[bcrdukes]

Thanks for sharing! I'm with Badhobz on this one. I have a soft spot for this generation of Mercedes Benz. My cousin has one and I still really like the overall design, interior, reliability in comparison to your examples of a Corolla/Civic, or hell, even an E46.

Ditto on the AMG. Do you really want or need an AMG given the rarity of them and also the additional and unnecessary premiums to insure and maintain a car of this caliber? I think the honest answer is no unless you ABSOLUTELY need to have an AMG model which from what I understand can be VERY expensive to maintain. This is an awesome buy!

Edit: I should mention that manual transmissions on Mercedes Benz sucks ass (at least in North America. I can't speak for RoW cars.) I test drove a rare C-class before getting my 996 and it was easily the worst manual transmission I've ever driven.

Edit 2: You gotta come out to a Stock & Noob meet with it sometime this year!