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Old 11-21-2012, 12:16 PM
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http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...st-ride-review

Looks like a pretty fun little ride. Doubt it makes it's way over though.
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Looks like a Ford Focus.
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About $64K. That sounds reasonable.


My first house cost $62,000.


But this is a Benz, so I get it.
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And if I was 125 years old, a model T would cost me $240 and a house would cost me $5-$6k...

Or, if I moved to Vegas or somewhere in the middle of nowhere where jobs above minimum wage are non-existant I too could buy a house for $60k... LOL

It looks like a luxury version of an STI. MB's response to Audi's RS3. It looks like fun, but not $64k fun... depreciation does wonders to AMG prices.
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Dig the car.

Though I would speculate they wouldn't sell many in the U.S.
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it looks a lot better than i expected.

however. 26 psi turbo on a 2 liter car that costs 60k+?
I guess when you say it that way it kind of sounds like a Mitsubishi FQ400, but its a Mercedes. just seems like a weird direction to try and get a lot of HP out of a 2 liter instead of starting a little bigger and maybe leaving room to grow
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Europe taxes on displacement.
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It won't cost $60K over here. That's a straight pound-to-dollar conversion. The actual car should cost about 2/3 that, probably, so maybe $40K, plus or minus $5K.
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LOL!!! A Subaru STI costs $40K...

There's no way that thing isn't going to have mark up. AMG cars don't sell for less than $60k brand new.

Are you converting to Canadian dollars? I'm not sure how things are priced there, but I thought that for the same car bought in Canada versus the US, it's more expensive in CAN$.

Anyway, no way this thing goes for less than $60K brand new after all the mark up - that's assuming it even makes its way across the pond, which it won't. If the Audi RS3 didn't make it, this thing won't either.
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"U.S. customers, however, won’t get the chance to buy one. But don’t fret: Mercedes will offer this same high-performance AWD 2.0-liter turbo package to American buyers for about $50,000 via the new CLA45 AMG, a swoopy new sedan that debuts a few months later."

isn't C63 AMG start around 60k? so this got to be lower than that. probably around 45k or so with options probably 60k??


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