The result is a small car with impressive cabin tranquillity, a car able to keep the whirring of the 18-inch tires and sounds of minor engine trauma well out of the cabin.
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The cabin trim on our test car was an exquisite claret-colored Nappa top grain leather, set off with alloy and lacquer-black wood trim.
The large dials of the otherwise smooth center console seem pulled from old Lincoln radios, and the smooth slope from the brushed aluminum console down to the rear of the cabin are unabashedly American-car design cues that have long since disappeared.
The sports car look of the cabin is almost entirely achieved by the seats, but that feel is so reinforced by the firmer ride, the rasp of the exhaust and the quick reflexes of the engine and suspension that you can't help but think you're really in a posh rocket sled.
Aluminum, being less dense than steel, has greater sound radiation, and yet the alloy-bodied SL summons a lush, refined quiet in the cabin to rival a fixed-roof car.
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They arrived with a car full of provisions but found their cliffside cabin so stylish and well stocked that they invited friends over and prepared a dinner for eight, complete with wine, tablecloth and silverware (all provided).
The small robot inside the cabin makes for a "very intimate relationship between driver and car, " he says.
The chassis feels hammer-hard and stout, paying dividends in the kind of cabin ambience you might expect in a larger and more expensive car.
That engine and transmission remind you that response, handling, motor and cabin are all canted toward the extreme end of the GT car spectrum.
Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.
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Know that it's also the largest car by far, with the most shoulder, backseat and overall cabin capacity, making it darned near the best highway cruiser this side of an S-Class (and for a good 20 grand less).
Dorner and the wardens exchanged gunfire before Dorner crashed his car, carjacked Heltebrake's truck and drove it to the nearby cabin.
Chris Roddy, a musician and electrician who was living in a 100-year-old cabin that burned to the ground, said he was left with his three dogs and a car.
She admits she is no Thoreau scholar and her large home, complete with a three-car garage, is in part of Walden Woods, just like Thoreau's famous cabin was.
When owners arrived to clean the building, Dorner tied them up and fled in their car, killing a sheriff's deputy in a shootout and then barricading himself in the remote cabin.
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