Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino and today I wanna show you there's no need to spend a lot of money to have fun with a car.
Can you believe the AMG behind me costs like a city car?!
Depreciation, is it or isn't it a beautiful thing?
As I already disclosed in the video, the AMG driving today costs the equivalent of a city-car.
Nowadays cars so powerful and sadly also expensive to maintain are available on the market for very convenient prices,
if you're a car enthusiast and want to spend a little to buy a fun and powerful car well, the Mercedes E55 AMG is one of those.
If you remember, recently I got to drive the Mercedes SLR McLaren and this E-Class is from the same period,
and just like the SLR, also the design of this generation of this E-Class is not only beautiful but also aged very nicely
and call me crazy but I prefer the design of this generation rather than the current one.
I think it's a car with a great personality, if you take a current E-Class and put it next to a C and S-Class, honestly I can't recognize them they look all the same!
And this E-Class is able to go unnoticed, obviously the enthusiast recognize it immediately by the wheels and 4 exhaust tips,
obviously also when you smash the foot on the throttle!
Because for the price of a city car you bring home also a angry exhaust note,
in front we have a massive 5.5L V8 with a huge supercharger!
And even though we're talking about a more than 14 years old car, the figures are still respectable!
475hp and be ready, 700nm of torque! the SLR I recently drove had 780nm!
So if you need to move and dislocate the house, this car is perfect to tow it, it has a monster torque!
Not to mention the angry exhaust note, typical from AMG!
So for about 15.000€ - because that's the average price of a second hand E55 - you take home not only a high performance saloon car -
0-100kph in about 4,7s - but you take home a saloon that is luxurious and comfy.
This one is full option, double sunroof, electric seats, massage seats and a feature I like very much
is the fact the seat is adaptive, the side inflate or deflate depending the cornering behaviour of the car so you don't move too much in the corners,
these seats are very comfy and also very sporty.
It's a vicious engine!
Thanks to the supercharger you have lots of power and torque since the low revs,
just like any real AMG whenever you smash the foot on the throttle you see the traction control light blip!
Sadly I have to say just like on the SLR, a defect of this car is the gearbox, not just because it has the same paddles - that are not paddles but buttons -
but it's the same 5-speed transmission that is not very immediate in the gear change, in fact you drive a car like this only in automatic, in manual it would be a pity.
It's a 5-speed and the choice of Mercedes to use this gearbox is that this transmission is very strong and can hold effortlessy the monster torque of this car.
For example we find this gearbox also on the old Maybach that had a twin-turbo V12 with even more torque!
If you're not afraid to stop often at the gas station, well of course with such a big engine forget about fuel economy, this one does on the average 4-5km per litres no more than that but
if you spend a little for a powerful car you can consider to spend a bit for the fuel!
The problem is that this car doesn't have only a high fuel consumption, but if you have the habit to drive with the electronics off
probably the tire wear is higher than the fuel consumption!
Even with the electronics on it slides anyway, did you hear the powerslide?
We can define it an old-school AMG, very brutal with a not so refined eletronics,
if you turn the eletronics off it just keeps spinning, with the eletronics on you feel it's a bit invasive and doesn't let you unleash fluenty the power,
but it's funny!
It goes, it really goes!
Incredible to think that nowadays with the money of a city car you can buy a car so complete and powerful
and I'm not talking just about the E55, as you can see in the 15k € range you can find cars like the old BMW M5, an old S-Class AMG, Audi S8,
they're cars expensive to maintain but if you find a car that had a proper maintenance, it's in perfect conditions why not, go for it!
The E55 I'm driving that belongs to my friend next to me, he bought the car with more than 200.000km but it's a car
with 1 owner from new, always serviced, kept in mint conditions and it's a car that if kept with good care it can do a lot more kilometers.
It's a sporty sedan but I have to say that even at low speed in the city it's very pleasant to drive, the steering is soft, the air suspensions are very comfy,
if you're looking for one of these you have to check the air suspensions because if they cause problems or they need to be replaced they can be pricey
but in general, we're talking about a german car with a big engine, it's a very solid and reliable car.
The funny thing is whenever I smash the foot on the throttle, the crowd turn their head and look around, they hear this noise but they don't understand where does it comes from!
Because as I mentioned it's a very discreet car!
Fantastic!
To all those italians that at this point of the video are looking on the internet the prices for one of these well,
maybe the most annoying expense is (as always) the annual car tax and superbollo because on a car like this, even though you pay
this car is so discreet this idiot didn't see us and we almost hit him!
What an idiot!
I was saying - between annual car tax and superbollo this car costs about 2200€ per year, it's not cheap considering you them for 15.000€ if you include also
fuel, maintenance you can easily spend every year about 30% of the purchase cost.
But I have to be honest, I'd love to have this as a 3rd car, the 500 as a daily, the sports car (now the M3) and also this for the weekend, it would be very funny!
My local gas station would be very happy!
You see my smile? There's no need to spend lots of money on a car to have fun! This old E-Class is the evidence, so funny!
Let's say this car is designed for the german autobahn, on the straight line it's an engine with such power and fluidity up to the redline that is crazy!
It never stops to deliver power, it's really angry and evil!
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thank you Ale for letting me drive the E-Class, and as always thanks for watching, ciao!