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Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class 280 road test

Written By Lee Sibbald Published On: May 08 2009

Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class 280 road test The Mercedes SLK is a car that is a strange phenomenon, positioned by the maker as a roadster, it is aimed at sports car enthusiasts. This is fine when you look at the car in isolation but put it in a group of vehicles in the same sector and you feel that this car has been misplaced. We put the SLK through its paces…

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As I said above, the SLK is just not a genuine sports car. The feeling you get is wrong, this is not to say it is a bad car, in fact it is a really ‘nice’ car to drive but this is the problem…when was a vehicle aimed at the sports car enthusiast ‘nice’ to drive. Under the bonnet the SLK 280, which we had on test had a 3.0-litre V6 engine with an output of 231bhp. If you drive the SLK 280 with a manual box, you could do the zero to 62mph sprint in 6.3 seconds, opt for the automatic ‘box and the zero to 62mph sprint time will be 6.2 seconds. The top speed of the Mercedes SLK 280 is limited at 155mph.

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