It wasn’t too long ago that the list of Mercedes buyers looked a lot like the AARP’s membership list. The following review ran on December 7, 1998. I finally got there by going in reverse at an angle. You can either go to the beach OR put the top down, but you can’t do both unless you can somehow fit all of the necessary accouterments inside the car.Īt the camp grounds, I decided to test out the traction control by trying to climb a wet, muddy hill to get to our parking place. On the flip side, we couldn’t put the top down because of all of the cargo in the trunk, which my biggest problem with hardtop convertibles. I offered to drive one of my classmates, and we were able to store all of our camping gear in the tiny 3.7 cubic-foot trunk, which goes to show you that shape is at least as important as actual volume numbers when it comes to cargo stowage. I was also taking a Kung Fu class in the evenings at the time, and the instructor sponsored a camping trip to a site about half-an-hour outside of D.C. I don’t remember it being particular good or bad, which is probably why I didn’t bother to leave my impressions of it below. A lot of reviews at the time criticized it as being rubbery, especially in comparison to the slick units in the Miata, Boxster and Z3. The main reason this SLK was in the press fleet was because Mercedes was pushing the new 5-speed manual that now came standard. Another in a series of my reviews that appeared in the online version of African Americans On Wheels, a now defunct automotive magazine that was included as an insert in the Sunday newspapers of major cities.
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