Worked the 550 today
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2010 E550
Worked the 550 today
beautiful day today round these parts so spent some time in the twisties with the new E550. If you're from 'round here you'll know the route....
Started heading out to the rock but detoured up potrero - I'm a cyclist too, so didn't dig in too hard here (lots of roadies out today), and the road surface is a bit, er... bad. nice warmup so far.
Hit the straights through hidden valley and a few nice curves around sherwood- was very fortunate to have virtually no traffic and very few bikes, so after the warming up on potrero, ran the 550 through some WOT testing - nice!
Now for the test- up into the hills and into the hard curves of Mulholland and Decker. I had picked up a tweeked up honda in hidden valley, and he wanted to play a bit so he followed me into the hills. Again, this area gets pretty crowded sometimes and I was taking it fairly low key with concern for other cars/bikes/motorcycles, but there were places with great visibility where the 550 could really show what it has - drifting through a few when I could. I thought the honda was modded up pretty well, but he was way behind. As I finished the final slopes of Decker I ended up pushing an A6 in front as well (he was trying, but not a good driver...)
awesome morning, and I was pretty impressed after the workout- not bad for a 'luxury' sedan.
the only ONLY thing I didn't enjoy was the shifting... the gear limiter isn't a good substitute for fast paddle-blipping
Started heading out to the rock but detoured up potrero - I'm a cyclist too, so didn't dig in too hard here (lots of roadies out today), and the road surface is a bit, er... bad. nice warmup so far.
Hit the straights through hidden valley and a few nice curves around sherwood- was very fortunate to have virtually no traffic and very few bikes, so after the warming up on potrero, ran the 550 through some WOT testing - nice!
Now for the test- up into the hills and into the hard curves of Mulholland and Decker. I had picked up a tweeked up honda in hidden valley, and he wanted to play a bit so he followed me into the hills. Again, this area gets pretty crowded sometimes and I was taking it fairly low key with concern for other cars/bikes/motorcycles, but there were places with great visibility where the 550 could really show what it has - drifting through a few when I could. I thought the honda was modded up pretty well, but he was way behind. As I finished the final slopes of Decker I ended up pushing an A6 in front as well (he was trying, but not a good driver...)
awesome morning, and I was pretty impressed after the workout- not bad for a 'luxury' sedan.
the only ONLY thing I didn't enjoy was the shifting... the gear limiter isn't a good substitute for fast paddle-blipping
