RE: Driven: Mercedes E500 Cabriolet
Discussion
soad said:
Good write up as always - quite lovely looking car too.
'write up' is spot on...Hardly the most riveting read. Sorry, but I have to say I find the journalistic talent on PH a bit thin on the ground...great if you're enthusiastic amateurs, but do you chaps actually get paid to write this?
Wolfsbait said:
soad said:
Good write up as always - quite lovely looking car too.
'write up' is spot on...Hardly the most riveting read. Sorry, but I have to say I find the journalistic talent on PH a bit thin on the ground...great if you're enthusiastic amateurs, but do you chaps actually get paid to write this?
gumsie said:
......In fact, with 369lb ft on tap from 1600rpm, it can out-muscle the old supercharged C32 AMG of the early noughties (which had to make do with 332lb ft). The diesel beats the old AMG on in-gear times as a result.
Really. So if you wanted to get between 30 and 70 in the fastest possible way you'd leave the AMG would you? Or would you take it and do what all normal people do when they want to overtake in a hurry and that's select the right gear from the outset as opposed to stay in one gear all the while.
I've not actually checked the times, I'm just assuming but why do people always take a force fed diesel and compare it to a lightly breathing petrol model?
Autocar tested the C350 CDI saloon which has 228bhp and 398Ib ft of torque and it did 30-70 in kickdown in 6.2 secs. By contrast, when they tested the C32 AMG in 2001, it did 30-70 in 3.9 secs. In gear times are also irrelevant to the C32 as it was automatic only.Really. So if you wanted to get between 30 and 70 in the fastest possible way you'd leave the AMG would you? Or would you take it and do what all normal people do when they want to overtake in a hurry and that's select the right gear from the outset as opposed to stay in one gear all the while.
I've not actually checked the times, I'm just assuming but why do people always take a force fed diesel and compare it to a lightly breathing petrol model?
king read it then!
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