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Photos/Specs/Info on the 55 AMG please, the guy who bought my and Ian's ex A8/S8 hybrid upgraded to the same car, what is so great about these cars that are making D2 owners change? I did consider an E55 AMG before I started searching for an RS 6, but the insurance was £1k more and I heard they had problems putting the power down in even damp conditions. Would love to own one someday, not sure I will though. If that makes sense.
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SL55 AMG. Awesome awesome machine.
Wanted one for years. |
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Ha ha, there's always someone worse off I guess
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Yeah baby!! 2002 Aqua Blue S8 with Milltek - Now sold SL55 AMG Silver with designo red leather and 20" Carlsson 1/16 Utlralight Wheels |
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Your friend is very kind with his comments. To be fair, I looked at plenty of cars before I settled on this one - some much higher spec. I bought on condition and service history. The mileage was, to be fair irrelevant, it just happened to be one of the cars I saw with lower mileage, but not the lowest. The colour was also a deciding factor; I have a friend with a D2 S8 that he has owned since it was six months old, and only on 25k miles as i type! Volcano black, so I figured if I bought a black one too, he would get a bit freaked out! I did, however, spend a week on the car before I was happy with how it looked once I got it. I'm a bit anal like that, and am starting to do the same to the SL. Two V8s? Hmm, as much as I'm tempted by that, SWMBO would never allow that!
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Yeah baby!! 2002 Aqua Blue S8 with Milltek - Now sold SL55 AMG Silver with designo red leather and 20" Carlsson 1/16 Utlralight Wheels |
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+1
Driven a D3 W12 and S8, and as lovely as they are, the driver involvement just isn't there IMO. That's why I ended up copying my friend and buying a D2 myself.
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If I could get £8k for the car, given the condition/money spent, then I would sell it. To be honest, I'm thinking of keeping it given the stupid prices they are going for. Not trying to blow my own trumpet, but you simply cannot put this car into the same catagory as what else is available for sale 90% of the time. I could take off the wheels/tyres, milltek and sell them seperately I guess - put some boggo standard 18s and budget tyres on it, and put it up for sale for £6.5k.
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I'm smitten The power and the noise this thing makes is something else I was lucky in as much that this car comes with an extremely rare set of 20" Carlsson alloys too. I bought it to tidy up and sell on TBH, but I'm so smitten with it, I have started to think about selling the S8 now. That's how good the car is! It's in the garage having a deep clean at the moment. I haven't been able to wash the outside since I picked her up due to the weather, and she's covered in road salt from my three hour drive from picking her up. I'll get some photos up as soon as I can tho
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Now that I have had first hand experience of one of these, I can only agree with that statement!
I was one of the few nutters driving around with the roof down this last few days!
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Yeah baby!! 2002 Aqua Blue S8 with Milltek - Now sold SL55 AMG Silver with designo red leather and 20" Carlsson 1/16 Utlralight Wheels |
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