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I thought I do a bit of an experience post in my continued appreciation of the car. I haven't really done a proper road trip/grand tour in the C63 since the pandemic. I've done a few around Europe in the meantime, but those were in rental cars. It was my wife's birthday on Sunday, so I treated her to a spa weekend down in San Luis Obispo. It's about a 500 mile roundtrip from the SF Bay Area. The C63S Coupe is just such a phenomenal grand tourer. With the FL in Comfort mode, it ate up the wobbles in the pavement on the right lane from all the semis leaving their mark, practically keeping the body steady the entire time. With past firmly sprung performance cars I had to bite the bullet and be one of those left lane hogs, because getting shaken around on the right lane got old real fast. Not with this car. It dialed in the dampers just right to waft along even on bumpy stretches. Speaking of hogging the left lane, so many of them doodling along at 65 mph or less with nobody on the right. I could forgive it if they were driving cars with firm suspensions, but no these were SUVs, Pickups and normal commuter cars just camping out on the left lane for no reason. Sometimes slightly spaced apart with another car on the right lane doing the same speed, but not leaving enough room to get around them, but once a window opened up a quick stab on the throttle, transmission dropping a few gears in the blink of an eye and I was gone. In true GT fashion, this car has the comfort, handling and the speed for eating up miles. Had my radar detector up which spotted every CHP on duty miles in advance that would have otherwise nailed me doing lets say speeds north of the speed limits...haha. Just a great reminder of why I still own this car and why I bought it in the first place, and getting almost 24 mpg on average in a car like this is not shabby on a trip like that, either. Keeps the gas station stops to a minimum.
Sorry, no car pics, but we went to check out Sensorio in Paso Robles, an immersive light arts installation out in nature. It was pretty cool.
I thought I do a bit of an experience post in my continued appreciation of the car. I haven't really done a proper road trip/grand tour in the C63 since the pandemic. I've done a few around Europe in the meantime, but those were in rental cars. It was my wife's birthday on Sunday, so I treated her to a spa weekend down in San Luis Obispo. It's about a 500 mile roundtrip from the SF Bay Area. The C63S Coupe is just such a phenomenal grand tourer. With the FL in Comfort mode, it ate up the wobbles in the pavement on the right lane from all the semis leaving their mark, practically keeping the body steady the entire time. With past firmly sprung performance cars I had to bite the bullet and be one of those left lane hogs, because getting shaken around on the right lane got old real fast. Not with this car. It dialed in the dampers just right to waft along even on bumpy stretches. Speaking of hogging the left lane, so many of them doodling along at 65 mph or less with nobody on the right. I could forgive it if they were driving cars with firm suspensions, but no these were SUVs, Pickups and normal commuter cars just camping out on the left lane for no reason. Sometimes slightly spaced apart with another car on the right lane doing the same speed, but not leaving enough room to get around them, but once a window opened up a quick stab on the throttle, transmission dropping a few gears in the blink of an eye and I was gone. In true GT fashion, this car has the comfort, handling and the speed for eating up miles. Had my radar detector up which spotted every CHP on duty miles in advance that would have otherwise nailed me doing lets say speeds north of the speed limits...haha. Just a great reminder of why I still own this car and why I bought it in the first place, and getting almost 24 mpg on average in a car like this is not shabby on a trip like that, either. Keeps the gas station stops to a minimum.
Sorry, no car pics, but we went to check out Sensorio in Paso Robles, an immersive light arts installation out in nature. It was pretty cool.
Very cool SS, we're on the same page, this car is very good at most everything. By the way, tell your bride I said "Happy Birthday", mine
was the next day, the 31st.
2000 c230 kompressor special edition, 2012 E550 coupe (sold), 2017 C63 sedan (sold), 2018 C63S Coupe
Totally agree, I took my PFL from Orange County up to Santa Cruz and Monterey car week last August. 904 total miles, 22mpg average even after some..."north of the limit" driving as you put it...lol. One of the most enjoyable drives I've ever had.
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