Going to be dipping my toes into the new car market for the first time! As much as I love her, she probably won't be around my this coming fall. The wife drives a 2017 Honda Fit (101,000 kms) she bought new before I met her, I'm still daily driving my 2000 Buick LeSabre (280,000 kms), and I have a 1968 Dodge Monaco 500 that's a running, driving restoration project. B-BodyBuick84 Average age of the fleet is 1995.If pricing stays the way that it is, I'll be going the used car route for this second vehicle and will consider an ICE vehicle. Ideally I this would be an electric or hybrid vehicle but this will all depend on what is on the new car market and price. With the price of new vehicles today I plan on adding a second vehicle as my daily commuter next year. I historically would replace my vehichle every 2-3 years. I plan on keeping it as long as I can with 70K miles as of today. Jeffrey My daily commuter purchased new is a 2018 Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited.EAM3 2008 BMW 335i - 57K miles2019 VW Jetta R-Line (wife's) - 39K milesNeither one is going away any time soon.Never again I stay clear of all vehicles that Mitsubishi has had any involvement in developing or producing regardless of the brand they are marketed under. Jeffrey Mitsubishi products, I've owned three Mitsubihi vehicles marketed through Chrysler corporation as Plymouth or Eagle vehichles.In that sense, the C320 Sport is as 'authentic' a Mercedes as anything else the company makes. Sure, the C320 Sport is a car you can drive fast when you have to, but it doesn't do anything to make you want to. How great is that? Not so great if you're an enthusiast. The Merc proved a willing, capable chariot, granting me maximum speed with minimum stress. Sparing no horses, I hustled the C320 Sport homewards. Heading off base, my cell vibrated with news of a domestic crisis requiring immediate shopping. Even if you managed to hit a solid object, the sedan's robust construction would– probably– save your bacon. In fact, you'd have to do something seriously stupid to lose control of the C320 Sport for more than a few seconds. Tony proclaimed the C320 Sport the ideal sports sedan for novice drivers– especially those who view tail out power slides as an open invitation to the emergency room. Switch off the ESP and Nanny's still there, lurking in the background, ending even the most lurid drifts with a brutal snap. Throw the wheel hard over at any speed and she'll understeer, then oversteer, then quickly return you to normal programming. Apply full anchors at 80mph, and she slows to zero in a straight line, through massive puddles, with no hands. The C320 Sport's computerized brain simply won't allow the car to get out of shape. The ritual abuse finally revealed the best that the C320 Sport has to offer: safety. Nothing broke, but it wasn't for lack of trying. We maxed out at 130 and mucked-about with the tip shifter. We slalomed, fish-tailed, donuted and burned rubber. We cranked-it-up, forwards, backwards and sideways with opposite lock and panic stop. We caned the car across the length and breadth of Quonset Point's abandoned runways. It was my final chance to see if the C320 Sport's other virtues somehow masked the soul of a sports car. Tony and I joined forces and had a play in the rain. Still, even with a reasonably powerful, sweet-spinning V6 engine in the engine bay, these attributes don't add up to "sporty". I reckon it's this quartet of characteristics that defines the Mercedes brand, and makes Mercs the logical choice for customers who view driving as a means to an end. The journey to the decommissioned Navy base was almost as revealing as our thrash Olympics.Īs I guided the C320 Sport down I-95 in driving sleet, the car provided rock steady handling, effortless lane changing, perfect comfort and superb visibility. I called my man Anthony Ricci, local instructor of extreme limo driving, and headed for his private playground. At the very least I could determine if the mini-Merc had earned the right to call itself "Sport", and thereby justify its heftier-than-a-Hemi price tag ($38k before tax and toys). I decided to concentrate my efforts on the performance side of the equation.
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