It's been a week now since I test drove the car and I've had a week of thinking as to whether I'd done the right thing.
So yesterday arrived and I went to pick it up, first off I got caught in the M25 traffic from Heathrow to the A3 and the trip computer recorded an alarming 8 MPG something I'm sure me and the car didn't like that much.
Once home I took the car along my favourite piece of road near to me, I've been driving and riding my motorbikes on this bit of road for coming on 40 years now and use it as the benchmark of a cars and bikes road abilities.
It has two sweeping bends left and right that tighten up, there is clear vision of the road ahead. My test has always been to drive on the correct side of the road without cutting corners.
My latest other car is a VX220 Turbo which I have spent a fortune on getting track prepared i.e. sticky tyres, adjustable shocks etc and it is a very fast capable little car. Well the AMG did it only 10 MPH less with little drama so I'm impressed.
Having now drained the £60 worth of Shell's finest petrol at 17 MPG I really like this car, I love the high speed whirr of the starter motor and the abrupt start up sound, I like the easy entry/exit system but most of all after driving for a few hours I said to myself I get it, I think I know what they were trying to achieve with this car.
It has this ability to make you think and know it always has sufficient power and ability in reserve for whatever you want to do.
Lets face it with unmarked police cars and sneaky speed traps you only really get 'moments' in cars like these but it is the fact that these moments take your breath away that for me make it worthwhile.
So yesterday arrived and I went to pick it up, first off I got caught in the M25 traffic from Heathrow to the A3 and the trip computer recorded an alarming 8 MPG something I'm sure me and the car didn't like that much.
Once home I took the car along my favourite piece of road near to me, I've been driving and riding my motorbikes on this bit of road for coming on 40 years now and use it as the benchmark of a cars and bikes road abilities.
It has two sweeping bends left and right that tighten up, there is clear vision of the road ahead. My test has always been to drive on the correct side of the road without cutting corners.
My latest other car is a VX220 Turbo which I have spent a fortune on getting track prepared i.e. sticky tyres, adjustable shocks etc and it is a very fast capable little car. Well the AMG did it only 10 MPH less with little drama so I'm impressed.
Having now drained the £60 worth of Shell's finest petrol at 17 MPG I really like this car, I love the high speed whirr of the starter motor and the abrupt start up sound, I like the easy entry/exit system but most of all after driving for a few hours I said to myself I get it, I think I know what they were trying to achieve with this car.
It has this ability to make you think and know it always has sufficient power and ability in reserve for whatever you want to do.
Lets face it with unmarked police cars and sneaky speed traps you only really get 'moments' in cars like these but it is the fact that these moments take your breath away that for me make it worthwhile.