Your fleet running reports

[Jimexpl]

Not mine, but I’m up at my parents for a few days and took my mum’s car for a drive.
She’s not driven for about 8 years, and my Dad probably does about 150 miles a year in it, so at 14 years old it has only done 6,200 miles from new.
I forget what a good car it is - people dismiss SLKs unless they’re AMGs.
It’s only a 200 auto, but shifts along nicely and the gearbox does a decent job of automatically shifting down when braking in sport mode.
The steering is nice (feels hydraulic, rather than electric - should check) handling is great on fairly skinny 17” alloys with a decent sidewall - I ‘expect’ you could travel well over the national speed limit on the local B roads and it soaks everything up while being composed.
It can easily be provoked into nice little slides on second gear corners also.
I doubt the sport suspension / big wheel derivatives drive anywhere near as well.

I drive it so infrequently it surprises me every time!

[Rich B]

Strangely, a girl i work with just bought a 2014 SLK 250d also with only 6k miles on it. it is absolutely pristine!