Your favourite highway car - no restrictions

[flipstah]

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Acura TL is a sweet choice.

You mean RL

[Darkane]

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You mean RL

Same same

[G-ZUS]

Mercedes W124 e500

[Gman.45]

+1 regarding the Acuras, friend of mine who owns/runs the nearby gas/convenience store has one of the new Acura TLX type S, black car I actually like in black, and I've only been in it once, but it'd be a great highway car, and not a very common one either, which = good times.

LC500 is a fantastic highway (and anywhere) car. Opening the windows on the slow zones on the highway, hearing that exhaust sound in the 80km/h zones when it opens back up to 110 or whatever - makes me want to sing along with it yelling out the window. Everything about the car is great for tearing up the kms. Comfort/ride, stereo, exhaust when stereo is off...only car I think I'd replace it with is perhaps a new IS 500 with the same V8, or maybe a similar Merc/BMW of which I have no experience with.

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Vw GTI. German engineering das auto !!

[Neil4Speed]

My old SC400 (98 with the updated motor) was a fantastic highway cruiser... Very driver focused interior/cockpit like. It also had the uncanny ability to have no wind buffeting sound with both windows down at speed... thought that was neat.

[Team_Mclaren]

I dont really understand why people want an old car as a highway cruiser. All the new techs in new cars make the drive so much more enjoyable. And I'm not talking about any self driving ability, just all the creature comfort features.

[AndyL]

There's a '20 Cadillac CT5 on truro I've rented a time or 3... Not the -V or blackwing; just the unloaded version. It's a nice ride highway ride.

[Hallowed_point]

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Had a 2010 TL SH-AWD manual that ate up highway miles.

It was ultra comfy, 305hp, and 8L/100 6th gear cruising. Miss that car

Still loving mine, 266,000 kms on my 13 TL SH AWD 6mt now. Amazing highway car.

Quick, and can attest to 8.0L/100 or better on highway.

I call it the "Subaru WRX for Adults"

Fantastic leather seats, amazing ELS stereo, very little wind noise, and winding out the J37 V6 to 6800 rpm never gets old. SH AWD makes winter a blast.

The only crappy thing about the J37 in the TL SH AWD is moderate oil consumption with the factory spec 5w20 and aggressive driving. Much better on 5w30 synthetic and quieter too.

Also oem dual mass flywheel and clutch replacement cost me $5000.00 at Silverhill Acura @ 230 k

[bjstare]

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I dont really understand why people want an old car as a highway cruiser. All the new techs in new cars make the drive so much more enjoyable. And I'm not talking about any self driving ability, just all the creature comfort features.

Ya that's been a funny aspect to this thread. Favorite highway car - no restrictions - in come the recommendations for cars from 3 decades ago and pickup trucks.

A no restrictions best highway car would be a new luxury barge of some type, the best option arguably being an S-class. I'd also second the LC500 recommendation, that thing has the best seats I've ever sat in and can just eat up the miles.

[ExtraSlow]

I mean, the "no restrictions" part means you can feel free to be quirky or cheap or whatever. I think choosing a 500k brand new bentley shows a lack of imagnination, although they are probably amazing.

[bjstare]

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I mean, the "no restrictions" part means you can feel free to be quirky or cheap or whatever. I think choosing a 500k brand new bentley shows a lack of imagnination, although they are probably amazing.

Is the goal to find the best highway car or the most unique but adequate highway car?

Pick a lane.

edit: Just re-read the OP. Sounds like it's the latter. I'll see myself out.

[flipstah]

Is a GL550 adequate?

[ExtraSlow]

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Is the goal to find the best highway car or the most unique but adequate highway car?

Pick a lane.

edit: Just re-read the OP. Sounds like it's the latter. I'll see myself out.

Its okay bro, I still love you.

[Buster]

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500k brand new bentley

No Volkswagens allowed

[ExtraSlow]

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Is a GL550 adequate?

I don’t enjoy driving SUVs on the highway. They’re alright as a passenger tho.

[Misterman]

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I don’t enjoy driving SUVs on the highway. They’re alright as a passenger tho.

I love my GLE on the highway. Put it in Sport mode through the mountains and it hugs great. But yeah, preference wise if I could choose any somewhat reasonable favorite, it would probably be something like an E63 or Charger Hellcat.

[vengie]

*disclaimer* the Dad in me is coming out.

Updating my choice for my current situation.
Our Sienna Limited has been an absolutely awesome vehicle to drive on the highway with the kids.
Comfortable, AWD, planted, smooth and 300+hp while the kids are watching a movie with their wireless headsets.

[Hallowed_point]

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I love my GLE on the highway. Put it in Sport mode through the mountains and it hugs great. But yeah, preference wise if I could choose any somewhat reasonable favorite, it would probably be something like an E63 or Charger Hellcat.

I guess there is different ways of interpreting or answering the OP's question. I would think we are factoring in things like fuel economy as on a long highway drive, there may be extended kms with no fuel stations or 87 octane only etc. Plus the wasted time filling up or waiting to fill.

I rented a 2022 Dodge Challenger RT in Florida, and it really impressed me on the highway in every category except fuel economy (shocking.) Averaged 17 L/100 on 87 octane and got a best of 14 L/100 driving like a Florida retiree. That put the HEMI Challenger firmly on my nope list as a highway car as it was just ridiculously bad on gas for a new vehicle.

The Challenger did check off a lot of other boxes such as the massive full sized trunk and powerful trunk shocks, real back seats with headroom for adult sized adults, comfortable sporty ride, quiet exhaust on regular mode, confident brakes and handling, excellent factory lights.