Looking at coming back to MB

[terrymcg]

Hi Guys,

I have spent a few years away from MB, but fancy jumping back into the wafting around in style way of driving!!

I like my quick cars and have been looking at this CLK500 at a dealer in Glasgow, heres the link:

2005 MERCEDES-BENZ CLK 5000 cc 500 Sport 2dr Tip Auto

What do you guys reckon to the price/spec etc. Also do you reckon the fuel bills will be crippling compared to my last cars ive been running(E46 M3, MkV R32 and currently a 57 plate S3), or pretty much comparable??

Cheers,

Terry.

 

[55NF]

Classy car....... I think it'll be a fair bit heavier on fuel than the E46 M3. I had two E46 M3's which were pretty good MPG.

My current C350 CDI is appaling around town (19 - 20 MPG)and that's a diesel! , so the 500 Sport won't be that great. Depends what type of driving you do I suppose

 

[BaldGuy]

Nice.... I had one of the early CLK500's and it was a lovely car, I then moved onto a CLK55 Cabriolet which up to now is the best car that I have owned and I've had a few!!! Both of mine were fully optioned..

Out of both I averaged 23mpg mixed driving and i'm no "driving miss daisy" sort of guy...

Good price, fully AMG'g, nice spec but no zenons, keyless go.. still very nice though.... totally different car to the M3 and S3 and other say its heavy... putting all that aside its no slouch and I think that 2005 model will have the 388bhp engine.

 

[steve333]

Hi Guys,

I have spent a few years away from MB, but fancy jumping back into the wafting around in style way of driving!!

I like my quick cars and have been looking at this CLK500 at a dealer in Glasgow, heres the link:

2005 MERCEDES-BENZ CLK 5000 cc 500 Sport 2dr Tip Auto

What do you guys reckon to the price/spec etc. Also do you reckon the fuel bills will be crippling compared to my last cars ive been running(E46 M3, MkV R32 and currently a 57 plate S3), or pretty much comparable??

Cheers,

Terry.

In my cls 500(5.5ltr) i average 21mpg(mixed) & 27mpg(motorway)

 

[terrymcg]

Nice.... I had one of the early CLK500's and it was a lovely car, I then moved onto a CLK55 Cabriolet which up to now is the best car that I have owned and I've had a few!!! Both of mine were fully optioned..

Out of both I averaged 23mpg mixed driving and i'm no "driving miss daisy" sort of guy...

Good price, fully AMG'g, nice spec but no zenons, keyless go.. still very nice though.... totally different car to the M3 and S3 and other say its heavy... putting all that aside its no slouch and I think that 2005 model will have the 388bhp engine.

Do you reckon it may be a 388bhp, as when you click the performance tab on Autotrader it says 306bhp and they normally take the details from the VRN.

23mpg sounds fair, and the wife will drive it slow most of the time so it may get better than that!

 

[st4]

Worse on fuel than the M3 and R32 by 10% tops. A tenner a week in reality over 1 tank and a half/week.

Check the V5, its of 5500cc then 388bhp, if 5000cc 306bhp. Nice engines both.

 

[blaser24nig]

very nice car and as has been said already, it'll be a bit more on fuel on this than your previous cars...

 

[steve333]

Do you reckon it may be a 388bhp, as when you click the performance tab on Autotrader it says 306bhp and they normally take the details from the VRN.

23mpg sounds fair, and the wife will drive it slow most of the time so it may get better than that!

As it's a 2005 it's probably a 5ltr(306bhp) as opposed to the later 5.5ltr(388bhp)whichever it is(you can check on the dvla site)there is virtually no difference between the 2 in mpg.

 

[terrymcg]

Just found a nice 2003 CLK55 AMG at a MB dealer in Sheffield for 14995, how would that stack up against the above car. At then end of the day is the AMG a better motor? I presume the MPG to be the same on the 55 as the 500?

 

[killwilly]

The CLK has always been one of my favourite cars. There are two reasons why I didn't buy one when I bought my CLC in June.

1) I couldn't afford it. 2) It wouldn't fit in my garage.

 

[steve333]

Just found a nice 2003 CLK55 AMG at a MB dealer in Sheffield for 14995, how would that stack up against the above car. At then end of the day is the AMG a better motor? I presume the MPG to be the same on the 55 as the 500?

Thats top money for a 2003 car,try to get a 2004 on as mb galvernised them from then the 55 amg will cost more allround to run than a 500(mpg will be about 5mpg less on the amg,insurance/servicing etc will also be higher)if you can get a 500(388bhp) for the same money theres less than a second 0-60 between the 2 although the amg feels a different car overall to drive(thats not to say the 500's are dull).