Beleriand

We need another controversy . . . like when I tried to sell my SLK55 wheels for $2,000. Man, we had like 300 posts in 2 days. Or the time I lectured that kid for paying too much for his insurance. Or the BMW shills coming in here and talking down to us. Man, where is all the action?

Where the hell has everyone gone!!!!?

SundayDriver

Probably looking for sparks somewhere else . . . like on clubcobra.com (bring your Nomex suit!).

I'm with you, Beleriand. As a prospective owner of an SLK55 that I'm picking up as soon as the Dragonsnake is sold this Memorial Day weekend (see http://www.shelbyford.com/wimtoday.html - bring at least a million!), I used to look in on the forum almost every day. Now it's a couple of times a week.

The reason I'm buying the SLK55 over the bigger Merc roadsters isn't so much a question of money. It's because I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those barges. The 55 looks to me like a kind of rogue Mercedes - the black sheep in a family of checkered pants, country club conveyances (with the possible exception of the V12). The 55 won't have the same in-your-face quality that the Dragonsnake had when I first licensed her for the street back in 1967. Some 400 HP in a 2,200 lbs car with big Cobra lettering on the side is hard to argue with, even today. But I'm hoping the new car will be raucous enough and agile enough and quick enough to at least have some fun with on the back-country roads of upstate New York, without getting dusted by some hopped-up rice rocket.

Not much of a controversy starter, Beleriand, but let me ask you this: What was Mercedes thinking when they offered the $6,000 Performance Package without throwing in at least a few extra ponies? I would gladly have paid $8-10,000 extra for the taughter suspension and better brakes (and harsher ride), but not without also getting a "Performance" upgrade in the engine compartment.

SundayDriver

fredfromny

This only means one thing:
Our cars are relatively reliable and trouble free.
I hang out at the Audi boards and there is another problem every ten minutes with their cars. I guess no news is good news. Although I was hoping to get some replies on the illegal downpipe thread.

novabenz

Both this forum, and the benzworldforum's are both pretty lame compared to other sites, such as the corvette forum.com or the Pontiac Solistice forum which both recieve a lot more traffic then here

The good news is that SLK's are very well built, reliable cars without the problems to talk about like the other models. On the corvette forum those owners are all screaming about either batteries going dead (for no reason) or better yet - the targa roofs coming unglued and flying off the car

Finally, I agree with the post above about the "Peformance Package" - no additional power = no interest.

If you want to read about the roofs flying of the new C6 Corvette (which GM has sworn is the best built Vette yet) here is the link:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1393557

Ynot

Bimmer forums are also very active, almost too active, can't keep with up all the updates and upgrades to the cars. I like something in between, benz forums are a little dull. I see more benz owners talking about benz in bimmer forums than here, they all migrated b/c of the low activities here.

LETO

maybe the SLK owners are all too busy driving their cars as it is top down time

spnslc

Touche!! The weather has been so great that I know I have been away from the forum a lot lately! I look for every excuse to go out "top-down" and enjoy the drive and my car!

jmejones

Or maybe Benz owners have a life

Ynot

Stuck in the office, wish that was true for me.

alroumi

Did 240kmh top down on the SLK55 going to the Chalet, I didnt hear any wind noise cranked up Carlos Santana Maria maria 9 oclock at night what an exciting ride!