The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine

Re:The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine by Multicomp on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:04PM (#35757706)

These will be back at some point... And there will be flabbergasted news articles talking about how Gen z or Gen AA want to see them for their novelty and there will be gray beard Gen x and Gen y talking about how back in their day everyone used to stretch limos.

But it will be a stretch limo cyber truck or a stretch limo SUV, there aren't very many land yacht style sedans left over yet, except for say the Lincoln Continental.

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Re:The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine by doubled112 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:42PM (#35757981)

I wonder how much more difficult it is to extend a unibody chassis vs the old body on frame.

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Re:The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine by CydeWeys on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:08PM (#35758172)

I mean, they won't be back if they can't easily be constructed by modifying existing production vehicles. The market for them is never again going to get big enough to support from-scratch production as a new model line.

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Re:The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine by zamnos on Sunday April 30, 2023 @10:42AM (#35762984)

Never mind the novelty of it, it's a bigger space inside, so instead of being limited to 4 or 6 of your friends (plus you as the driver), you can have 8+ people in a limo, plus (by the time gen AA or AB is ready for it) a robot for driver. The glory days will be back as soon as self-driving cars come around and people come to appreciate all the extra interior space, and are able to afford such a luxury.

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