1996 C180 sport Auto

AdrianC

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Replies 7 and 8 suggest its an AMG the way I read them?

No. The only AMG back then was the C36.

Well rather than argue about it maybe the OP can tell us exactly what car it is.

He already did. C180 Sport, with an autobox.

Robisere

ShandyAndy wrote: »

Seen this advertised locally, looks really clean on the photos, 151k, £1200 , are these vehicles reliable?

23 years ago they might have been, and for a few years after. Nowadays, not so much.

EdGasketTheSecond

Sport appears to be aka Esprit from what I can make out so if it isn't an AMG then it is way overpriced. The Sport/Esprit just have hard/lowered suspension and carbon-fibre effect trim.

AdrianC

Esprit was to Sport what Classic was to Elegance, from what I remember.

Low spec/high spec
Low suspension/high suspension

From what I remember, never mind a head unit - stereo wiring/aerial/speakers were an expensive option... The good ol' days of Merc price lists! Still, at least it was before the rot set in (literally) with the amazing dissolving W210 E-class.

onomatopoeia99

It's a 23 year old car. How reliable do you expect that to be? Pot luck when things will go wrong at that age.

I drive a 19 year old car which has proved very reliable, but I've owned it for the last 15 of those years and I know it gets all of its mechanicals properly looked after. Even so I expect failures at some point. According to the internet the RMS and IMS should both have failed by now, at vast cost to me ...