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Directedby
12-05-2002, 10:34 PM
I really like the Marauder and will be buying one when my lease runs out on my Tahoe.

However, I wonder what age range this car appeals to.

On another Marauder website, all the owners but one are men.

I don't mean to be nosey or rude or insensative, but some of the people that I poll think the Marauder looks like an old mans car.

Personally I don't care what other people think but I am curious who you all are.

RCSignals
12-05-2002, 11:01 PM
If you search back you'll find a thread on this very topic. As I recall Marauder owners here range in age from 19 to the 60's. It a very wide demographic.

SergntMac
12-06-2002, 04:11 AM
"I don't mean to be nosey or rude or insensative, but some of the people that I poll think the Marauder looks like an old mans car."

That's the beauty in a MM, those who know what it is, have respect. Those who don't, learn.

Murader03
12-06-2002, 05:02 AM
Originally posted by SergntMac
"I don't mean to be nosey or rude or insensative, but some of the people that I poll think the Marauder looks like an old mans car."

That's the beauty in a MM, those who know what it is, have respect. Those who don't, learn.

Truer words were never written !:D

Geo
12-06-2002, 05:03 AM
The bottom line is everything is about sex appeal. It all depends who you wish your core audience to be. There are women who like a man to be a man, and the last time I checked... I was a man, so why not be a man all the way. Drive a machine and forget the toys.

The next time somebody says it's an old man's car, ask them why they don't drive a car that was built to HD spec for HD driving and designed to fishtail from the factory. And it takes a man to control all that hardware.

Does any one have street-flushers hose down intersection corners in the summer time? This is how I practiced learning how to fishtail when I was 18 in my 78 Malibu (no-posi, I would downshift into 1st with my shift kit and create a lock scenario during the corner....).

If any policeman are listening, too bad, I was a Criminology student years ago and I know all you guys drove the same way too ( as you still do, legally ).

And for any female cool enough to drive one of these, well knowledge is power, I'll just consider you a Bond Girl.

One important thing to remember is if the car is well received in Los Angeles, then this is all one needs to know. It is true that design teams from car companies (even from Germany) come to L.A. and watch what kind of cars cruise up to the better nightclubs and they take notes. Then they go back to the drawing board and design cool cars.

GEO

LCpl Retired
12-06-2002, 08:36 AM
I actually plan on this as "the wifes" car. I got her a Town Car last year after many years of driving S Class Mercedes (V8 only). For years I would buy 2 or 3 year old Mercedes in impeccable garaged condition from the original owners and drive them hard for two to three more years with no issues. Those days are gone, as the (decent) S classes now are $40k OUT of warranty and todays component replacement repair process can be staggering, costwise. The older ones are now all collectors items or ghetto sleds. Neither suits me at the moment.

Barring the jokes the salesmen made about us being the youngest town car buyers he had had...The Lincoln is great, (Consumer Reports almost all red circles, except for depreciation which is solid Black -perfect!), but she is complaining that it is boring, slow and won't corner like all the big Mercedes she got used to (my fault I guess..). I had been seeing the resurgence of the marauder mentioned in a few of the car magazines, so as sort of a joke I took her to drive it. This would be a compromise car (big enough for me and uhh..sporty like the Z4 she wanted (my exact quote to her!)). AND a good value.

Suprise..She loved it, and ..more so ..so did I. What a nice well balanced powerful machine, almost like my old 300SEL 6.3..well close anyhow...(maybe slower off the line but less nose heavy pushing it in the corners)...My only holdback is I DO NOT want another black car, and will get the 1st Silver one available (with heated seats ...her only request (good wife huh?)

I will do the reinhart chip, stat and plugs, spoiler and a little tint and leave it just as it is. maybe see about getting the wheels body color...and if everyone at work doesn't understand why we didn't get a BMW...well, maybe then they just Don't Understand....

and yes, I will set it up with the class III (all but invisible on the lincoln with the hitch removed) and tow the airstream with it ....another reason to wait for silver....

anybody have an idea when it will be able to be ordered?

Fourth Horseman
12-06-2002, 10:08 AM
Originally posted by Directedby
I don't mean to be nosey or rude or insensative, but some of the people that I poll think the Marauder looks like an old mans car.

Personally I don't care what other people think but I am curious who you all are.

Quite honestly, part of what I like about the Marauder is that some people don't understand it. Those are not the people I'm interested in appealing to.

The people who do get it, though, think it's extremely cool.

smith5365
12-06-2002, 10:35 AM
Well, I'm an old guy driving an "upgraded" '89 GM, and looking forward to getting a Silver Marauder this spring because I think its' a young guy's car. Go figure that one out. All of us 6' plus and over 200 lb guys know what a good car is and where to get it. You just have to "build 'em up a little" (maybe a lot for the '89). Don't ever let anyone tell you its an old man's car just because a lot of us gray heads know a good thing when it comes around. Us old guys have been through enough cars to know what the best all around cars should be, AND WE BUY MARAUDERS (or build one to be a clone!).

Bill Smith

LincMercLover
12-06-2002, 11:47 AM
Hey, I'll be 18 here soon. Everyone at my school LOVES it! Since it's been in the shop, EVERYONE had been asking me, "Where's the black beast?" I agree with everyone when they say those who understand it are the people I like to associate with. Those who don't will at least learn to respect it after a QUICK lesson... :D

Beadhead
12-06-2002, 07:54 PM
Well, I may be going on 50, but I also have a 99 SVT Cobra vert AND a 93 Celica Turbo 4WD (winter car) in the garage. I didn't purchase the MM 'cause it was/wasnt cool -- I need a fast, decent handling, large car with a larger trunk for driving vacations and the MM fits that bill better than anything else on the road. If it fits your needs, buy it!

hrtn_monky
12-06-2002, 08:40 PM
Well, don't know about the rest here, but I only worry about appealing to myself. If other people dig it great. I agree that most people don't get it, and consider it a "old mans car". I just tell them, wait til you hit 40! That being said, nothing is better than a big, comfortable, well handling, quick car.

Moparzz
12-06-2002, 09:06 PM
I've had many hot little 2 doors but I need to have a 4 door car now. I will repeat what someone said in a previous similar thread "this is what a Mustang becomes once its all grown up".;)

RCSignals
12-07-2002, 01:56 AM
LCpl Retired that was a great post! You should send a copy of that in letter form to every magazine that has slammed the Marauder!