The five hundred SE has been a long run member of the Jalopy fleet since 2014 and has seen intervals of use and intervals of storage.

It’s been an excellent continental cruiser, okay, driving to France and has been a dependable and trendy solution to get round. I do know because of the quantity of those that take note of it as you rumble gently via cities and villages. Or belt down an Autoroute late for the ferry, once more.

It does every of these duties very well, and it’s really moderately economical, returning a better of 26 mpg and a typical 20 mpg. Which incorporates the rumbling via villages, cities and being late for a ferry.

Excessive pace is handled reasonably effortlessly and quietly too, with the automotive being actually tall geared it does 50 mph in first, 85 in second, 135 in third and as a lot as your license can stand in fourth. The truth is, it’s so quick it brought on delamination of the GB sticker on multiple event. Being late for the ferry is a typical incidence, not attributable to the automotive because it has been completely dependable.