I and my brother wanted to upgrade from Audi A3 after 5 years of wonderful experience overall.
After much thought and comparison I decided to buy new Mercedes C200 and my brother decided on 3 series Limo both petrol, we both took delivery of our new cars on the same day in July 2022. After driving this car for the last 10 months, and 6350 Kms 1. The car engine is so much under power- I guess they have tweaked their demo car engine to cover the inefficacy. 2. Huge lag in acceleration - can’t rely on engine at all, as it takes its own sweet time to catch up. I bet this car cant even match verna or any other car of similar rage. 3. Massive rave noise - press hard for acceleration and the car makes thundering noise as if it has reached 200km per hr which you realise is not even 50kmpl - initially I got scared of the huge noise the car engine makes. 4. Erratic engine response - sudden jerk in initial acceleration when u don’t need it and that’s because of additional power from an additional electric power assist which comes at the very wrong time and is always missing when u need the most. 5. Poor Milage - A compromise on engine Capacity and additional EQ(battery) made expect to get better milage which is around 7kmpl in the city 6. Ground clearance is further reduced - I always knew the car doesn’t have good clearance, but to my surprise, this gets worst, with full occupancy it becomes impossible to drive, it so happened that I had to even ask my guest to get down so that I could cross breaker - and I am not exaggerating I can prove this. 7. Break pad noise - the braking noise is more than what a truck or bus would make, please find the audio clip attached, I complained about this to the service center to which they are saying this model has a problem and they will be replacing once the new brake pad arrives and its been 10 months in waiting 8. Active brake assist - a couple of times narrowly scaped someone banging my car due to sudden brakes applied on its own due to brake assist. Every time you start your car you have to deactivate the brake assist, you forget this, and easily you could be a victim of an accident. This may work abroad but not on Indian roads, why could they not give the option to disable it until you make it enable again. 9. Interior Air circulation mode - the air circulation mode gets off every few minutes you have to keep switching every 10 min or so which is not possible and you get outside air in the cabin, again a feature not for Indian conditions and should have been corrected like brake assist. 10. Poor control & wobble ride - the last nail in the coffin is the ride quality is wobbling C200 Vs 3 series Limo On the first day, I was happily comparing mine vs the 3 series limo, soon the BMW scored much higher in every aspect compared to C200. There is no comparison between these two. BMW wins hands down, wish I had chosen it. The 3 series limo is a fantastic car to drive, its a driver’s dream car, with better mileage despite of bigger engine, and in the absence EQ mode like in the Mercedes C200 What’s good in C200? Its nothing except for the looks Verdict
the experience of driving 65 lakh car is even lower than of 6 lakh and I regret my decision so much as if I have thrown my hard earn money in the drain I planned to sell my car but the offer that I am getting is so bad can’t even mention it. I guess a lot many people already know now about these problems.