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Weren’t you musing over a twin engine Volvo a few years ago?
I know 400bhp isn’t much these days but V90s are handsome. I’ve not driven one but I bet they still feel good inside.
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Weren’t you musing over a twin engine Volvo a few years ago?
I know 400bhp isn’t much these days but V90s are handsome. I’ve not driven one but I bet they still feel good inside.
My van is the sensible car, the 996 is the "never leaves the garage, lives under a sheet" car, so the (potential) C63 would be the silly runabout.
I think I've realised that a very large part of the appeal is the noise, and a 6.2 litre NA V8 with a somewhat rude exhaust should do well in that department.
Dammit
I went to see a couple of cars this morning, firstly this CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake, which I was a bit unsure of looks-wise as it can, I think, look great from some angles and terrible from others. This one had an all-the-toys spec, including the radar-cruise control that I would like for French auto-routes. However, it suffers from the same offset steering wheel as my old E63, so I think I'm going to say it's a no to that whole platform.
I then looked at this C63 AMG Estate, which felt like it was from a very different era to the CLS, much more basic- very similar to my old C55 AMG Estate frankly, but hopefully without the laundry list of maintenance items that that had when I got it. I quite liked it, but it missed a service (it seems) in 2019 which isn't great. Steering wheel is in the correct place though, which is good.
I think, therefore, that something based on the C-Class platform is what I'm looking for, and I also think that having tried the C55 and the E63 I'd like something with a large displacement and no turbochargers, so the 6.2 V8 for preference.