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.