Highlights One owner from new Just 24,845 miles on the clock Comprehensive service history Muscular V8 delivering 416bhp / 398lb-ft Unmodified, factory specification Overview Considering they’re the great-grandparent of the motorcar, and decidedly German, Mercedes-Benz sometimes give us the distinct impression that what they really, really want to build is dirty great muscle cars.

Preferably with thumping naturally-aspirated V8s that deliver the kind of noise that sends wildlife running three counties away.

Nowhere is this quite as exemplified as in the SLK 55 AMG.

To all intents and purposes, the SLK is Mercedes’ small sports car, and small sports cars usually have small, revvy engines, a modest amount of power and little in the way of creature comforts.

Clearly, someone forgot to tell the design team, as they appear to have decided that what the SLK really needed was heaps of power.

As in, HEAPS.

416bhp, to be precise.

Which is many heaps.

They also decided that this power sh...