Mercedes-Benz C-Class C180K SE 4dr
Mercedes-Benz C180K SE 4dr
What is it?
“The first step on the Mercedes-Benz saloon ladder. This is the petrol SE model with a supercharged engine (the Kompressor or in the car C180K designation). The supercharger provides useful low-down acceleration for urban traffic conditions. The on the road price starts at £23,400 for this model.
What’s Hot?
- Supercharged engine provides useful around town low-speed go
- Sounds decently sporty when revved, too
- Steering is beautifully precise and weighted
- Feel-good factor of hewn-from-granite construction
- Hill start assist works unobtrusively
- (ie saves clumsy fiddling with the foot-operated handbrake on a hill)
- Composed ride soaks up most bumps and thumps
- Lots of safety kit, including anti-skid and stability control
- And a good roster of standard spec includes
- climate control, four electric windows, 16-inch alloys
- Highly efficient but optional (£605) Parktronic parking sensor system
What’s Not?
- Jerky transmission shunt when pulling away in low gears
- so optional five-speed auto (£1125) is worth it
- Wind noise from front pillar on motorway
- Lack of fold-through facility from boot
Business Car Manager Verdict:
This is a very classy car. It might be the first rung on the Benz saloon ladder but the Mercedes C180K SE doesn’t feel like it. However, the car fine composure gets mislaid somewhat with that jerky transmission acceleration from standstill consider an auto if you can afford it. The C180K also works well as a business car you’ll pay less in company car tax than the equivalent C200 diesel.
