Well, it's home now. Drove it back 50 miles in near freezing temps (the traction control is a neat thing when accelerating uphill on a frozen onramp)

Here there are side-by-side. The 500E (other than the fact that body is just awesome in a dark color) is just one really tough looking car. So far I'm glad I took a gamble on this one. Ran like a scalded cat all the way home and not hint of the shudder/stumble again today. When she sit's overnight here we'll see because they had the car warmed up by the time I got there.

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