I was driving on the freeway on Saturday evening and I inadvertently cut off some dude in a brand new hatchback C230K (I think that's the model #- It is the really ugly 2 door Mercedes hatchback).

Anyhow, the guy gets mad and pulls right up on my tail- like inches away. Normally in this situation, I would just slam my brakes and scare the crap out of him, but I figured I'd give him a run for his money.

I threw it in third gear from an 80 mph roll and punched it. He followed suit, but couldn't keep up. He changed lanes thinking he would try and pass me (I assume), but I still slowly pulled away from him. I shut it down at about 105 mph and he was at least 5 car lengths back.

From what I saw, he was accelerating the whole time. Is this a legit kill? Or should he have smoked me? I have a slightly modded 2K 5 speed. I thought he would have been quicker.

 

Yeah, that's a kill. The new merc 2-door hatch...whatever it is, has a 190hp kompressor engine. 6-spd manual is at LEAST an option. Either way, you out muslce him.

I looked at em cause I thought it would be cool to own a merc, however I think they're total chick cars.

 

Do you mean this thing?



If so, his 2.3L 4-banger (192 @ 5500) was all your before he even showed up at the party.

 

That's it.

But I don't understand what you're saying about a party??

 

The little run you had on the highway = the street race = the party. I meant to say, you had already won the race before he even showed up.

 

He's saying the dude didn't have a chance.

 

Oh, gotcha.

In all honesty, it was more like 7-10 car lengths, but I didn't want to get flamed.

 

sounds right, I raced one of those from a 10mph to 60mph roll his mirror was like @ my hood when we finished & i'm auto.(the guy was 6spd)

 

yeah those benz are an ugly piece of crap.

 

What are the performance stats on these machines?

 

Road and Track has the 0-60 at 7.6, 0-100 at 19.9 and the 1/4 mile at 15.7 @88.9. With a list price of $25,000.

 

auto or 6spd?

 

Those are the six-speed times.

 

I wasn't sure if those were auto or 6 speed b/c I had gotten worried that if that is an auto then it was faster than an auto maxima (2k)

 

damn then my 0-60 time must be lke 7.7/7.8

 

The Kompressor engines are relatively slow (for the price) and surprisingly noisey! You're paying for the status and service of the three pointed star on you hood.

 

yeah they're pretty loud, I heard those ppl driving their cars around the parking lot it sounded like it had a cai or something

 

I wonder how the aftermarket is for those b/c it seems like they would share alot of the same components as the slk 230k. I wonder how they do with a simple pulley swap.

 

nice kill asu.

 

Are those performance numbers for both cars?

 

There is some confusion here!!!!!!

NO E class is in the $25K range.

Let's make sure we are talking about the right models here.

 

We're talking about the C-class hatchback.

 

Kill