Anyway the Town Car was huge, and that big 460 was great on the highway. Gas hog, no doubt, but all part of the fun. Amazing what you could get in it. My golfing buddies and I would head out to the Gulf for many more years in my Cutlass, Volkswagens busses, a Mazda pick up, a mid 80s Chevy van, an 80s Pontiac Bonneville but the most hell was raised during the runs in Mucky's Town Car. Eventually we all grow up.

 

That 57 was big enough for 3 kids mom & dad & the dog ....... & it had power windows & of all things AC
Funny what a kid remembers .

 

When I was18 I had a dachshund beagle mix that I zipped in my jacket and went on motorcycle rides. Even had a little set of glasses. Wish I had a picture.

 

Kia Rio?

 

New car Cadillac Escalade.
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When I was a kid, one of the cars we had was a (probably '58) Pontiac Super Chief station wagon. The four kids could play in the back and never disturb Mom and Dad in the front. (It was long before the days of seat belts) That vehicle was like an ocean liner!

My father, who had no problem with driving ****faced drunk, took that old Indian to it's final resting place when, in the wee hours of the morning, he hit a grown cow at about 80 mph. It woke a nearby family who said it sounded like a dynamite explosion. The azz of the cow came through the windshield and painted the entire inside of the car with cow ****, including dear old dad. Pops, being drunk and limber, crawled out, and with a broken jaw, walked the final few miles home and came in stinking and singing. He never had the jaw attended to, and it changed his looks, something I never quite got used to.

When the sheriff investigated the wreck, my pop had not been driving and no one owned the cow!

So, yea, the Super Chief would do for a family with a large dog.

 

Are you looking for an American dog owner, or an American car?

 

Westphalia!

Roomy ✓ comfy ✓ elegant, about as elegant as a hippo at the ballet. Classy, only if everybody else was in a Pinto.
Ex #2 and I travelled for almost 2 years in the 78 VW Westphalia with 3 dogs and 2 white cats.
A pure black shepard, a chow, and a border collie mix.
The shepard was just a big hug muffin but she had a mean bark. The other 2 were pretty fiesty. Nobody screwed with us.
I put a small U bolt on every corner of the bumpers and got 20' of chain for each dog so we could put them out and they'd still have enough lead to be happy.

 

a 1960's Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon, with those "look out" windows in the roof..

had a cousin that had one, and it was awesome.