gramey
Active Member
I only asked for comments from owners, but I didn’t expect a public hanging on the forum. My choosing to have 4 cars on SORN has no bearing to my original question.
I’m retired and have already had my fun with fast cars and noisy V8 exhausts’. Nowadays I prefer to enjoy my driving in a more sedate fashion.
All my cars are maintained to a very high standard and are certainly not scrappers, also I am a great believer in preventative maintenance and if any of the cars require anything they get it, but I do object to the exorbitant and unfair VED charges which the government have applied, so enough said on that topic.
As I said in my OP I am only exploring the possibility of purchasing an SL which would be run alongside our CLS Shooting Brake and envisage this use would involve weekends away and with an estimated annual mileage of between 5 & 10k, but not being a golfer I don’t have to face the storage problem. There’s enough space for two nice matching cases to be strapped in behind the seats which will suffice.
So with the big V8’s put into touch my choice would remain with the V6 models and as for budget I don’t think I would want to go over 15k. I could purchase a newer model but I prefer to keep something as a nest egg for that “rainy day”.
Well as you will have seen no public hanging from this very happy 350 owner, albeit it's my only car so you could say I'm biased, but I haven't regretted for one minute buying the 'baby' version, I love it.

