I’ve made sure that’s not going to happen to me I’m off to the ovens for a nice tanStealing someone else's saying... there is no point in being the richest man in the graveyard !
AMG performance *Controversial post warning*
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There are a few posts along the lines of "it's a man thing", I should point out I wouldn't have the AMG if it wasn't for Zoe, I was saying we couldn't afford it and she basically told me to buy it anyway! She's a keeper.
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We've already to our son to expect nothing --- I want to die slightly in debt
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Mine too - I was looking for a new car (CLS shooting brake) and there was a SLK standing in the showroom. My wife said - "you've always wanted something sporty why don't you try that" and pointed at a SLK 350. Dealer loaned us a demo for the weekend and I went in and purchased it on the Monday.
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We've already to our son to expect nothing --- I want to die slightly in debt
Oh god this made me laugh so much! My mother said more or less the same to me, "I've worked my whole life for this and I'm spending it. Go earn your own, you little sh*t!"
So I did. Now the AMG gets it all haha!
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I don’t think it’s a man thing either. My wife adores them, and my daughter would have one too f she could.
That makes two of us.
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You appear to have missed the words “in aggregate”15 seconds!! Even from standstill you'd have to be doing 140 by then.
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I would say it's a "petrolhead" thing.
I love my N Wales holiday trips. I'm happy in the Suzuki or the SLK. Suzuki is so fun on the narrower windy roads. The SLK is fun cruising there and having those fleeting moments when you get an empty uphill stretch where you can boot it and feel the full power.
The V8 AMG also serves its purpose when I am not driving it. Being petrolheads, no doubt we spend an unhealthy amount of time on car forums and scouring the classified. Then you get the urge/desire for some performance car before you take a deep breath, remember that you have an AMG in the garage and then breath out and relax.
I love my N Wales holiday trips. I'm happy in the Suzuki or the SLK. Suzuki is so fun on the narrower windy roads. The SLK is fun cruising there and having those fleeting moments when you get an empty uphill stretch where you can boot it and feel the full power.
The V8 AMG also serves its purpose when I am not driving it. Being petrolheads, no doubt we spend an unhealthy amount of time on car forums and scouring the classified. Then you get the urge/desire for some performance car before you take a deep breath, remember that you have an AMG in the garage and then breath out and relax.
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I do think AMG ownership is part transport part hobby. I’ve never seen the attraction of spending thousands to join a club to hit and chase little white balls round a field all afternoon. Therefore the extra amg costs I can use man maths to justify if looked at in this context. Neither have I got driving a car which is basically an appliance on wheels just because it does a million miles to a gallon but you begrudge every minute you spend it in.
It’s a sad fact these days that a lot of people don’t see cars as anything more than just a means to and end of getting from one place to another let alone people who actually view a car as hobby in itself.
It’s a sad fact these days that a lot of people don’t see cars as anything more than just a means to and end of getting from one place to another let alone people who actually view a car as hobby in itself.
2 points.
1. Do I take it that the E63 is going up for sale ?
2. Can I recommend a film for you to watch.
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I must admit I don’t know how you deduced from my last post I’m going to be selling the e63..an appliance on wheels is more something along these lines
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I totally get this. I've had fast cars before, mainly BMWs (Z4 M Coupe, Alpina B3, M135i) and I'm now on my second Mercedes, a W204 C350 CDi. I was lucky enough recently to have 150 miles behind the wheel of @HowardG's C63 507 Estate. It was awesome, as you'd expect, but getting back in my own car proved how good a daily mine is. Quick, quiet, comfortable.
I've since been looking at C63s, because V8/life's too short and all that but it's twice the purchase price, twice the fuel cost, twice the RFL and probably 5% of the time I'll get to use the power delta. My current car isn't exactly slow either. So it's a hard sell. I'll probably do it anyway, but whenever I've had fast cars I've always sold them because they weren't that good at the everyday stuff that makes up the majority of the driving I do. If I lived in the Scottish Highlands with the open roads and less traffic, I'd probably think differently.
I've concluded that what I really need is a nice large capacity petrol engine Merc without the "look of me" of the AMG models, but sadly nobody bought them and so MB don't sell them anymore (E500, CLS500, C350 petrol etc)
I've since been looking at C63s, because V8/life's too short and all that but it's twice the purchase price, twice the fuel cost, twice the RFL and probably 5% of the time I'll get to use the power delta. My current car isn't exactly slow either. So it's a hard sell. I'll probably do it anyway, but whenever I've had fast cars I've always sold them because they weren't that good at the everyday stuff that makes up the majority of the driving I do. If I lived in the Scottish Highlands with the open roads and less traffic, I'd probably think differently.
I've concluded that what I really need is a nice large capacity petrol engine Merc without the "look of me" of the AMG models, but sadly nobody bought them and so MB don't sell them anymore (E500, CLS500, C350 petrol etc)
It’s that sense of occasion every time you look at it, hear it, sit in it, drive it and park it. It’s also an inspiration as well as being an achieved aspiration for most of us.
It’s how it makes you feel when you drive it (even legally), those looks, that rumble, that presence, that sound when you open it, that makes owning an AMG worthwhile. If you are a petrolhead you’ll get it. There’s no way a Golf tdi (the other car in our household) or similar gives you all of that or even 50%, yes it’ll get you from A to B and yes it’ll be more economical, but it’ll never have the same sense of occasion.....
It’s how it makes you feel when you drive it (even legally), those looks, that rumble, that presence, that sound when you open it, that makes owning an AMG worthwhile. If you are a petrolhead you’ll get it. There’s no way a Golf tdi (the other car in our household) or similar gives you all of that or even 50%, yes it’ll get you from A to B and yes it’ll be more economical, but it’ll never have the same sense of occasion.....
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I am in a similar position. Sold "fast" cars as spend so much time sat in traffic or progress impeded and so limited enjoyment - drive 30K/annum in my commuter (E Class) car.
Do not get me wrong, would love an E63 but just wrong for so many reasons in my circumstances. One could argue - keep an AMG for weekends.........lucky to have 2 x 1ltre bikes and also had the garage queen (sorry it was a different marque) and so the AMG enjoyment is kept for when I see others driving their pride&joy because I am the type of person who can be happy for others in their chariot.
Others may look at my AMG line/sport diesel and think "wannabe". Personally, I like all the bling, as am a long time spoilers/skirts/wheels and tat.
I partly write this post as keep trying to talk myself out of purchasing an E63 BUT just know that when the right specification car pops up will buy it, practicality be damned.
