Need to buy one - Dilema

[Mike R]

Originally Posted by supaer

i am defo going to pull the plug soon and it will be used regularly only a garage queen during the week.

The only slight concern i have is speed, the M4 is quick and before that i had the c63 and i know the csl is slower and older but there is just something about it that makes me love it so much!!

The CSL is not about straight line speed, it is about CARRYING speed.

If you have bought it as a road car, you may feel let down speed wise compared to the two cars you mention (from a point and squirt view).

However, stick them on the track (specifically the Nurburgring) and the CSL comes alive. It is 2s a lap faster around the Nordschleife than the M4 and 11s faster than the C63. Not bad for a car with significantly less power and nearly 15 year old technology.

The CSL is a scalpel compared to the other two cars sledgehammer power delivery. Don't get me wrong, it will still spin the wheels up in 4th gear with the traction control off in the wet (especially in temps below 10°C on the fabled (wet) traction limited Cups), but it has a pussy cat power delivery compared to the turbo grunt of the M4 and big capacity power of the C63. This makes it far more exploitable on the limit, but at the expense of the low speed "shock and awe" of the above cars.

Obviously the M4 sounds like an appliance as well and needs an exhaust system to wake it up, but the Merc sounds nice in a NASCAR type way (especially with an aftermarket exhaust). The CSL sounds like an angry wasp as standard, but has that unique buzz-saw intake noise to compensate and a Supersprint system just gives it that added something extra .