What's Wrong With This Picture: Some Hate The Dreier More Than Others Edition
February 1st, 2011 4:07 PM
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Yes, everyone loves to hate on the BMW 3 Series’ success… but nobody loves to hate it like the Mercedes C63 AMG. And with a new version for 2012, Benz’s Bavarian-burner has about as good a shot as anything else on the market of convincing Mr Prospective Sports Sedan Buyer out of an M3. Meanwhile, it also serves as a stern, 481 HP warning to Jaguar, Cadillac and the assorted Dreier-chasers: when you’re chasing such a coveted market segment, you have to go big or go home [nauseating technical details for the 2012 C-Class can be found here].
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We are in the 12th. year with the C 43, and it still shakes the house going in and out of the garage. It has been trouble free, gets 24 to 26 mpg. on the highway, and still runs 14 second flat quarter miles with the automatic. We will look at the new one.
MB struggles to balance the entire package and this is what you fight the most when going against the 3 series. Traditionally (and it looks the same here) MB shoves a great massive HP engine in a car that's not well sorted. Kills everything in a straight-line (dragster like), a handful on a road coarse and mediocre as a daily driver