Good inputs, and it was a rear wheel drive hatch, which was unique and fun. It was interesting to see the difference between how you were immediately sized up exiting a brand new Merc(even this one), rather than exiting your 1989 Honda Accord Lxi(which was awesome).Īnyway, this car, while not great, was a very good driver. So very poor, and driving around a brand new Merc was awesome. We won that car and drove it for the next 2 years. It was being raffled off, and I bought a ticket… you probably know where this is going. Mostly intending to stare at things we could not afford, including a brand new blue Merc C230 Kompressor parked inside the mall. My wife and I, newly married, like 6 months married, both students and very poor, happened into a local shopping mall. Ouch! A sad end to a rare-but-not-valuable Mercedes-Benz coupe in Cubanite Silver paint. shoppers who can tolerate coupes and want high-end European iron tend to want something both faster and more flashy. American-market sales suffered the same fate as those of the affordable BMW 318ti hatchback of previous decade, as U.S. These cars were cheap by Mercedes-Benz standards, with C230 Kompressor Sport Coupe MSRPs starting at $25,670 (just a bit under $35,000 in 2017 inflato-bucks). Some of these bits will live on in other C-Classes. The interior still has some good stuff, and I don’t see the BIOHAZARD stickers slapped on by tow-truck crews who find icky bodily fluids after a bad wreck. I think a ratty late-1970s Fiat 124 Sport Spider would be fun with this powertrain.
2004 MERCEDES C230 KOMPRESSOR SPORT MANUAL
If I ever see one of these C230 Kompressors in such a place, with the engine in good shape and the six-speed manual transmission behind it, I will be tempted to buy parts for a stupid engine swap. Some junkyard shopper has grabbed the blower, a move I understand very well. Here’s one that crashed hard and now ends its days in a Denver-area junkyard.įor 2003, this car had a supercharged, all-aluminum four-cylinder engine that displaced 1.8 liters and made 189 horsepower. For this reason, I see more S-Classes than C-Classes in big self-service wrecking yards, and the coupe version of the W203 is an especially unusual Junkyard Find. European luxury cars depreciate quickly once they leave the hands of careful first and second owners and start being treated like throwaway rusty Chevy Malibus or Daewoo Leganzas.
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