Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Most probably a repost, but I find the Merc 190 E 2.5-16 Evo II attractive in a brutal way.

It's funny your choice in cars mate. 6/7 years ago you could have picked up a 300SL for relatively reasonable money. If I remember correctly 70/80K would have picked up a decent example. Then (think it was) AutoCar did a piece (not that this was the trigger) on them and virtually overnight the prices went sky-rocketting and last year they were selling anywhere up to £650K. I'd take the roadster version over the gull-wing every day of the week though. Far more beautiful lines in my opinion.

The evo 2 is just the perfect Mercedes for car collectors,outrageaous only for a Benz,but it's only an overwinged slow piece of crap.
Would anybody rather drive it instead of an E30 M3?

2 years ago at Le Mans classic there was a German guy who brought and had sessions with his mat Black 300SL,that's outrageous(had a "colour" coded SLS in the paddock as well)