Hi!
First: I did not buy it, i just was able to drive last weekend.
Unfortunateley i did only something about 150 Kms, 30 on the autobahn with pouring rain, the rest on nice curvy streets, mostly dry conditions.
First impression of course the outer appearance:
I could not manage to get the big grin of my face! The nicely styled hood, wich reminds me of an ancient knight´s armour, the fenders and the small rear spoiler fit very good togehter. It´s also a colour thing, i like black, the car is just like i would configure the style.
Open the door, a little surprise:
It´s not a real coupe, the window is not frameless (i hope you understand me), that means, though you have only one big door, you can not open the side windows to have one fameless window from front to back.
Next, the rear headrests can not turned down, they are fixed. OK, who cares? But it would be better for the all around visibility.
The seat fits me very good, enough space (184cm), very comfortable. The dashoboard is neatly arranged, i like the speedo very much with its coloured screen inside. Maybee a little overkill, too much information with the standard view. But i´m sure, you will get used to it.
Starting, vrooom: Louder than the CL, but less noisy than the SLS. The SLS has a hoarse, far more aggressive sound, the C sounds rumbling like you expect a V8 to do. The CL also has a nice sound, but more discreet, inside its very quiet.
Ok, transmisson on "C" and go. Very smooth, without any remarkable loss of power up to 7k+ rpms, whoopee! Ups, 160, 180 ok Jabba, calm down, 100 allowed. After a while i´m getting jused to it and there are some surprising first impression results (pls remeber, i drove only 150+ kms!)
The acceleration is not as good as the SLSs,but thats no wonder, the C is heavier and has less power. But it also does not feel faster than the CL, wich is a surprise for me, couse of the very big weight advantage. So the brakes: Good, but i was a little stressed sometimes and have to step a little bit harder on the breaks..
Putting transmission to S, next surprise: The shifting became so aggressive, that i turned back to C... (Driving the SLS, i never use C, mostly S or S+). OK, that will need more than some kms to get common.
Driving around, cruising is very nice. I think its very comfortable, nearly as good as the CL. That is good on one hand, but shows one thing, i really miss: a driver adjustable suspension! Especially the CL lacks this.
The fuel consumption is considering the small tank capacity of only 66L a little problem: Pushing hard, 20+ is easy to reach, that means less than 300 Kms range!
Ok, thats all i remember to be remarkable.
Here is a pic of the dashboard:
Finally, one more: The C with the performance package is limited to 280!
The car i had was something about 74k Euro + tax, much extras. Considering what you get, this is a real challenge. But mainly for the E coupe, the E 500 Coupe has nearly the same base price and is not really bigger (in fact i think the C Coupe will steel a lot from the E Coupe)
So far so good, if you have some special questions, i will do my best to answer.
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. Something about the driving experience would be nice.
