Yeah, on re-read looks like you’re right. That phrasing’s a little...let’s go with ‘crafty’.

The author mentioned Comfort mode, and the shot of the centre console shows controls similar to the suspension adjustment controller in S205 C-Class, so I’d say it does have the adjustable suspension.

Two points on this autonomous driving malarkey. For context we run a 2015 model C250 C-Class estate with all of Benz’s assists including the active steering/lane keeping plus AEB and radar cruise, as well as a modified 1998 MX-5 that if not attended to by the driver for 5 seconds will cheerfully put itself into a wall:

Which made his choice of a Mercedes CLK Black all the more hilarious

Yeah, across that. I guess the qualifier is  “Oh, it was just out of fuel, it totally wasn’t a mechanical thing”

Same, but our buying history has been Subaru Liberty/Legacies and Merc C-Classes, so the safety thing was kinda covered

I don’t think it was

...that was mostly for the other stuff he did. And boy, was that wild ride...

We had a Gen IV 2.5i manual Legacy (Liberty) wagon that I’d done a few little mods to - lower control arm kit with strut brace (which fixed the steering), some stiffer anti-roll bars which took the roll load off the springs so it actually rode better, plus poly bushings and some adjustable Koni yellows - easily the…

Considering the shape’s 5 years old, it’s held up pretty well.

Wow. You know this means you can never see another Peter Jackson or Taika Waititi film, yeah? 

It’s a spiritual successor to the Gen IV Legacy 2.5 GT wagon - it’s roughly the same size.

Mitsubishi’s small commercial van (the Express) had a five speed column shift. At the family gas station it was referred to as “Gear Lotto” as on the odd numbered side of the shift you were never sure if it was 3rd, 5th or 1st.

Yeah, we went from an S204 to an S205 C-Class and much as I love the tech, presentation and relative ‘light footedness’ of the 205, it doesn’t have the bank vault quality of the 204

WE TRIED TO STOP IT BUT IT OVERPOWERED US!

I was fortunate enough to see those things in their full season debut in Richards’ and Skaife’s hands in 1992 at Sandown. The R31/R32 had actually won the ATCC in Richards’ hands the previous year’s series at the back end of the Sierra Cosworth’s long domination of Group A.
I’ve never seen cars launch off the line like…

Well, nice to see he’s the kind of bloke who’d stick around and to the right thing by his partner.

I seem to recall some concept drawings similar to this being the subject of “coupe to slot in under the 86" stories some time in the last year or so.

“Should we move the chrome strip down to the top of the grille?”

What it immediately reminded me of was the DF8-90 from Grand Theft Auto IV