Fonsini

Thinking seriously about buying a 2016 low miles C200 sedan in the UK, is there anything I should know about this model or any problems to look for.

Bonzo the Dog

My car is a C200 Estate Sport. In 20,000 miles, one fault; a check engine light that was fixed by replacing the oxygen sensor. Best car I have ever had; high speed effortless cruising, very relaxed but has good handling. I could do without the electric handbrake and there really should be space for a spare wheel but that's it for design deficiencies.

I have LED headlights with ILS which is excellent. The advice from others in this forum is to avoid the standard halogen lights and have, at least, LED headlights.

ManiacGT

C200 petrol or diesel?

i have the petrol. It's disappointing. Auto Transmission alone is worthy of burning in the street.

Thlian

Bump it up to a 2017 and get 9g transmission

Fonsini

It would be a petrol model, the C300 is regarded as having a big engine in the UK and is a little heavy on gas for $8 a gallon. Noted about the 9g transmission, I'll make sure it has that.

I rented a new turbo diesel for 2 weeks and while I loved it, the engine sounded really rough especially at low revs, and the transmission always kept it at low revs - honestly the engine/transmission combination was terrible, it was as if the engineers tried to squeeze every last mile out of it, at the expense of everything else including general driveability.

yjchua

The C200 and C300 share the exact same M274 engine but with different states of tune. So not sure why the Brit market would regard it as having a big engine when it's exactly the same as that of the C200/250 (with a different output).

ssbssb

Did you end up purchasing getting the Petrol c-class? How has it been drive wise? I'm looking at a 2015 Petrol c200 from the UK as well.