Hi all,
New E55 W211 owner here. Picked up the car a couple of months back. It's filthy, so don't expect pictures, maybe later in 2021, but this car will be getting used not cleaned.
Still in the honeymoon period where I can forgive the mpg and the niggly issues (and it seems these W211s have quite a few). I was looking for a replacement for a super-high spec BMW 530d (with almost every option ticked), and ended up at the E55. Handling is disappointing but comfort is great, options are on a par with the BMW, although the Merc Logic7 system is a step below the BMW's. I really miss the heated steering wheel as well.
But what an engine! I still can't get over the Jekyll and Hyde aspect to this car, and a V8 was a box that needed ticking before the option runs out.
History includes a few BMWs (all diesels, no M cars, E39, E90, E60 ... all good in their own ways but jiggly and tiresome on UK roads). Before that was a Seat Freetrack 4 SUV type thing with a 2.0T engine and 4WD (I liked that but it wasn't quite the Golf R on stilts that it should have been, and again suspension was too hard). Then a couple of Audi TTs, 1.8T and 3.2 V6, loved them both for what they were. And in parallel for a few years I ran a VX220 as a fun weekend toy. That trumped all on handling, and I made it my mission to do as many tracks across the UK and Ireland as I could muster. I took it from a neglected 2.2 NA with 143 bhp to a track-oriented wasp (still road legal and MOT'd), running a supercharger and just over 250bhp, harnesses, sticky tyres and a load of chassis mods to make it all work well. It was great watching laptimes come down as the fuel weight dropped off or ground temperatures increased.
I'm sure I'll be on here with questions about fixing the dynamic seats well before I'm asking about optimum tyre pressures for the E55 ...
New E55 W211 owner here. Picked up the car a couple of months back. It's filthy, so don't expect pictures, maybe later in 2021, but this car will be getting used not cleaned.
Still in the honeymoon period where I can forgive the mpg and the niggly issues (and it seems these W211s have quite a few). I was looking for a replacement for a super-high spec BMW 530d (with almost every option ticked), and ended up at the E55. Handling is disappointing but comfort is great, options are on a par with the BMW, although the Merc Logic7 system is a step below the BMW's. I really miss the heated steering wheel as well.
But what an engine! I still can't get over the Jekyll and Hyde aspect to this car, and a V8 was a box that needed ticking before the option runs out.
History includes a few BMWs (all diesels, no M cars, E39, E90, E60 ... all good in their own ways but jiggly and tiresome on UK roads). Before that was a Seat Freetrack 4 SUV type thing with a 2.0T engine and 4WD (I liked that but it wasn't quite the Golf R on stilts that it should have been, and again suspension was too hard). Then a couple of Audi TTs, 1.8T and 3.2 V6, loved them both for what they were. And in parallel for a few years I ran a VX220 as a fun weekend toy. That trumped all on handling, and I made it my mission to do as many tracks across the UK and Ireland as I could muster. I took it from a neglected 2.2 NA with 143 bhp to a track-oriented wasp (still road legal and MOT'd), running a supercharger and just over 250bhp, harnesses, sticky tyres and a load of chassis mods to make it all work well. It was great watching laptimes come down as the fuel weight dropped off or ground temperatures increased.
I'm sure I'll be on here with questions about fixing the dynamic seats well before I'm asking about optimum tyre pressures for the E55 ...