The E55 at the most famus bridge in motor racing history and in the pit lane.

marc

 

nice wagon! where are you from? GB? and where did you go 150mph, on the track or the 'bahn?

 

I just came back from vacationing in France (Normandy for the D-Day anniversary events). On Thursday 12 June we left Bagnoles-de-L'Orne (about 45 miles from Le Mans) heading north for Calais and the Eurostar train to London for our flight back. I gave myself serious whiplash as I watched literally hundreds of European supercars - Ferrari's, Lambos, P-cars, Aston-Martins, Bentleys, etc, etc...blow by me in the opposite direction heading for the track. I was cursing the guard rail in the median as it was blocking my view! Guess I never realized just how huge an event it is.

Nice wagon, BTW - wish I could take mine over there!

Tom

 

le mans really got big, 200000 visitors just this year! and porsche drivers sleeping in tents next to their car

 

Wow, two wagon owners showing up on this post - both Silver. Did anyone of you think about going black? What was the decision factor going with silver?

Nice wagon Marc. Any mods or plans to mod?

 

Nr 3 has some mods

 

i was also looking for E55K wagon but couldn't find one...
wagon FTW!

 

Nice wagon Marc. Any mods or plans to mod?

I think I will have to go down that route starting with a pulley kit and a chip upgrade. You guys have more choice in the USA and you cant be picky over colour if you want a wagon in the UK. My wish list went Milage, spec, year, price then colour but do rather like Silver. Cars in the US are also hell of a lot cheaper, a new spected up e63 wagon is circa $160,000 dollars in the UK with the current exchange rate and mine had a sticker price of $60k (£30k in sterling) thats for a late 2003, good spec and 24k miles.
So far done 4,000 miles in 7 weeks and just love the car.

 

Silver happened to be the color of the best deal when I was looking. Would have liked the steel blue but at the time very hard to find....

Had two black cars in the past. Too much work to keep 'em good looking, esp. here in the snow belt. Beautiful though when they are clean.

Tom

 

Thanks for your input. I would think the wagons would be easier to come by overseas as for some reason, the US shuns wagons because bigger is better thus all the SUV's - though times are changing.

I believe only five hundred (500) 2005 e55 wagons were imported to the US. I may be looking at going with an '06, but I here even less were imported. I saw the numbers here a while back and will have to do a search. This will most likely reset my expectations.

Keep driving

 

I've checked this out already - according to AMG's website there were 129 imported to North America in 2005 - and only 64 in 2006.

Good luck!

Tom

PS No, it's not as large as an SUV but expect the same lousy gas mileage (especially city driving) !

 

uhhh....those numbers....roger that. Thanks for the bad news

I only burn 300 gallons a year at 20 mpg avg. So I don't expect much of a hit on gas really. I actually put more miles on my road bike (bicycle) per year than my car.