I'm going to pick this car up later this week (it is in Lugano, so a bit of a hike to get to it). It is a Mercedes C400 4matic T-model. Kind of a sleeper car, as the thing is an AWD car with ~333 hp and can blast to 62 mph in around 4.7 seconds if you set everything to go fast mode and use the launch control system. It is more of a highway cruiser than a sports car replacement, but a sub 5 second wagon is still pretty darn fast. It is a plain Jane model without all the AMG styling stuff stuck on the outside. The sales guy tells me the Swiss models have closer to 355 hp as they have different tuning due to not having to meet strict European Union emissions targets. The build sheet just lists two option codes right next to one another for Swiss Delivery Emissions and M014 enhanced engine performance, so who knows if that is legit or not. I drove a local one and it is stupid fast, so whatever they put in it is good enough for me.
For the car nerds among us, it is a 3.0L V6 intercooled twin turbo engine with a sequential gearbox you can paddle shift if you want to. The AWD system, transmission, and suspension can be set to pretty aggressive sport and sport plus modes if you want that sort of thing. Cool part, though, is that it is a proper station wagon that you an actually haul shit in.
The car is a showroom demo with 20 kilometers on it. In Switzerland, people go to a car dealer, look at a showroom example, then order a car with what they want and wait. At the end of the year, the dealers sell those showroom models at decent discounts. This is one of those cars. If you don't care about specific options/colors, then it is a good way to get a good (by Swiss standards) price on a car. They tend to have weird option mixes, but this one actually is what I would want anyway.
For the car nerds among us, it is a 3.0L V6 intercooled twin turbo engine with a sequential gearbox you can paddle shift if you want to. The AWD system, transmission, and suspension can be set to pretty aggressive sport and sport plus modes if you want that sort of thing. Cool part, though, is that it is a proper station wagon that you an actually haul shit in.
The car is a showroom demo with 20 kilometers on it. In Switzerland, people go to a car dealer, look at a showroom example, then order a car with what they want and wait. At the end of the year, the dealers sell those showroom models at decent discounts. This is one of those cars. If you don't care about specific options/colors, then it is a good way to get a good (by Swiss standards) price on a car. They tend to have weird option mixes, but this one actually is what I would want anyway.
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