Hey,

I'm a 20 year-old 380SE driver (short wheelbase W126, not as much rear legroom as your 300SEL has). Enjoy your car and treat it with all the respect it deserves. I hope your ownership experience will be as pleasant as driving my car has been for me (and enjoy that rev-happy I-6).

-Sam

PS: My ex-girlfriend (who I am still friends with) is a very smooth and focused driver who isn't afraid to keep up with the flow of traffic and drives defensively.

However, a very good female friend of mine is the proverbial female cell-phone-yakking, makeup-applying, multitasking female driver that many of us have encountered on the road. And she has a beer-can of a 1996 Nissan Sentra (automatic of course for someone like her). Hopefully, she'll never test the body rigidity of that tiny car with an accident bred of stupidity.....