From the March 1999 issue of Car and Driver. What do a cherry-red SLK230 and a base C-class sedan have in common?" asked an Acura salesman in Ohio. "One's a roadster, the other's a toaster." This ...

It doesn't sound like a Mercedes," opined my passenger. She had a point. The supercharged, sixteen-valve, 1.8-liter DOHC in-line four in the C230 Kompressor has the aural quality of a vacuum cleaner.

Not long after the 20th century transitioned into the 21st century, Mercedes Benz introduced to the world the C230 Kompressor sport coupe — a svelte, sexy automobile that one reviewer called “the ...

This sort of thing is very common on Mercedes-Benz cars built from around 1998 to around 2004. It was a period when Mercedes body preparation hit the pits. They call the thing that collapsed a 'spring ...