any take any good trips with their bs yet?
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2013 G63 AMG
not me.
but my dad picked up his black series in chicago. we live in canada.
so he and my brother flew to chicago then drove from chicago to arizona in the black series. he said it was amazing. the drive was perfect and the car drives amazing.
they hit some crazy speeds
but my dad picked up his black series in chicago. we live in canada.
so he and my brother flew to chicago then drove from chicago to arizona in the black series. he said it was amazing. the drive was perfect and the car drives amazing.
they hit some crazy speeds
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CLK 63 AMG Black
I think the limiting factor is range. Most of my driving is highway, and shortly after 200 miles, the reserve fuel warning comes on. While the tank is something over 16 gallons, typically I am putting in 12 or 13. When I drive my normal highway style (75-90 mph), fuel consumption is just north of 17 mpg. Higher speeds will drop that down. AS
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CLK63 BS
Drove mine from Bay Area to Newport and back. Good break in sequence to get > 1900 miles for the differential oil change. Drove mostly around 85mph on Interstate 5 (very straight road forever if you are not familiar). Went up the Grapevine at 100 just because I could.... Anyway got an amazing 19.7 MPG, tanked up at around 270 miles. Not what I would call a fun drive but the car was really comfortable-plugged the iPod into the Aux jack and just cruised.
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2010 CL65
I think the limiting factor is range. Most of my driving is highway, and shortly after 200 miles, the reserve fuel warning comes on. While the tank is something over 16 gallons, typically I am putting in 12 or 13. When I drive my normal highway style (75-90 mph), fuel consumption is just north of 17 mpg. Higher speeds will drop that down. AS
Rarely drive beyond 75mis of SF/LA (too much ADD to deal w/the boredom of driving beyond these regions)......only get 11-12MPG in my mix of urban/high-speed fwy/mtn twisties driving......no matter CL63/SL65/599/997TT....
Cars w/<18gall tanks like 997TT....or CLK BS....are incredibly annoying for even daily urban commute duty (esp in regions like SF where some have 90mi round-trip SF-SiliconValley commutes (prob one of fastest, most enjoyable commutes in world
but burns fuel rapidly).....And cars like 599/430....though w/28gall tanks....have fuel tanks w/dubious crashworthiness.....net, net, perhaps just as useless for commuting/GT use, esp if one needs to "risk-adjust" range for any collision.....
