Most comfortable vehicle (on the cheap)

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Recently I have had some back issues flare up, and as a result neither the XJ nor the 2nd Gen Ram 2500 are comfortable to ride in, let alone drive. I am thinking I need a new daily....thinking about an old lady buick or lincoln special (i.e. low mileage, well taken care of, but zero resale value).

What is the most comfortable vehicle that you have personally spent a long time behind the wheel of? Is the Ford Panther platform any good comfort wise? I would prefer RWD, but I need something that rides like a cadillac with a lazy boy for a drivers seat....without it actually being a cadillac (no northstar motors for me again).
 
Early 90's Cadillac Fleetwood. Rear wheel drive and LT1 motor. I've been wanting one of them for 15 years.

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Jody Treadway said:
Late 90s-mid 2000s Ford/Merc/Lincoln full size sedan.
Cheap, lasts forever, rides like buttah. A single Hellion turbo and you're in the 11s with style.
But you already mentioned them.
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I have never ridden in the front seat of one of those vehicles.....and the hard plastic seat and cage in the back made it hard to discern how comfortable the ride was for the other occupants.....
 
My father in law makes 6 figures and refuses to buy a truck. He drives either a crown Vic or the mercury variant grandma car (I forget which). He put a trailer hitch on it and he hauls all sorts of crap on a 5x10 utility. He helped me move with it once. Says he just likes the way they ride. He had a marauder forever. I never understood why he wouldn’t get a truck. He even bird hunts out of the damn thing.
 
Wes said:
My father in law makes 6 figures and refuses to buy a truck. He drives either a crown Vic or the mercury variant grandma car (I forget which). He put a trailer hitch on it and he hauls all sorts of crap on a 5x10 utility. He helped me move with it once. Says he just likes the way they ride. He had a marauder forever. I never understood why he wouldn’t get a truck. He even bird hunts out of the damn thing.
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Haha. Does he wear black socks and sandals too? My dad had company station wagons when I was a kid in the 70’s. He headed a sand mining resin coating division in Michigan in the 60’s and 70’s during auto industry boom time. Sold casting sands to the big 3. He was an iron worker (teamster) As the factory was built and worked his way up. True tough guy that you’d think would have to have a truck. Nope. When he got the supervisory role he got a company car but what they gave him were the sales peoples worn out leftover wagons. Big old Chrysler’s as I recall. I hated those goddam cars. He’d drive me to school or wherever and ain’t nothing cool about a wood paneled worn out old Chrysler wagon boat shitmobile full of resin coated sand residue....nothing cool at all. Same as your FIL, if we had to pull a trailer to cut wood or something, the old Chrysler wagon got the call to duty. And no fucks were given!!! Those things rode well though. Kinda floated down the road as the carbon monoxide sucked in through the tail door/window thing that was always down about 4 inches. Good times
 
Most comfortable, best riding car I've ever owned was a 2001 325i. (Which made me look more than a couple times at the wagon that is for sale).

Also had grandma's 1994 Park Avenue for a while which was like riding on a couch but had no support.
 
LBarr2002 said:
Most comfortable, best riding car I've ever owned was a 2001 325i. (Which made me look more than a couple times at the wagon that is for sale).

Also had grandma's 1994 Park Avenue for a while which was like riding on a couch but had no support.
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Nothing cheap about buying or owning a BMW....been there, done that.
 
Get one of those wooden bead seat cover things. It will do wonders.
Mom had one in her old 300TD Benz and it was awesome.

Also keeps the sweaty back effect away during the summer.
 
4 cars I've had that I *never* had an issue with making a long drive in (except MPG's). I could do 500-700 miles straight in any of these, and feel like I could keep on going for another lap.

'74 Eldorado
'77 Cordoba
'93 Lincoln Town Car
'90 Grand Wagoneer

Don't think I've ever ridden in anything newer that rode as good as these.
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
If you're wanting to keep a jeep, the grand cherokees ride pretty good, but not completely cloud like. More like marshmallows.

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I don't know what it is but jeep puts their daam steering wheels too close to the drivers door.
Tj, xj, wj, jk...my left arm is pinned against me. I haven't quite figured out what dimension is off I can't get comfortable driving on of them
 
Ron said:
I don't know what it is but jeep puts their daam steering wheels too close to the drivers door.
Tj, xj, wj, jk...my left arm is pinned against me. I haven't quite figured out what dimension is off I can't get comfortable driving on of them
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Big boy brackets in my TJ are a game changer.
 
I love my Lincolns, but man did I go through a phase of loving late 90’s-early 2000’s Cadillac and Buick sedans. They’re still the most comfortable vehicles I’ve driven or ridden in.
 
Wes said:
He even bird hunts out of the damn thing.
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Nothing helpful to add on topic, but I've put several deer in the trunk of Honda Accords...ain't no shame in my game!

RatLabGuy said:
Get one of those wooden bead seat cover things. It will do wonders.
Mom had one in her old 300TD Benz and it was awesome.

Also keeps the sweaty back effect away during the summer.
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x2 on this!
 
Did anyone mention 2000 Cadillac El Dorado?

If that’s not your style Crown Vic/Marauder is hard to beat.

it’ll be your grand kids generation muscle sedan.
 
Still get a Caddy, just go pre-Northstar.

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Dad had one of these ....'92 Fleetwood .... same color and everythang!
Rode like your fav sidepiece on a cloud.
You could run over a cow a 75 mph .... and get a little fluff 1/4 mile later.
The seats were sitting in the bestest mostest comfiestest leather couch ever made.
A family of four could live in the back seat.
They called it a Fleetwood 'cuz it was the same size as a Fleetwood mobile home.
BTW- '92 was a kinda a split year .. Caddy sold the Fleetwood in the both the old battleship platform and the new smaller downsized platform.
If you want old man car comfort, mid 80s to mid 90s American Luxury (Caddy, Buick, Olds) is the way to go, IMHO.
Besides, if you get tired of it, you can lower it for a custom look or donk it out for a stupid look.
 
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I dig the OLD caddy, but finding one in good shape with decent miles....well, that is a 30 year old vehicle. Trying to minimize my weekends spent repairing said comfortable vehicle.

I think the Ford Panther platform is going to take the win....I really like the old GM H-body platforms (Lesabre, bonneville, LSS, etc)....but I HATE fwd cars.....I hate the way the feel, I hate working on them.....I do not like them sam I am!

I watched a few videos where an STS kit put ~380hp to the rear on a crown vic.....probably never do it, but that is what I will tell people when they ask why I am driving a beige/beige bingo-a-go-go groupie wagon.
 
Ron said:
I don't know what it is but jeep puts their daam steering wheels too close to the drivers door.
Tj, xj, wj, jk...my left arm is pinned against me. I haven't quite figured out what dimension is off I can't get comfortable driving on of them
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I have always felt similar, just never could pinpoint it. But you are right. It's like they didn't put enough room next to the door.

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