Thinking of a W212 Estate

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I've never used Parking assist or Race Start on mine yet either.
Me neither! A bit gimmicky for me. I did a rare parallel park yesterday, should have tried it. And to be honest, the car gets off the line so quickly in the dry, I'm not sure how much race start can bring!
 
I have the 360 camera and find, along with the parking sensors, that parking is made very easy. I had the dynamic seats in the E55 and they are very nice. It's an option I would have liked but if you hold out for everything you'd like you might be waiting forever.
Distronic is supposed be a handy option, but I've never had it so don't miss it;)
I've never used Parking assist or Race Start on mine yet either.

I had dynamic seats in both my C43's and really liked them.

I didn't "get" Distronic until I inherited it in my current E500. I now use it all the time and find it incredibly useful now I've worked out how to play around with the gap between me and the car in front. It takes all the stress out of the endless sections of speed limited dual carriageways and motorways with which we are now plagued (for me it's M1, M25, M4, A40, M40, M3) and and makes driving hundreds of miles a doddle. Mine isn't an AMG but, even so, doing anything more than tickling the throttle at 80mph has it adding 10-20 mph easily, made worse by the fact that it's so quiet. I'm driving it to Bordeaux in the summer and will exit the first peage, set it to 90mph and relax for a few hours.

I was talking online to fella who has an E500 very like mine. We were debating specs and, much though I like the fact that his has a pano and HK, it doesn't have Distronic. I've come to the conclusion I'd now prefer to forgo the pano for the sheer usefulness of Distronic.
 
Hi chaps

I'm new to the forum and MB in general.
Looking to ditch our X5 (no longer need 7 seats) and get into a W212 facelift E63 wagon.

Where's best place to look, other than ebay, autotrader and Pistonheads?

Do it....no need to ask, just do it - get the M157 5.5biturbo, then once you've got "use to the rush" map it & start all over again.
I never keep a car for more than 12-18 months & i've had mine for well over 3 years - to be honest, there's not much out there for under £30k that ticks all the midlife crisis family man needs...
My mate's having his midlife crisis right now & just spent £88k on a 991 Turbo S and yes, it's chuffing awesome & extremely rapid, but i still think the E63 has more soul, character & definitely more volume.
I also think side by side, on a German autobahn in 4 weeks time he'll be very surprised to see how well the old girl goes.
 
I also think side by side, on a German autobahn in 4 weeks time he'll be very surprised to see how well the old girl goes.
Surely won't touch a turbo S, but interested to hear.....
 
I also think side by side, on a German autobahn in 4 weeks time he'll be very surprised to see how well the old girl goes.
Enjoy it while you can.

The Greens are in power now, as part of the "Traffic Light Coalition," and Ricarda Lang is using the energy crisis as an excuse to try to bring in the 130kph limit that the Greens have wanted for a very long time.

It's not popular, but now that Merkel's gone it was a different world over there even before HeWhoMustNotBeNamed started his shenanigans.

Here's the news coverage: Autobahn: Grünen-Chefin Ricarda Lang fordert befristetes Tempolimit - WELT
 
Not expecting to stay with the 991, but it would be good to see what the difference is.
The 992 has changed how we think of a 911 Turbo, but every generation has been mind-bendingly quick - I agree it it would be interesting to see the difference. Maybe passengers could record it?
 
The 992 has changed how we think of a 911 Turbo, but every generation has been mind-bendingly quick
Have a happy memory of being driven to Frankfurt airport a little bit swiftly in a 911 Turbo cabrio by a broker in 1987.

The performance seemed loopy: 280 bhp, 0-62 in 4.9 and quarter mile in 13.5.

Different times. Wouldn't cut it with the modern AMG crowd. No way, no how.

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An owners review from New Zealand 🇳🇿 Nice rumble from the v8 engine

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I have the 360 camera and find, along with the parking sensors, that parking is made very easy. I had the dynamic seats in the E55 and they are very nice. It's an option I would have liked but if you hold out for everything you'd like you might be waiting forever.
Distronic is supposed be a handy option, but I've never had it so don't miss it;)
I've never used Parking assist or Race Start on mine yet either.
You have to use Race start atleast once !

Iv never had distronic on any of my MB cars but driven a W212 E63 with it, it’s actually really handy on the motorways and works wel but no deal breaker.
 
Have a happy memory of being driven to Frankfurt airport a little bit swiftly in a 911 Turbo cabrio by a broker in 1987.

The performance seemed loopy: 280 bhp, 0-62 in 4.9 and quarter mile in 13.5.

Different times. Wouldn't cut it with the modern AMG crowd. No way, no how.

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Sounds like a memorable experience, the sort that stays with you always.
 
Sounds like a memorable experience, the sort that stays with you always.
Different times for sure.

And obviously a two bottle lunch.

In another 30 years, it will be autonomous drive to the airport in a driverless car, at a steady 100kph, after no wine, and a bento box.

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I just made the move from a Range Rover to E63 estate (2014). Like you don't need a full size 5 seater anymore. Mine was listed at a local independent dealer (specialises in MB product), but located through Autotrader. I had to buy in a bit of a rush as I needed a car and had sold the RR faster than expected.

Mine looks like a fairly basic spec, one of the more impressive things are the headlights (Night pack), which I didn't know about before. Would have liked dynamic seats, but were '000 more than what I paid. Not a fan of radar cruise control so don't miss that.

Feedback from passengers is that rear is comfortable enough, but road and wind noise much higher than the RR. And no rear heated seats. I love being back in a powerful car, it's a bit comic how fast the speedo needle moves. Planning a road trip to Germany next year to give it a proper run after the limiter has been removed.
 
Great, enjoy your purchase. Its smiles per gallon all the way 😉
 
It did occur to me that I was buying a thirsty car at the same time as petrol prices were rocketing! But so far quite impressed with the mpg. Used to drive a BMW M6 (V10), and that never saw more than 18mpg, no matter how carefully I drove it.
 
It did occur to me that I was buying a thirsty car at the same time as petrol prices were rocketing! But so far quite impressed with the mpg. Used to drive a BMW M6 (V10), and that never saw more than 18mpg, no matter how carefully I drove it.
I had an Audi S6 V10 before owning the E63 & never got it above 19mpg & that was on a run - shocking, needless to say i didn't keep hold of that one for long. The E63 averages low to middle 20's & i'm happy with that.
 

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