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Old 05-11-2017, 01:43 PM   #24
Nick M3
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Originally Posted by Theo View Post
I actually prefer the 01's with the AMG appearance pkg. The beefy staggered 5 stars really set it off. What exactly did they do to the suspension in the later years to make it sloppy like you said?
I don't know. All I know is that we had a '97 and an '01. The '97 drove better in every way (it also had a meaningfully better engine - MB severely value engineered them for '99, so they went from DOHC to SOHC). It may even have been a very similar suspension and that the AMG wheels were too much tire for it. Whatever it was, though, the '01 was sloppy and the '97 wasn't.

I also prefer the 16" wheels on it. It's a car that shouldn't have too much wheel or tire on it. It doesn't look right.
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