me too and so is my better half, we love these cars. It's a shame they won't be made anymore. With that beefed up slk suspension and with a body syle that's very special indeed. I still have an old 129 300sl and a 98 slk, all black of course that I love. but about 6 months ago a friend of ours wanted to buy my wife's 05 Chrysler 300 and at the same time I spotted a black base model at a local dealer. I sent the ol' lady down to check it out cause it was only $11,000. She comes back and said it only had 17,000 miles on her. After doing the research that night on where the car was made and my love for mercedes, we sold our 300 and got the base model. There are such great deals out there on these wonderful cars. I wish I had the money and a place to keep them I'd buy more just have them. The first thing I did was wire in some oem fog lights using my alldata schematics for my slk. Same illumination module. and then I installed a synthetic carbon fiber dash kit for at least that not so great center console. I really like the improvement. It's a shame they have to cut corners on the interior, same as the early slk. a dask kit is a big help, I put one in my slk too after stripping the dash parts of that awful spray on vinyl they used. we really like the manual transmission sometimes, but other times an auto is nice. well, a week ago, I was snooping on cars.com and found a black limited roadster that had a cedar/charcoal interior with 20k on her, with an automatic, for $16,500. carfax was good so we put a down to hold her until we could drive there 700 miles away and take a look and luckily it turned out to be a very nice rig, only minor issues. But that automatic is just great. Best automatic I have ever seen or used. my wife and I had a blast and yes we were bad too. On the way back we traded back & forth between that sweet Xfire and the slk out in the middle of nowhere on the back roads of Utah and Nevada. That is what it's all about. What a blessing. We're hooked for sure. Thank you Daimler!