2008 Mercedes-Benz A170 Classic review

George (‘Dubya’) Bush once quipped: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” I pondered such (mangled) wisdom when I bought my second A-Class, although this time a W169 (or is that a ‘Dubya 169’) A170 instead of a W168 A160. In 2008 I bought a 1999 A160 – the W168 which was the same model that failed the ‘moose test’ by rolling onto its side – and it was so horribly bad it made me swear never to buy another A-Class. Which I didn’t until, that is, I did. You see, for all the W168’s awfulness, it had one redeeming quality. My wife liked it. She liked its compact size in parking, the fact it was a Benz, and that it wasn’t too ostentatious. She liked it so much this meant, when the automatic ‘box was about to pass away to mechanical heaven, we coerced the car to a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Sydney around 2010 and traded it in for the next model; the W169 A170 that I still own and which… Read full this story

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