Remember the 3.5-litre, rear-drive, Mercedes hatchback? Not many do. Now it's £4k...
Mercedes is now legendary for its ability to cram cars into niches that don’t seem to exist. Only Benz could have made cars like the R63 AMG , the Maybach S-Class, the V12-engined SLs and so on. They’re still at it today in fact, with cars like the seven-seat GLB 35 AMG, the pair of CLA Shooting Brake models, and the almighty. They must all sell in tiny numbers, yet Mercedes persists.
The niche busting is brilliant news for the secondhand buyer, too, as it means all manner of curios crop up a few years down the line. The C350 Sports Coupe is the perfect example of that. Nobody really needed a small hatchback-cum-coupe with a 3.5-litre V6 and 272hp, but Mercedes made one anyway. Very few were sold yet now the C350 is rare, interesting, fast and flippin cheap -Some background on the C-Class Sports Coupe, first off.
Anyway, the C-Class in question. The C350 arrived in 2005 to replace the C320 that had served as the flagship at launch, but it was much more than a mid-life facelift. The switch from 3.2-litres to 3.5-litres meant a healthy jump in power from 218hp to 272hp, which would be competitive in a hot hatch today. Crucially, it made the Sports Coupe more powerful than both the BMW 130i and Audi A3 3.2.
But it was expensive, making the C350’s task even harder when a lot of people coveted the Sports Coupe just for the three-pointed star - a C180 sufficed for most. Back in 2005 it was £28,000, or £45k in today’s money. Which makes this one look even more tempting at less than £4k. Yes, you’ll have to pay the more expensive road tax and, yes, this probably still counts as Merc’s less than brilliant build quality era, but don’t forget about the good stuff.
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