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Essel, sorry for not replying, I kind of forgot about this thread! The car was unfortunately written off about 4-5 months ago when parked in a side street in Richmond and a rare high tide caused the thames to flood. Now in an Aston so won't be posting on here for a while :( Sold the salvage...

Yes it is a poor personality trait of mine.. responding when insulted.. I am sorry, I will try to be a 'better' person in future (!) And you think it's fine to defend the person who insults one when another says something about him, but criticise the person who defends themselves... right.

And how does that justify his insulting post toward me? I had 'live and let live' and was responding to posts in this thread as it went on. I really cannot understand his and your clear objection to this thread and its contents and/or me. Nevertheless, I had not mentioned either of you but...

To be honest, it probably wasn't much quieter! Paul's E55 is probably that loud.

I'll try not to

To those who actually want to contribute to the thread: Revving - unfortunately I didn't have an opportunity to get anyone else to video the car, I do have a video of me driving roof down and will upload that soon enough....It was just too loud, even at cruising revs. I'll get some vids of the...

There was certainly no threat of violence in my post. I was and still am looking forward to meeting him - I would love to know (as I posted above) whether he is as obnoxious in real life as he is on here.. where a threat of violence was interpreted there I don't know :confused:

Thanks guys... I would still love to see if he is as abnoxious an **** in real life as he is on the forums. I suspect he is one of those types who cannot understand why anyone would have interests outside of his own :dk: Ah well, I smile every time I start the engine on either of my cars - and...

Oh you're back, nothing better to do than comment on posts you have no actual interest in? God you are a sad little old man. I can't wait to bump into you at a meet.

Ah videos... I have a couple with me driving with roof down and one of a cold start when it was a little too loud, what's the best/easiest place to host videos? I'll get some videos up of the car now that it's a little quieter soon too. But yep, some useful and some amusing posts, and some...

Thanks, it's by no means quiet, but it's nowhere near as loud and droney as it was last week! It has a nice muscle car sound now :D

And my dad is bigger than all of your dads. Anyway, got the car back with some mid silencers installed and it's no longer anti-social whilst still having a lovely rumble and sounds great on WOT :) Sorry to disappoint some of you, I'm afraid it's no longer one of the loudest SL55s...

Not an E55, but a slightly modified SL55 with ~550bhp and 600lb vs. a standard 2008 997 turbo tiptronic with sports-chrono is a very close race... I was disappointed somewhat that the 911 was very slowly walking away from the SL, and continuing to do so well into scary numbers. A similarly...

I have had a number of experiences with traffic plod, some good, some bad. Many years ago, in my E55' I pulled onto a dual carriageway that had not very long been reduced to a 50 limit from 70 for a couple of decades. The rear window was a little cloudy and I noticed some headlights approaching...

I totally understand and respect those who wish to own standard cars - old and new - even spend thousands restoring cars to their former factory standard glory. Some of the nicest MB's are this way. I just wish the same could be said in reverse... don't get me wrong, we all have a chuckle at...

To be fair, you probably aren't too far off in the case of most financial advisors :D (not this one of course)

I have been and still am a financial advisor.

I started studying dentistry this week, so 5 years of it!

Well so far she has agreed to consider a diesel one but I'm trying to tell her that she doesn't really do that many miles to need one. Either way, it's not gonna happen this year, but hoping a test in one in the summer next year may do the trick :cool:

Oh I can't afford to buy another car, I'm a student now :-( She wants to swap her CLC, loves the SLK but isn't convinced that she needs a 5.4 V8 :D