Posts Tagged ‘benz’
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
See this trendy Smart Car parked all perpendicularly to the curb in San Francisco’s Western Addition / NOPA area? Well don’t be surprised if you see it and others like it get cited for illegal parking.
That’s right, what’s encouraged in Paris, France will get you a citation in the 415.
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Cf. Or this way, don’t park this way.
The gritty nitty:
CA Vehicle Code: 22502. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb…
So don’t be surprised when a DPT SFMTA PCO KO’s U ASAP.
TTFN.
Tags: 22502, benz, ca, california, car, citation, code, cvc, dmv, dpr, illegal, Mercedes, meter maid, parallel, parking, pco, perpendicular, SFMTA, smart, smart ca, ticket, vehicle
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Boy, it was touch and go for a few years there, but news comes today that our beloved NIMBYs have managed to preserve the Great Northern Parking Lot of San Francisco.
See it? 700 spaces, free of charge. It’s historic, you know. When the U.S. Army wasn’t out there killing a million or so Filipinos it managed to create the GNPLoSF. Therefore, these parking spaces are sacrosanct:
Now that that pesky modern art has been gotten rid of, a question remains over what to do with the upper end of the Main Post. You know the Burger King corporation had an outlet that served as an Army Mess on the Presidio for so many years, it would be only fitting to give it the right of first refusal to get a chance to replace the famous itty bitty bowling alley that’s up there now.
An artist’s conception, avec just one installation of evil modern art thrown in to see if the NIMBYs can tolerate it.
You see, that old, historic Presidio BK was a place “where a simple guy serving his country could get an inexpensive meal with a stunning view.” Wouldn’t it be nice to honor those memories with the biggest Burger King in the world? Put it right where the museum was supposed to go.
Either that, or a Jollibee. Your choice.
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Whether or not you get a ticket for parking the rear of your Mercedesin traffic on Gough Street, you probably shouldn’t do it anyway.
Did the driver even try here?
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Doesn’t look that way.
Tags: 18, benz, california, code, curb, cvc, Examiner, free, gough, inches, Mercedes, newspaper, park, parking, San Francisco, san fransico, street, tires, vehicle, Vehicle Code, Wheels, xam, xams
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Valencia Street in the Mission used to have two lanes in both directions, but now it has Category II bike lanes and a center lane that’s supposed to be used for turns. The problem is that drivers view the turning lane as a 13-foot-wide, mile-and-half-long parking lot.
As here, where the driver of this black $100,000 Mercedes Benz Geländewagen is backing up the northbound lane to claim the prize he just passed by. Was the MUNI bus delayed by this maneuver of the G-Wagon? A little, but Parking Wherever The Hell You Want is Your Right as a San Franciscan, right?
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Do people get tickets for this? People do.
Occasionally.
Tags: benz, bus, citation, district, g-class, g-classe, g-wagen, g-wagon, Geländewagen, Mercedes, mission, mission district, mta, Muni, parallel, park, parkin, SFMTA, ticket, valencia
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
As promised, the Presidio Trust Main Post Planning Transportation Workshop went off on April 22, 2009. Look here later on to see when and if two more similar meetings will occur in the very merry month of May. (The first should deal with historic resources and the other is slated to be a kind of catch-all open-mike night.)
122 souls sat through a presentation of answers to a dozen key questions that people have been asking about concerning transportation – signalization, fees for parking, traffic loads, etc. I vowed to leave as soon as the public speakers veered off-topic – that took about ten seconds, so oh well. Regardless, this appeared to be a more-productive-than-average public yammer session. Assemblymember Tom Ammiano sent a representative (the well-informed Noriko Shinzato) as did Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, so it appears that interest in the plans for the Main Post remains strong.
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Fully eleven Mercedes-Benzeses were out front, or in the lot up the hill, or in the overflow lot even further up the hill near the chapel. BMW was also well-repped, and there were a least three Porsches, including two expensive Porsche Cayenne minivans and one hepped-up Neunelfer.A richer group of parking-hungry NIMBYs would be hard to find. One bicycle.
All this Powerpoint stuff should be online in the near future, or maybe it already is.
Presidi-Go is already up to 300,000 trips per year.
Should the NIMBY’s, the people of means, be given more votes on this matter than tourists from Tempe? Only Time Will Tell.
So there you have it, To Be Continued.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Well look at this rare sight on the streets of San Francisco, or anywhere else for that matter – it’s a brand spanking new Maybach sedan from Mercedes Benz. Just five cars from this brand were sold in America for the whole month of February 2009. Ouch.
That means that Maybach dealerships in America are on a pace that will have them selling less than two cars each in calendar 2009. Ouch, again.
On Presidio Boulevard. Click to expand.
Of course that’s much worse than what Audi dealers faced during their bad time in the 1980’s after 60 Minutes embarrassed itself with the unintended acceleration fiasco. Back then each Audi store sold about one car per month. Ah memories…
“Apparently, the brakes were failing at exactly the same moment that the gas pedal decided it had a mind of its own. Perfectly plausible, at least to the 60 Minutes crew.”
It turned out that drivers were pressing the go pedal instead of the slow pedal. And there were reasons for that, and the cars had other issues as well, but 60 Minutes really pulled a boner on that one. Oh well. Anywho, Audi considered leaving the American market, things were so bad.
But what about Maybach? How much longer can it go on?
Chin up, Maybach. It can’t get worse than this.
Right?
Tags: 57s, 62, 62s, benz, landaulet, Maybach, Mercedes, sales, San Francisco
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
The reason why utilitarian Mercedes Benz work trucks generally aren’t sold in the United States has to do with preserving a luxury image for the American market. As you can see, there’s nothing really luxurious about this Sprinter 313 CDI from Foster City’s Image Tours and Travel that was recently spied on the streets of San Francisco The existence of this panel van mars the experience of those Americans who paid big bucks for a three pointed star car, non?
People who like this kind of tall-boy panel van (like Francis Ford Coppola when he’s making movies these days) usually can only get this model in America with a Freightliner or Dodge nameplate. Oh well.
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Mercedes had the taxi market locked up in some European countries until quality issues caused a drop in market share. Oh well.
Enjoy your ride, if you get a chance to experience the biggest Mercedes in the Bay Area…
Tags: 313, benz, cdi, district, image, luxury, Mercedes, quality, richmond, San Francisco, sprinter, taxi
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Things were bad for the Maybach brand “bach” in the day, back when there was talk of shutting the whole operation down and Mercedes reduced the number of American dealerships down to 42 or so (with a huge loss for all concerned). But now, news comes that those 42 “studios” (it’s not just a car but a work of art, get it?) had sales of just nine new cars for all of America last month.
What’s that, you ain’t never saw a Maybach? Well take a look, even the short one is huge. Of course the long one is bigger still, but Scottish crooner Rod Stewart can’t fit three passengers in his without all sorts of trouble. (If only his “Relationship Manager” could have contacted the “Center of Excellence“!)
An esteemed Gumball Rally driver in his Mb right in front of the esteemed (yet inconceivably gloomy) Pacific Union Club earlier this year. Perhaps he’s a member?
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The way things are going, there won’t be a new generation of Maybach to come out so the whole shebang is going to fizzle out in a short while unless another bailout is in the offing. That’s unlikely, so drunk Beyonce (she of halo halo halo) will have to find a new place to hide out from the paparazzi, and Maybach Babe 2 will have to find a new backdrop:
via autobloq.nl
Of course, you can always turn to eBay to get an Exelero model, sort of.
See you in Hell, Maybach!
Tags: 57s, 62, 62s, babe, benz, beyonce, exelero, landaulet, Maybach, Mercedes, San Francisco
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Here’s what you’ll see tooling around San Francisco’s Mission District these days - an aging Mercedes Benz 300 SD sedan that’s been converted by Oakland’s Veg Rev to run on vegetable oil in a process called “vehicle fuel reassignment.”
So instead of inky diesel soot covering the back of this OM617 W126, we see vegetable oil. See the conversion process courtesy of this nifty video. (But just ignore a laughable MTV-style intro from the abysmal Current TV network.) The car shown can’t accelerate quickly, but in many ways is superior to (and costs about $115,000 less than) the quick, all-electric Tesla Roadster.
Of course the best way to spread the word about veggie power is to fashion a bumper sticker to make Toyota Prius owners feel bad:
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“YOUR NEW HYBRID USES GAS – HA!”
From Teh Mission with love…
Tags: 2CHJ531, 300, 300sd, benz, california, conversion, diesel, gas, gasoline, ha, hybrid, Mercedes, Oakland, oil, San Francisco, sd, veg rev, vegetable, Your New Hybrid Uses Gas, Your New Hybrid Uses Gas - Ha
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The perfect accessory for your Pagoda-roof SL W113 Mercedes Benz on the streets of San Francisco is a dog
Tags: 230sl, 250sl, 280sl, benz, california, convertible, dog, Embarcadero, Mercedes, pagoda, red, roof, San Francisco, sl, w113
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