Wagon Wednesday: Official Thread

[Goodspeed]

Speedhunter's Wagon Week

[.RJ]

Let me fix that for you

[V1GiLaNtE]

Rj wins the interwebz today.

[Senor_Taylor]

Is that a weird mutation combination of Brittany Spears and Amy Schumar?

[SlimKlim]

Sweet. Baby. Jesus.

I woke up with the idea of swapping the VW for a W211 E500 Wagon and I cannot get it out of my head.





Almost all of the V8 models came with the Airmatic suspension. You can get a lowering module that retains the height adjustability but just makes all of the settings a little lower. That, plus some wheels, tint, a good paint polish and a couple exhaust cutouts right before the rear-most mufflers would make a $10k wagon look and sound like a million bucks.

[.RJ]

You just sent me down an internet rabbit hole.... but I cant get on board with this - the steering wheel looks turrible.

[Sully]

Are they rare? I feel like a manual would be extremely hard to come by but even a not manual v8 wagon sounds like it'd be kinda rare stateside.

This is a general statement and question as I have done absolutely no research on the matter.

[JPolen01]

This is a general statement and question as I have done absolutely no research on the matter.

I think you should post this in your signature line. It's a good disclaimer for all of your recent posts.

[SlimKlim]

Nah they're actually surprisingly easy to come by. A nationwide autotrader search kicks up about 50, and that's just the E500 V8s, not the AMGs or the 320s. Wasn't sold in a manual obviously, but that's the case for almost all Mercedes since the 70s unless its a base model C-class.

http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/...AGON&Log=0

And yeah the steering wheels are uggo but I've always liked the W211 generation of E-class, one of the best looking Mercedes ever made IMO. Strangely the E55 wheels are slightly more ugly than the regular E500 wheel.

[Sully]

I do everything on my phone or tablet so I never see signatures anymore but you're probably right. I hate searching for things. I also spend all my search time looking for a damn job. Why should I search for things when everyone else already has.

But my other comments recently haven't been like that. It's been awhile since I've asked anything.

[.RJ]

[quote="SlimKlim"And yeah the steering wheels are uggo but I've always liked the W211 generation of E-class, one of the best looking Mercedes ever made IMO. Strangely the E55 wheels are slightly more ugly than the regular E500 wheel.[/quote]

Yep, from the outside they look amazing... I hate that america hates wagons and manual transmissions.

[Sully]

Although it's not the nicest I've seen, the steering wheel doesn't bother me that much at all.

The fact that I'd be in an automatic wagon, and the money I'd have to spend on Mercedes parts would though. Something about the cool aspect of a wagon is that it needs to be manual.

I'm out.

[HAULN-SS]

This Manual all the things movement needs to stop =\ Living with a manual in any kind of traffic at all sucks. There's about zero chance any of those wagons will get on a track, so what's the point for a car like that?

[SlimKlim]

I just don't need a manual in a DD as long as I'm living in NOVA. If the car I really wanted had a manual I'd go back to driving one every day, but I derive precisely zero joy from spending 15 minutes of my 20 minute, 7 mile commute with my foot on the clutch. With 340lbs-ft and 7 gears (in 2005+ models) something tells me it'd scoot along just fine.

And yeah the steering wheel doesn't bother me, if you happen to find one with the wood that matches the trim it actually looks kinda nice in an old man way. Too bad it was mostly the AMGs that came with the ash colored wood, that stuff is gorgeous.

The deal breaker for me on owning one would be parts cost and general reliability. If it held together more or less about as well as the VW I'd be game, which really isn't a very high standard to set. If parts were significantly more expensive or if they had really nasty common issues I'd steer clear. That's what I should spend some time researching.

[CaptainHenreh]

This Manual all the things movement needs to stop =\ Living with a manual in any kind of traffic at all sucks. There's about zero chance any of those wagons will get on a track, so what's the point for a car like that?

What are you a fuckin' commie get the fuck out of this thread.

[.RJ]

This Manual all the things movement needs to stop =\ Living with a manual in any kind of traffic at all sucks. There's about zero chance any of those wagons will get on a track, so what's the point for a car like that?

What are you a fuckin' commie get the fuck out of this thread.

Yeah, seriously. I mean I get the automatic in nova traffic deal (DSG is pretty neat) if you've got another car. After driving the minivan-camino for almost 6 years and not owning anything with a clutch (2 or 4 wheel'ed) for the past 2, anything without 3 pedals is a non-starter for me. But, I've got a short commute and rarely sit in traffic so whatever. Diff'rent strokes.

[Sully]

Yea. What Rex and Rj said. I'm not saying manual everything. An automatic truck is fine (although I'm sure a manual would be fun on occasion) but a sporty car including a sporty wagon would definitely be more enjoyable in manual than an automatic. an automatic wagon is kinda just blah.

I mean what's the point in your caddy being a manual? I could take a wagon on track just as easily as that Cadillac or the ss but that's not why I'd want a manual. It's just more fun to drive on the street if you don't live in a place where you hate yourself every morning you climb into the car.

[ScottyB]

I don't have an issue with hot cars coming with automatics.

i have an issue that they don't also make a manual version. not all of us sit in endless, soul-crushing traffic everyday. as far as i'm concerned, if i have to trade my manual for a slushbox just to make my life bearable, i'm working at the wrong place.

[.RJ]

A 500hp Merc V8 is just the sort of thing that would make a slushbox tolerable, though...

[Apoc]

The answer is obviously that everyone needs two cars.