Driven #44:- Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG W218

I didn’t do more than 80 on my trip today. I didn’t explore any challenging back roads, didn’t test the standing start acceleration, didn’t even stuff it into a roundabout at Nurburgring speeds. I didn’t need to.

Not so long ago I drove a CLS 350 with the CGi Petrol engine, and spurted much prose in its general direction; claiming that it’s the best car to drive in the CLS Range. Well; it isn’t. Not by a long way. Today I had the enviable task of delivering a customer his brand new, 20 miles on the odometer, CLS 63 AMG.

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Driven #41:- Mercedes CLS 350CGi

 
A customer of ours lives in a beautiful, detatched 1930s house in a leafy part of Berkshire. It’s on a big plot, has glorious period details and a spacious interior layout. It’s, basically, my dream house; except for the small detail that it’s being demolished later this year.

A wealthy man, he has decided that, as nice as his house is, he could do better. He owns the land, so he can choose what to put on it; probably some identikit catalogue mansion, straight out of Footballers Wives. Sadly, as much as the old adage rings true not to fix what ain’t broke, sometimes change for the sake of change is inevitable. So to the Mercedes-Benz CLS.

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