Patman
Staff member
When I was at the detail shop this morning one of the other regulars was there and he brought his Mercedes out of it's winter slumber for a wax job.
As they were washing my car, someone suggested that I go for a ride in the Mercedes, and the guy tossed me the keys and told me to drive! I was shocked, as this car is close to $200,000 up here!
It is just fantastic! It's got a supercharged V8 which makes 493hp, and it's got about 500ft lbs of torque, most of which is available right off idle too. I've never driven a car with this much power in my life!
It is a heavy car at close to 4000lbs, but it would still smoke my Corvette (my Corvette has only 350hp, although it only weighs 3200)
I drove it for about 20min, getting to go full throttle many times and the only thing I didn't like about it was that on the upshifts Mercedes has it programmed to hesitate for a second. Probably to protect the transmission from torque spikes (it's the 5 speed automatic, the 7 speed automatic can't handle the torque of this engine)
I gotta win the lottery now! (and then I'd go for the 600hp version, which is the AMG SL65)
As they were washing my car, someone suggested that I go for a ride in the Mercedes, and the guy tossed me the keys and told me to drive! I was shocked, as this car is close to $200,000 up here!
It is just fantastic! It's got a supercharged V8 which makes 493hp, and it's got about 500ft lbs of torque, most of which is available right off idle too. I've never driven a car with this much power in my life!
It is a heavy car at close to 4000lbs, but it would still smoke my Corvette (my Corvette has only 350hp, although it only weighs 3200)
I drove it for about 20min, getting to go full throttle many times and the only thing I didn't like about it was that on the upshifts Mercedes has it programmed to hesitate for a second. Probably to protect the transmission from torque spikes (it's the 5 speed automatic, the 7 speed automatic can't handle the torque of this engine)
I gotta win the lottery now! (and then I'd go for the 600hp version, which is the AMG SL65)