- Joined
- Mar 11, 2013
- Messages
- 10,583
- Location
- South Bucks
- Car
- CLS63 SB, SLK55, Cooper S, Triumph Sprint (Bike not Dolly...),
While the E63 is in with Terry Gates and costing me an armannaleg, he has loaned me an old (P reg) C250 diesel saloon with 248K miles on it. It reminds me of the Jet Provost 3 trainer - a.k.a. the Constant Speed Variable Noise Machine - but it runs perfectly well.
It's roomy, quiet, quite stately in a very 'old-style Mercedes' way, and while it gathers speed rather than accelerates, and understeers and rolls like a b'stard if you even think about fast cornering, it has an air of quality engineering to it, and generally feels indefatigable and unburstable.
It's a slug, but I rather enjoy driving it. It's wonderfully relaxing trundling along at no more than 80 mph; you can't possibly begin to compete with quick stuff, so you don't even try...
Maybe I'm getting old.
It's roomy, quiet, quite stately in a very 'old-style Mercedes' way, and while it gathers speed rather than accelerates, and understeers and rolls like a b'stard if you even think about fast cornering, it has an air of quality engineering to it, and generally feels indefatigable and unburstable.
It's a slug, but I rather enjoy driving it. It's wonderfully relaxing trundling along at no more than 80 mph; you can't possibly begin to compete with quick stuff, so you don't even try...
Maybe I'm getting old.