**A Closer Look at the Mercedes-AMG SLC**

Driving the Mercedes-AMG SLC is an experience unlike any other, but beneath its sleek exterior lies a complex web of features and functionalities that can make or break your ownership experience. As we delved into the world of this sports car, it became clear that the dynamic handling package was a must-have to elevate the driving dynamics from merely good to exceptional.

The Dynamic Handling Package is an optional feature that adds just above suspension, sharper steering, and a more responsive feel to the car's overall performance. It's a game-changer, and we wholeheartedly recommend investing in it if you want to get the most out of your SLC experience. With this package, the car transforms from merely sporty to downright exhilarating.

One aspect that really stood out during our test drive was the driving modes available on the car. The Driving Select feature allows drivers to switch between different modes with ease, offering a seamless transition from comfort mode to Sport Plus and beyond. The exhaust note also changes depending on the mode selected, becoming more raucous and aggressive in Sport Plus mode.

However, there's one feature that we couldn't help but feel was a bit of an annoyance: the roof mechanism. To open or close the roof, drivers must come to a complete stop, which can be a major inconvenience. Once started, however, the process is relatively smooth, although it does require a brief period of inactivity.

When it comes to driving on the motorway with the roof down, we were pleasantly surprised by how quiet and relaxing the experience was. The metal roof provides an impressive level of sound insulation, making it feel like you're driving a coupe rather than an open-top roadster.

Under the hood, the Mercedes-AMG SLC boasts four different petrol engines and one diesel option. Our particular test car was equipped with the 2.0-liter turbocharged petrol engine, which churns out 45 horsepower and sprints from naught to 60 in just 5.6 seconds. The pedal shift 9-speed automatic gearbox provides seamless shifting and makes the most of this engine's capabilities.

However, there are some areas where the SLC falls short. One notable annoyance is the infotainment system, which fails to line up centrally with the center console. This creates an unbalanced look that's more akin to a cheap interior than a premium car like the SLC. Additionally, the visors could be larger and more effective at blocking out wind and sun.

The optional Magic Sky Roof is a nice touch, offering a sun blind built into the glass. Electric operation makes it easy to open or close, and the fact that it's available on all SLC models is a welcome feature.

Other features like Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are standard across most SLC models, ensuring seamless integration with your smartphone. The audio system is also noteworthy, boasting 10 speakers in some configurations and delivering an impressive sound quality.

When it comes to pricing, the Mercedes-AMG SLC offers incredible value for money. While the base price starts at around £32,000, buyers can often snag deals that bring the price down to as low as £23,000. And with discounts available through websites like CarWow, it's not uncommon to find this car listed for around £41,000 – a staggering saving of nearly 40% off the list price.

Finally, there's the matter of the badge itself. With its large "AMG" logo emblazoned on the front and rear of the car, this is undoubtedly a car that wears its heart on its sleeve. Whether you like it or not, however, this is a Mercedes-Benz that's unapologetically sporty – and that's something to be commended.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, while the Mercedes-AMG SLC has its quirks and annoyances, it remains an exceptional sports car that offers incredible value for money. With discounts available on many models, it's never been a better time to consider this car. Whether you're looking for a weekend plaything or a daily driver with a sporty edge, the SLC is well worth considering.

We'd recommend giving it a test drive and seeing how it feels for yourself – just be prepared for some minor annoyances along the way. With the right spec and pricing, this car can be an absolute steal. So if you're in the market for a sports car that's both fun to drive and affordable, look no further than the Mercedes-AMG SLC.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the Mercedes SL C and it's the perfect car for British summers because you can enjoy it with the roof down on the rare occasions that it is certainly like today but when it's raining you can put the roof up and you effectively turn the car into a coupe eight rather than a normal rag top convertible there you go look clever a folding metal roof all very nice now this car starts from 32,000 pounds which seems like quite a lot of money considering it's quite old now but if you click up there you can get a Colorado dot uk' and you can see some incredible deals on this car let's check out the inside now one of the reasons I wanted to put the roof up was to show you how much space there is in here when you're going about in coop a style so look at this the seat does go back quite a long way so even if you're very tall you should be fine and there is lots of adjustment in the steering world as well I got decent Headroom if you're large you're still gonna be firing this car whereas you're probably fine a bit less squeezing some think such as the cheaper master mx-5 terms of the quality well it's not too bad this is one of Mercedes older cars like I said but the materials are still pretty nice and it all feels solid there are a few things which aren't so nice though and that's like the dolls head these just feel cheap and nasty also the layer to this console here with all the buttons and stuff it's just looking a little bit old-fashioned now nice brings some to the trim level so there's anyone AMG line and in some ways it's well-equipped and in other ways it's not so well equipped for instance you don't get satellite navigation as standard on any car it's an option on this particular model so if you want the command the top-of-the-range system it's 2,000 pounds you can get a cheaper Becca version but that's not particularly nice to use actually this command online system isn't all that great to use it either can't get a little bit confusing now you look at there see for yourself watch my in-depth video review at the infotainment system of this car doing of options this particular car Messiah now has 16,000 pounds worth of options on it such as these lovely nappa leather seats as standard you get fake leather you get Mercedes aunt eco letter and it's actually alright terms of could be spaces we don't expect much in a car this size do you and do too much I've got some cup holders here got some store they're exactly all right the glovebox is a decent size and there are some extendable door pockets there which will take a bottle just don't leave it open otherwise it's gonna drip it on the floor and there's some more storage there as well speaking of storage let's move on to the boot and see what that's like so the capacity is actually pretty good for a sporty car such as this if you have a look inside you'll see there's plenty of space there and because this one hasn't got a spare wheel there is some more storage under there if you need it now I've got to fit this regretting doing that now all right so yeah the boot is pretty large however you have to be careful what you take if you want to put the roof down at any point because when you put the roof down you have to make sure that everything fits under this cover because the roof mechanism goes on top of that there now I'm going to show you that by lowering the roof it's all quite elegant really isn't it just have anything goes wrong with it because that could be expensive to fix right there we go so now I'm gonna show you you see the roofs on top of it there and you're pretty wondering how the heck do I get this out of there I'm not gonna go through the procedure of putting the roof back up but that's kind of what I need to do anyway if you want more detail about this cars practicality click up there to watch my detail practicality video you'll see how much stuff you can fit into this car boot and that's pretty much it because there not much else to show right then that's the practical stuff dealt with now it's time to hit the road the SLC is quite easy car to drive in town so while he may sit alone you've got a big long bonnet it's quite easy to tell where the corners of the car are so that makes it easy to maneuver in traffic so if you click up there you can actually save yourself by joining me for a point of view test drive video what's not so good about it is that the suspension can feel a bit crashy over bumps you really do feel them sending jobs through the cabin and it fidgets around over rough surfaces another thing to watch out for is that on the low powered versions you can get them with a manual gearbox you want to avoid that you want to pay extra for the automatics it just makes this car easier to drive and the manual isn't actually all that nice this SLC has a classic sports car setup so you've got an engine at the front and it sends power to the rear wheels they just have to concentrate on driving and the front wheels they just have to concentrate on steering thing is though it doesn't really feel as much fun to drive as a front-wheel drive Audi TT it may be a sports car but it's not the sportiest of sports cars however this particular car driving here has the dynamic handling package and that does improve things so it gives you a just above suspension it also gives you a sharper steering and it does feel better to drive with that package for you to it so I suggest you pay the extra for it 2,000 pounds now all cars come with driving select where you can move from comfort into sport when you ever been to sports plus did you hear that exhaust no changes and it gets more raucous and if you're at the dynamic handling package it stiffens the suspension so it makes a car just a bit flatter in the corners now one thing that really annoys me about this car is that if you wanna put the roof up or down you actually have to come to a complete stop to initiate the roof mechanism and then you can do it once you've started it going you can then start moving a little bit but not over 25 miles an hour I was a little freaked out and stopped yeah a dtt you can drive along and initiate the roof where they stopped which could be very annoying you're on the motorway speaking of big on the motorway when you put the roof up this is actually really quiet and relaxing that's the benefit of having a metal roof rather than a fabric soft top and it just feels like you're in a coupe a in terms of the engines well you can get four different petrol engines and one diesel this particular car is the 300 so it's got a 2-liter turbocharged petrol engine with children 45 and it'll go from naught to 60 in just 5.6 seconds and it feels really quick and it works nicely with this pedal shift 9 speed automatic gearbox actually there's more annoying things about this car is 5 whenever you put the roof up or down the car will automatically put the windows back up if you want it to anything is though it forgets to put up the rear most windows so you have to then move to another button to do that yourself and often you forget and what all that noise is this carbon fiber trim looks a little bit tacky which is even worse considering it's a 1500 pound option it really bothers me that the infotainment screen doesn't line up centrally for the center console giving me some really bad Feng Shui vibes there's some visors a tiny they don't really do a very good job and the poor passenger gets a look at this warning sign here so they're gonna spend the whole journey slightly unnerved you wouldn't have thought that on a car of this price you have to fit this painfully little wind deflector yourself there we go thankfully this car has plenty of cool features to help make up for all this is 5 the optional magic sky roof essentially gives you a Sun blind built in to the glass this the car has electric operation the steering column the sure sign that you are in a premium branded product all SLC's are available with Android auto and apple carplay and you can get it with a 10 speaker upgraded stereo night all the speakers now there's one here there's one here there's one here and there's one down there and there's the same over the other side that's eight and there's nine here and the tenth ones they're banging tunes there are some amazing discounts to be had on SLC's through car wife for instance this car with options the list price is 56,000 pounds but a car Wow dealer oftenly want the exact same spec for 41,000 pounds and while the car may start at 32,000 pounds on average it actually starts about 23,000 pounds and bite-through car Wow so that's Mazda mx-5 money and what would you rather have a master badge from Sadie's badge which is rather large you can enjoy this car all year round with the roof down if you go for the optional air scarf press the button on the dash and then it blows warm air through these vents in the headrest that you hear it that won't move my mic to it if you click up there you can get a Colorado dot uk' for more information and to compare offers on the Mercedes SL C so then what's my verdict on this car sure do avoid it should you consider it should you shortlist it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I reckon you should consider the SLC because the discounts you can get on it it's actually not too bad a sports car you enjoyed this video please like it and share it and click on our logo to subscribe to our channel also click on the video windows for more car way videos now did you spot the Easter Egg in this video it was the student loans company logo on the iPhone screen in the cars glove box SL soon student loans companythis is the Mercedes SL C and it's the perfect car for British summers because you can enjoy it with the roof down on the rare occasions that it is certainly like today but when it's raining you can put the roof up and you effectively turn the car into a coupe eight rather than a normal rag top convertible there you go look clever a folding metal roof all very nice now this car starts from 32,000 pounds which seems like quite a lot of money considering it's quite old now but if you click up there you can get a Colorado dot uk' and you can see some incredible deals on this car let's check out the inside now one of the reasons I wanted to put the roof up was to show you how much space there is in here when you're going about in coop a style so look at this the seat does go back quite a long way so even if you're very tall you should be fine and there is lots of adjustment in the steering world as well I got decent Headroom if you're large you're still gonna be firing this car whereas you're probably fine a bit less squeezing some think such as the cheaper master mx-5 terms of the quality well it's not too bad this is one of Mercedes older cars like I said but the materials are still pretty nice and it all feels solid there are a few things which aren't so nice though and that's like the dolls head these just feel cheap and nasty also the layer to this console here with all the buttons and stuff it's just looking a little bit old-fashioned now nice brings some to the trim level so there's anyone AMG line and in some ways it's well-equipped and in other ways it's not so well equipped for instance you don't get satellite navigation as standard on any car it's an option on this particular model so if you want the command the top-of-the-range system it's 2,000 pounds you can get a cheaper Becca version but that's not particularly nice to use actually this command online system isn't all that great to use it either can't get a little bit confusing now you look at there see for yourself watch my in-depth video review at the infotainment system of this car doing of options this particular car Messiah now has 16,000 pounds worth of options on it such as these lovely nappa leather seats as standard you get fake leather you get Mercedes aunt eco letter and it's actually alright terms of could be spaces we don't expect much in a car this size do you and do too much I've got some cup holders here got some store they're exactly all right the glovebox is a decent size and there are some extendable door pockets there which will take a bottle just don't leave it open otherwise it's gonna drip it on the floor and there's some more storage there as well speaking of storage let's move on to the boot and see what that's like so the capacity is actually pretty good for a sporty car such as this if you have a look inside you'll see there's plenty of space there and because this one hasn't got a spare wheel there is some more storage under there if you need it now I've got to fit this regretting doing that now all right so yeah the boot is pretty large however you have to be careful what you take if you want to put the roof down at any point because when you put the roof down you have to make sure that everything fits under this cover because the roof mechanism goes on top of that there now I'm going to show you that by lowering the roof it's all quite elegant really isn't it just have anything goes wrong with it because that could be expensive to fix right there we go so now I'm gonna show you you see the roofs on top of it there and you're pretty wondering how the heck do I get this out of there I'm not gonna go through the procedure of putting the roof back up but that's kind of what I need to do anyway if you want more detail about this cars practicality click up there to watch my detail practicality video you'll see how much stuff you can fit into this car boot and that's pretty much it because there not much else to show right then that's the practical stuff dealt with now it's time to hit the road the SLC is quite easy car to drive in town so while he may sit alone you've got a big long bonnet it's quite easy to tell where the corners of the car are so that makes it easy to maneuver in traffic so if you click up there you can actually save yourself by joining me for a point of view test drive video what's not so good about it is that the suspension can feel a bit crashy over bumps you really do feel them sending jobs through the cabin and it fidgets around over rough surfaces another thing to watch out for is that on the low powered versions you can get them with a manual gearbox you want to avoid that you want to pay extra for the automatics it just makes this car easier to drive and the manual isn't actually all that nice this SLC has a classic sports car setup so you've got an engine at the front and it sends power to the rear wheels they just have to concentrate on driving and the front wheels they just have to concentrate on steering thing is though it doesn't really feel as much fun to drive as a front-wheel drive Audi TT it may be a sports car but it's not the sportiest of sports cars however this particular car driving here has the dynamic handling package and that does improve things so it gives you a just above suspension it also gives you a sharper steering and it does feel better to drive with that package for you to it so I suggest you pay the extra for it 2,000 pounds now all cars come with driving select where you can move from comfort into sport when you ever been to sports plus did you hear that exhaust no changes and it gets more raucous and if you're at the dynamic handling package it stiffens the suspension so it makes a car just a bit flatter in the corners now one thing that really annoys me about this car is that if you wanna put the roof up or down you actually have to come to a complete stop to initiate the roof mechanism and then you can do it once you've started it going you can then start moving a little bit but not over 25 miles an hour I was a little freaked out and stopped yeah a dtt you can drive along and initiate the roof where they stopped which could be very annoying you're on the motorway speaking of big on the motorway when you put the roof up this is actually really quiet and relaxing that's the benefit of having a metal roof rather than a fabric soft top and it just feels like you're in a coupe a in terms of the engines well you can get four different petrol engines and one diesel this particular car is the 300 so it's got a 2-liter turbocharged petrol engine with children 45 and it'll go from naught to 60 in just 5.6 seconds and it feels really quick and it works nicely with this pedal shift 9 speed automatic gearbox actually there's more annoying things about this car is 5 whenever you put the roof up or down the car will automatically put the windows back up if you want it to anything is though it forgets to put up the rear most windows so you have to then move to another button to do that yourself and often you forget and what all that noise is this carbon fiber trim looks a little bit tacky which is even worse considering it's a 1500 pound option it really bothers me that the infotainment screen doesn't line up centrally for the center console giving me some really bad Feng Shui vibes there's some visors a tiny they don't really do a very good job and the poor passenger gets a look at this warning sign here so they're gonna spend the whole journey slightly unnerved you wouldn't have thought that on a car of this price you have to fit this painfully little wind deflector yourself there we go thankfully this car has plenty of cool features to help make up for all this is 5 the optional magic sky roof essentially gives you a Sun blind built in to the glass this the car has electric operation the steering column the sure sign that you are in a premium branded product all SLC's are available with Android auto and apple carplay and you can get it with a 10 speaker upgraded stereo night all the speakers now there's one here there's one here there's one here and there's one down there and there's the same over the other side that's eight and there's nine here and the tenth ones they're banging tunes there are some amazing discounts to be had on SLC's through car wife for instance this car with options the list price is 56,000 pounds but a car Wow dealer oftenly want the exact same spec for 41,000 pounds and while the car may start at 32,000 pounds on average it actually starts about 23,000 pounds and bite-through car Wow so that's Mazda mx-5 money and what would you rather have a master badge from Sadie's badge which is rather large you can enjoy this car all year round with the roof down if you go for the optional air scarf press the button on the dash and then it blows warm air through these vents in the headrest that you hear it that won't move my mic to it if you click up there you can get a Colorado dot uk' for more information and to compare offers on the Mercedes SL C so then what's my verdict on this car sure do avoid it should you consider it should you shortlist it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I reckon you should consider the SLC because the discounts you can get on it it's actually not too bad a sports car you enjoyed this video please like it and share it and click on our logo to subscribe to our channel also click on the video windows for more car way videos now did you spot the Easter Egg in this video it was the student loans company logo on the iPhone screen in the cars glove box SL soon student loans company\n"