![]() I am selling my car very soon and buying a Mercedes SLK230 before summer reaches. I currently come from another car forum called. Or what they had to spend.Īnd it meant Mercedes found a way to sell people Miatas for more than twice the price. That makes the SLK230 simply brilliant.My name is Scott. It appealed to anyone that wanted the latest and greatest, and didn't care how they had to compromise to get it. Who else dared to put a folding roof on a small car like that? Who else dared to get rid of your trunk? It was dot com excess in a tiny package. It was ok to drive, but that fancy pants folding roof was its calling card. That makes the SLK230 the ultimate calling card of the 90s: Status without substance. They wanted a car that produced the top down smiles of the Miata but with a big badge that showed that they had planned out their day trading better than the person who could afford only a Miata. For the price of an SLK320, you could have a fresh Corvette C5 and be able to pull any hill in the Appalachians and everyone at Heisler's Dairy Bar will still be your friend. But you didn't want friends. If the SLK230 blown-four feels just like a N/A V6.why not just put in a V6 and be done with it? You'd have a simpler engine that can go longer distances. If you need to get up a hill, just put your foot down because the 2.3L Kompressor feels like a V6. You're meant to drive it like every WASP drives their C5: one mile-per-hour below the speed limit, in top gear, while waving to sidewalk-stroller-pushers. ![]() That's why you buy this little piece of nouveau riche. Once you pass 5,000 rpm, the power begins to drop off.Ĭruising is what the SLK230 does very well: sunny day, top down, soft-serve ice cream, big smiles. You can imagine you're in a Mustang with a Procharger for a little while. When you get above 4,000 rpm you will hear a slight whine from the tiny blower. At 2,000 rpm in fifth gear, you can go wide-open-throttle and pass people on the highway. Worse, the SLK230's five-speed manual has gear ratios longer than the line at a Pennsylvanian State-Store the day before Thanksgiving. The 1989 Toyota MR2 AW11 SC had a roots-style supercharger boosting a 16v engine all the way to 7,500rpm! The Merc can barely touch six-grand. What?! It's a twin-cam with 16 valves! Why can't I rev it like any other zippy four-banger? It's not like the superchargers limit engine revolutions. Wonderful! How fun! Yes just like a Miata but more! The SLK230 engine configuration sounds great written out:Ģ.3L Straight FourTwin CamFour-valves per-cylinder Twin Vortices-type supercharger. The CD changer is in the trunk, waiting to accept five copies of Fleetwood Mac's 1997 live album "The Dance." The Mac is back! Everything is going to be OK! My traction control is so Nanny-State, it flashes at me if I let the clutch out too fast! I love rules! The SLK230 was a cheap roadster bought with your successful Scottrade portfolio. We saw ourselves sucking down Orbits fruit drinks, selling our Beanie Baby collections, and buying Plymouth Prowlers with the profits to complement our Mercedes roadsters, not our Mazda roadsters. Yet, in the late 90's and the year 2000, we did think we'd all be millionaires with our AOL Keywords, Palm Pilots, and digital cameras. "You can retire at age 39!" we inaccurately thought, as author Jeremy Rifkin put it in his book of the same name, it was "The End of Work." Rifkin's 1995 book was not about e-money, or universal self-employment, or e-business, so much as it was a warning a longform version of Springsteen's "My Hometown " Foreman says "these jobs are going, boys, and they ain't coming back." Computers, and the so-called "digital Age" or "Information Super Highway" was a Golden Goose that people thought would lay eggs forever and end the tyranny of punch-clocks. Everything was going up! Put money in and watch it grow! You didn't even have to be all that smart. In the late 1990's, if you had a dial-up connection and a rudimentary understanding of the stock market, you could make surprising bank. To understand the SLK230 you have to understand what it was like growing up in the late 1990's. Marmaduke is the summit of comedy! I drive a 2000 Mercedes SLK230 Kompressor. I get a golf cart even if we're just playing the back nine.
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![]() However, the third baby, Gray, is underweight, but precocious he can talk. The babies are healthy with Redmond and Blutarch starting their life-long hatred of each other. Barnabas is distraught while Zepheniah is indifferent. The midwife, Patience Meriweather, informs Zepheniah that his wife has died while giving birth to three sons - Redmond, Blutarch, and Gray. A young Zepheniah Mann and his associate, Barnabas Hale, are discussing strategy while his wife Bette undergoes childbirth in another room. The comic then flashes back to 1822 in the stately hall of Mann Manor. They attempt to enlist his help to build a pregnancy machine. Redmond and Blutarch fail to recognize their brother as it has been a long time since they last saw him. He reveals that he had sent the letters proposing the truce and berates the two brothers for being so idiotic as not to recognize it. He is just as old as the two brothers, but has an advanced, mobile version of a Life Extender Machine embedded in his spine. It is Gray Mann, their long-lost brother. They are interrupted by the sounds of their caretakers being stabbed and a curious voice matter-of-factly stating, "Gentlemen." They both agree that it is a wonderful idea and congratulate each other on suggesting the meeting via a tear-stained letter only to find that neither of them had sent one. After dismissing their caretakers, Blutarch proposes a truce in order that they may make one of them pregnant to produce an heir. Still kept alive by their life-extending machines, they discuss their dim prospects. The brothers, Redmond and Blutarch Mann, are inside attempting to put aside their differences in light of the fact that neither of them have an heir. 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Since the grinder works at a rather low RPM (only 550) and mostly handles grinds in the coarse to medium-range, you shouldn’t worry about lifespan.Īdditionally, the new and improved gearbox can prevent jams from stopping quickly enough without causing damage to internal parts, making for quite the resilient grinder. The gears, however, are made of 15% glass-filled thermoplastic, which makes them more durable. Build QualityĬompared to Baratza’s older Maestro models, the Encore device has an improved gearbox for quieter operation and a sturdier design.Īside from the steel burrs, the Encore’s internal parts are mostly made out of plastic. Bigger beans don’t feed through the hopper as well as regular-sized beans, which could result in some loose beans left over. You may find it difficult using the Encore if you use coffee beans that are larger than average. The catch bin collects most loose grounds, although some users have noticed that static causes the grounds to stick to the inside and make a mess when you try to clean out the grinder. There’s a central front pulse button in the center of the device while the power and grind setting are on the top and the side. You’ll also lack the ability to fine-tune the adjustment, so you can really dial in your shot. The motor is not meant for it, which can cause problems in the long run. In a pressurized basket (which is more forgiving) you can get away with it, but in a regular 58mm portafilter it won’t be a good long term solution. While you’ll be able to pull a shot from the Encore it will never be outstanding. You will have to either look to a manual grinder or drop a lot of extra money, if you want to go a significant step up in consistency. Overall, the grounds look better than anything else at this price range. If it really bothers you, you can always sift it out from the grinds, but this really isn’t necessary. The Encore does produce some dust – the so-called ‘fines’ – but not much compared to other entry-level grinders. It does really well for most kinds of regular coffee, such as: The Encore’s grind quality is good for its price range. The grind is quite consistent and the grinder only produces few fines If you don’t use a digital scale for your brews, and mostly buy coffee from the supermarket, the Encore will definitely suit your needs. ![]() If you always buy fresh coffee beans from a local roaster, and have started to experiment with using different kinds of mineralized water for your brew, then you might belong to the demography that could benefit from an even better grinder.How to know if the grinder is good enough for your needs? In my experience, it also delivers a better flavor clarity compared to other popular entry-level models such as the Bodum Bistro and the Wilfa Svart. The quality of the grind is definitely way better than anything, you’d get from a blade grinder or even the cheaper disk-burr grinder (those are typical among the sub $50-models out there, but they are nowhere near as consistent as the conical steel burrs in the Encore).įrankly that will be enough for most people. Baratza Encore Grinder ReviewĪs mentioned before, the Encore is an entry-level burr grinder, but that doesn’t prevent it from delivering strong performance and durability. That’s pretty rare among appliance manufacturers. ![]() ![]() It’s actually a part of Baratza’s philosophy to design their grinders so they can easily be repaired. The company’s customer service is generally awesome. The Encore is the most basic model available from Baratza, and also one of the most popular ones. The company both makes grinders for professionals as well as home-users. 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