2015 Mercedes-Benz SLK250 Manual Tested: Saving Benz’s Manuals?

Care to shift for yourself but resolutely abstain from anything not built by Mercedes-Benz? Your choices, good eccentric sir, are excruciatingly limited. So limited, in fact, that the correct word is “choice,” not “choices.” The 2015 SLK250 is the only U.S.-market vehicle wearing the three-pointed star to offer a stick shift. Since buyers selecting the manual represent only a tiny percentage of SLK customers—themselves a tiny fraction of the buying populace, with just 4757 new SLKs sold in 2013 and 4353 moved in the first eleven months of 2014—this test was, for the most part, born from our sheer curiosity. READ MORE ››

from Car and Driver Blog http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-mercedes-benz-slk250-roadster-manual-test-review