:)

[paladin]

[dazza]

Are there any more songs with Mercedes-Benz references in ???

Yes, 'Sex Drive' by Pete Burns: "I'm a Mercedes-Benz so won't you jump on in, i've got a rear view mirror you can watch us in..."
and perhaps most famously 'Mercedes Benz' by Janis Joplin (later covered by Melissa Etheridge).

[paladin]

[JayKay]

My favourite car line in a song has to be "I drive a Rolls Royce 'cause it's good for my voice" (T-rex, Children of the revolution)

[turbozutek]

Pity Mercedes (In common with most german cars) reliability rating has plumeted in recent years...



Why use one bolt if you can use seven engineering is letting them down.

Chris...

[paladin]

[turbozutek]

Some fed up Americans would beg to differ:

http://www.mercedes-benz-usa.com/

Always a good laugh to see someone who pays as much for a car as a small house, only to have it fall apart at motorway speed.



Chris...

[paladin]

[Apollo]

I think I would dread going to work if I was a vehicle service manager in America, having to deal with the owners.

I once travelled with a guy that couldn't understand the concept of maintaining his car in any way between services. At the start of a 300 mile journey, I got him to pull into the first service station I saw, as I reckoned the engine wasn't going to make it. Sure enough, we only got back underway after I poured almost 4 pints of oil into the thing.

Inside and outside though, his car shone like a new pin.

He did get a Merc once, shortly after the jumping windscreen wiper was introduced. No problems, but the day before he got rid of it, I borrowed it for a long day trip (900+ miles). The windscreen wiper jumped right off the arm and disintegrated, fortunately in a London car park, and I was able to put the bits back together. Wasn't the wipers fault, but the switch seemed intermittent, so the wiper would start and stop very quickly, and I think it just shook itself to pieces when combined with the jumping motion.

His mate was the same, and almost wrote off an engine when the little ends gave out due to lack of lubrication.

[duncan]

when the little ends gave out due to lack of lubrication.

i hate it when that happens

[paladin]

[Apollo]

Best bit was when he was waiting for the Merc engine/gearbox to do the forward/reverse selection before he could move

I've owned a similar combination that used an MB box, and he wasn't kidding. It's a real embarrasment if you're in a hurry

[paladin]

[scotia47]

The SLK is some beast.

Indeed. Shame about the artificial 155mph speed restriction. Out of principle, I would never touch a car handicapped in this manner, regardless of how good it was otherwise.

As well as Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Jaguar and Nissan (and Volkswagen too?) impose 155mph restrictions on their high-performance vehicles. Something to do with the German Green Party...?

[Apollo]

All the fun of a Brabus, without the price tag, and the styling is just soooo much better than the old model, it almost looked as if it was apologising all the time.

Punching some power in actually helped speed it up, but jamming 300 BHP through an auto box I would have to pay to have repaired was something of a disincentive, so the 2 second wait always won

Wasn't a flak jacket, unfortunately they weren't firing real bullets, and he was wearing a sensor array that used lasers on the rifles to determine if/where he was hit.

Makes you think of the old firing squad days, where one rifle would be loaded at random with blanks. New spin on it if they'd loaded one rifle at random with live rounds to make this more interesting