Pics of your Fast Estate...

[valiant]

Just waiting for someone to post an estate with less power than mine

Only got 215bhp

[Mr E]

Discreet, and can carry 5 people and it’s own spares.

Edit; national trust sticker adds 20bhp

[Welshbeef]

Mr E said:

Discreet, and can carry 5 people and it’s own spares.

Edit; national trust sticker adds 20bhp

E55/63 AMG S212 that is the daddy

[Mr E]

Welshbeef said:

Mr E said:

Discreet, and can carry 5 people and it’s own spares.

Edit; national trust sticker adds 20bhp

E55/63 AMG S212 that is the daddy

Too shouty for me. Too obvious.

[anonymous-user]

Not a 500? Bonus points over a 63 if so!

[Mr E]

Mr E said:

Too shouty for me. Too obvious.

Also, if I’m completely honest, I wasn’t absolutely sure I could I could afford to run one.
I bottled an E61 M5 for the same reason (well, I was completely certain one of those would fk me at some point)

Edited by Mr E on Saturday 18th May 20:41

[Mr E]

JIMMYJ4ZZ said:

Not a 500? Bonus points over a 63 if so!

500.
5.5 litres of almost silent V8. Air ride. Looks like an Uber.
Nobody knows what it is.

I’d say “vanishingly rare” but I’m aware of another (almost identical) on on this very forum.

All the car you realistically need.
We have a lightweight for corners.

[silentbrown]

valiant said:

Just waiting for someone to post an estate with less power than mine

Only got 215bhp

Not mine but I have a soft spot for these. From the days when 130BHP was a lot!

[anonymous-user]

Edited by 01WE01 on Friday 17th July 22:26

[sprinterjk]

Love an estate, particularly one with a bit of grunt...

This is the current one, A6 Allroad 3.0 BiTDI 313PS. Quick rather than truely fast, but more than quick enough for day to day life.



And it's predecessor, the A6 Le Mans 3.0 TDI.

[Mr E]

JIMMYJ4ZZ said:

100% perfect. I have a c63 s205. In stealth mode (no badges, small wheels, blackened exhausts, taxi spec) so not too shouty, but bone shakingly awful, and chintzy.

An S205 might actually get round a corner.
The 212 has lots and lots of grip. To the point that at a driver training day I had to inflate the tyres to maximum, and it still cornered on the sidewalls while peeling the tread off the tyres.

It doesn’t really ‘handle’.

[Swampy1982]

This thread wins pistonheads

[cerb4.5lee]

valiant said:

Just waiting for someone to post an estate with less power than mine

Only got 215bhp

I posted my slower than slow 520d a few pages ago...all 177bhp of it! 177bhp and 1700kg doesn't make for a very fast car that is for sure.

[killysprint]

Here’s mine. Sadly no longer with me. Brilliant. Used as my daily. 20odd thousand mile, £9k in warranty work, £500 depreciation. 12mpg. And still cheaper to run than the e class diesel that I had before it. Loved it.

[anonymous-user]

Mr E said:

JIMMYJ4ZZ said:

100% perfect. I have a c63 s205. In stealth mode (no badges, small wheels, blackened exhausts, taxi spec) so not too shouty, but bone shakingly awful, and chintzy.

An S205 might actually get round a corner.
The 212 has lots and lots of grip. To the point that at a driver training day I had to inflate the tyres to maximum, and it still cornered on the sidewalls while peeling the tread off the tyres.

It doesn’t really ‘handle’.

Great point. The c63 does corner, so much better than big v8 mercs used to; but it is at the expense of any refinement whatsoever, which is why I started buying merc estates in the first place!

It's pretty obvious where they have gone wrong, but that's what the market wants now, or at least thinks it does.

[cerb4.5lee]

I love the rarity of the E61 M5 and the specialness of the engine for sure.

[Second Best]

ninepoint2 said:

Does anybody know where this photo was taken? Somewhere in Wales, perchance?

I experimented with the idea of a fast estate, so bought a C63 wagon. Unfortunately I found myself never using the practicality of the car and instead actually kept my old C180 wagon to use as a daily.

I now run an R320 as a daily (it's a tall estate but not exactly fast) and have gone back to having toy cars.

Obligatory photo of my old C63 to keep with the thread:

[Mr E]

killysprint said:

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• That* is a colour.

Love it.

[CoreyDog]

Only have a diesel Volvo Estate so not going to corrupt this wonderful thread with that.

Some gorgeous cars on here, keep it up!

Love a fast estate but may run into an issue of having to peel the dog off the rear screen whenever I arrived anywhere.

[Mr E]

JIMMYJ4ZZ said:

Great point. The c63 does corner, so much better than big v8 mercs used to; but it is at the expense of any refinement whatsoever, which is why I started buying merc estates in the first place!

It's pretty obvious where they have gone wrong, but that's what the market wants now, or at least thinks it does.

I wanted sufficient shove and something that rode properly while carrying everything I owned. Apparently 17”s will go over the brakes.

I have other solutions for corners.