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I’ll be very honest with you – I’m struggling to find a way to begin this story. There are some things for which it’s difficult to find apt and lucid descriptions; you know you’ve experienced them, but when asked for a summation of what you thought and how you felt, you find yourself rubbing your head, scratching your chin (sometimes simultaneously) and failing to come up with an appropriate answer.
The Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG is one such thing; I find I cannot describe, even to myself, the car in its entirety. Therefore, I’m going to go with the next best option, which is to tell you the first thought that came to my mind after I had driven the G55 for a bit – that it is, without a shred of doubt, the most absurdly entertaining vehicle on sale in the country, if not the world, and with the emphasis being firmly on ‘absurd’.
What other way can one describe a car that is over 30 years old in design and which has all the subtlety of walking into a pane of glass, interiors that are decidedly un-Mercedes, a flipping great 8-cylinder, 507 bhp, 71 kgm petrol engine, the handling prowess of a reasonably agile housing colony, the off-road capability of a battle tank, the drinking habits of the nation of Ireland and a price tag of Rs 1.1 crore (before taxes and whatnot)?
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