
I haven't seen or heard from Kathie since 1999. Thursday, out of the blue, I got a call from her. "I'm coming to see you Friday. If you already have plans, change them." Uh, OK.
Kathie likes cars. She's not a car geek, but her first car was a hand-me-down from her parents, a Jaguar XJ6. Her first new car was an Acura Integra.
She's now driving a 2003 Mercedes Benz C230 Coupe.
We decided to take her car and go to Vermont, about an hour north of here. I drove. From Vermont we went to Newburyport, MA. From Newburyport, we wound up in Bourne, MA, aborting a plan to go to Cape Cod. From Bourne we took backroads through Rhode Island and Connecticut, until we got back to Massachusetts.
So why am I telling you all this? Because we did over 300 miles in 7 hours, including stops. All on different types of roads. All in the C230. I drove the whole time. I had never driven a C230. I had never driven any supercharged car before.

Best of all, used Mercedes-Benz C230 2.3L Kompressor Sports Coupes don't sell for a lot of money.
I thought I knew what I wanted to get when the time came to finally give up my BMW. Now I'm not so certain.
The car pictured above is located at a dealer in Fallston, MD. It has 89,000 miles on it. The asking price is $10,995.00
Click here to see the AutoTrader.com listing.
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