Classic car magazines can be guilty of unrealistically low ‘Prices from £Xk’ headlines in the hope of snaring new readers, but at Classic Cars magazine we focus on what you’d really pay for a car in a condition that you’d actually want to own. So when the latest issue says that a Mercedes 230 SLK can be yours from £2.5k, we’re talking about a good example with 60-70k miles and full service history.
Incredible value for such a refined and once expensive roadster, and one with the party trick of a push-button, folding electric hardtop. Even the 320 V6 isn’t much more than twice that for a similarly well-looked after example. All you have to do is navigate your way around the poorly maintained examples that have been glossed up for a quick profit, so it’s worth checking out the buying guide in the latest issue of Classic Cars magazine which details the most serious and expensive faults, and shows you how to spot them. After that all you need to do is seize the best bits of our sporadic summer, yours at the push of a button.
Buying advice and market analysis is part of 16 pages of buying information in every issue of Classic Cars magazine, including Quentin Willson’s Smart Buys, Russ Smith’s Market Watch, in-depth buying guides and Ads on Test.
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