Super-Luxury Cars in SR, Adapting present-day ones, that is... Options

[Foreigner]

Greetings.

I realize that there are already several super-luxury cars in SHADOWRUN--the Rolls-Royce Phaeton and Mitsubishi Nightsky, among others--but I was wondering:

Has anyone tried to adapt the Maybach (That's pronounced "My-BOCK" :))
57 and 62 sedans to the game?

For those of you who haven't hears of them, the Maybach sedans are a new limited-production car sold by a new branch of Mercedes-Benz, and named for the Maybach brand of cars sold in Germany from the 1920s through the 1940s.

Here are a couple of links:

Maybach ; and

BRABUS-- For the Maybach


As always, thanks for any input.

--Foreigner

[kevyn668]

Next time link directly to the pic. ;)

You can probably build 'em using R3.

[James McMurray]

Can't you just change the seating and maybe tweak the speed and acceleration ratings? And then say that the driver must call the trunk a boot or they lose collness points.

[Foreigner]

kevyn668:

Done. :)

James McMurray:

Actually, I considered that, but then I remembered that GMs don't award PCs Karma points for "coolness".

At least, I don't think that they do.... ;)

[Fortune]

Coolness points don't necessarily mean Karma Points.

But that being said, most GMs (in my experience) do award Karma for coolness. It's even suggested in canon that Karma be awarded for good ideas, or things said 'in game' that make the rest of the group laugh.

[Foreigner]

Fortune:

I stand corrected. :)

(Or I would, except that I'm currently sitting in a chair at my computer desk as I type this.... :P )

I should've realized that because Sahandrian awarded me a Karma point for in-game and out-of-game humor at the end of my first 'run with his group.

(Hey, I'm at least good for a few laughs, if for nothing else. ;))

--Foreigner

[MYST1C]

[Austere Emancipa...]

In IPA /'maIbax/. The fricative h in the end is probably better known to English speakers as the sound in the end of "loch" as in "Loch Ness".

[Foreigner]

M :nuyen: $TIC, Austere Emancipator:

My mistake. :(

M :nuyen: $TIC: Please excuse the error on your name/alias. My computer apparently has difficulty with certain symbols.

Apparently, the online review that I read about the vehicles was in error.

A.E.: How is one supposed to pronounce it? Sorry if I sound like a complete drekhead, but I never did understand all that stuff about frickatives and such. Would you mind explaining it in terms that I can understand? :P

Besides, apart from one or two curses, the only German that I know is:

Ich bin Amerikaner. Sprechen sie Englisch?

(I'm not certain, because I read it in a comic book (D.C.'s METAL MEN, Volume 1, Issue #49, January, 1977, to be exact) almost thirty years ago, but I believe that that translates to "I am an American. Do you speak English?")

--Foreigner

[Moon-Hawk]

Foreigner, wouldn't that same phrase spoken in english give the both of you the same information? If he says 'yes', then you know. If he stares at you blankly and shrugs, then you know.
With the German you run the risk of mangling the pronounciation so bad that they don't understand what you're asking either way.

[Demosthenes]

[Tarantula]

While true Moon-hawk, then the german will know you don't speak german, and possibly try another language, or shrug and walk away.

[Foreigner]

Moon-Hawk:

You're probably right. :)

I wouldn't know for certain, though, because I've never actually used it... . :)

Frankly, I don't want to come off like President John F. Kennedy did in his speech at The Berlin Wall, in which he said:

Ich bin ein Berliner.

My understanding is that he meant to say Ich bin Berliner ("I am a citizen of Berlin"), but owing to a mistranslation by his speechwriters (or something of the sort), what he actually said translates into English as "I am a jelly doughnut."

From what I've read about it, his-- apparently unintentional-- error was overlooked by most of the German citizens and/or non-Germans who also spoke the language, because everyone was too caught up in the emotions of the moment.

(It was before I was born, but I've seen the tape many times.)

Demosthenes:

Regarding your first post on the subject:

Thanks. :)

Regarding your second:

How true. :)

--Foreigner

[Demosthenes]

In which he said he was a donut... :D

[RangerJoe]

My lord.... that site... so much flash... makes the brain hurt.

That being said, nice wheels. Most of the features should be replicable using R3.

[Demosthenes]

Hell, they'll probably still be trying to sell the current production run in the 2060s...
It's big, it's luxury...but for some reason, it doesn't sell all that well.

Strange, that. 8)

[Austere Emancipa...]

[Demosthenes]

I believe Maybach have an image problem - there are cooler cars you can buy for the money. Like a nice Rolls Royce, for example. Or a McLaren Mercedes SLR...

And I think the price gets a lot higher when you start adding on the little optional extras...