Ok so I take my car into the dealer for an Oil change and they screwed up my front bumper. I am not gonna say who the dealer is since they came out and admittted it and are paying to fix the problem and let me drive a 07TL to boot. The TL has 17K on it
Pros

Good styling
Ride is sweet
Great seats
handbrake
control more stuff from the steering wheel

The suck

no redline indicator on tach?
backlit LCD hard to see in the sun
new 5 spd auto sucks when it comes to downshifting (read very slow) sport shift seems to be a little better. I think the CL is quicker in this regard
STILL HAS THE AUTO 1-2 SHIFT IN SPORT MOD!!!! (you cannot hold car in first while in SS)

I am a rather small dude at 5'6" and it felt like my head was right up on the door frame, I would hate to be any taller and have to drive that car.....

Accelleration is very fast but it lacks the GROWL that a CL type S has even in sock from. I would say it is on par from a dead stop to my ride with headers. while in motion and getting on the gas the CL feels much more responsive and will get into a lower gear quicker.

Audio sounds great, dual heat is nice heated seats missing high low feature. Bluetooth is a neat feature and so are projector head lights

Relocation of mirror and VSA controls to lower in the dash panel is not favorable, interior is a little too flashy. outside temp / information cluster moved to right pod, instrumentation is easy to read but the blue orange combo is well bleh.........

I will drive it a few more days and we'll see if it grows on me..................

front bumper on my car has a big ass hole in it here the dude ran right into a rim that was on the floor in the shop.........

 

They are very nice cars. Stawoo has one now and I've driven it. I wasn't that impressed with the power. My CL would have eaten it alive for sure. But, did I mention it is a nice car?

 

I just had my second white 07 TL for a loaner yesterday and it was like the first, just not too impressive. Unlike you I hated the seats, no bolsters on them. Mine both had hi/low heated seats and I'm 6'3" and I had more room in the TL than my CL-S. Maybe you didn't realize you can adjust the seat hight? At first I was all up on the head room but then I adjusted the seat hight/recline and it was nice. I agree the growl isn't there and like Lord Helmet I feel my CL-S would take it pretty easily. Also the steering wheel on the TL seemed kind of skinny and took more effort to turn than my CL-S. Yes, a very nice car, but if I was about to spend high 30's for a new car I'd probably go with a G35. That's just because they don't offer a new CL though!

 

If it's not about a 2nd gen CL.... it goes into Cartalk...

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