MaxPallas
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- Your Mercedes
- CLS Shooting Break,/2016/350
I had a SAAB 9-5 Aero estate for 12 years, great car to drive, incredible performance in its manual guise, but age took its toll, after almost 200,000 miles it was time for a change, but what will fit the bill? No more SAAB, so I'll "upgrade" I hope that is the correct term without insulting too many SAAB owners, to a CLS Shooting Brake, 350 AMG. Its a 2014 model, with just 20,000 miles, and a snip at something like £30,000 below the new price. That's a whopping depreciation. I hope that it stops after three years! Initial impression is not quite as favourable as I had hoped. Sure, its a luxurious good looking vehicle, but in automatic mode, it somehow lacks the driveability of the old SAAB. I now have an extra 2 cylinders, and 700cc and on paper, another 18 BHP, and almost 50% more torque. I want to love it, maybe our relationship will grow as I get used to it. In Eco mode, the turbo lag is quite a drag, I think it's better in Sport, I need to test it some more to be sure. I've no idea how anyone can achieve the claimed 50 mpg, I've averaged around 35, and I don't hammer it like I did the SAAB that I got around 28 mpg (petrol). It seems that I've exchanged my "rally car" a real wolf in sheeps' clothing, for a vehicle better suited to "driving Miss Daisy" and a sheep looking like a wolf. I hope that I'm proven wrong as our relationship blooms. One last niggle, the COMAND looks good, but the audio quality doesn't have the "edge" the "wow factor" that the SAAB Harmon-Kardon unit had. Time will tell. Wish me luck for my investment.