WOULD you prefer to park your car for a week at Sydney or Melbourne airport, or a brand new Mercedes CLA 45 AMG, the world's fastest four-cylinder sedan, with 265kW, lots of AMG boy/girl racer signs and HSV GTS acceleration?
When you turn up at the airport to leave your car for a week, Virgin, Qantas and the airport owners reach into your pocket and extract $476, more than you'll pay a week to own a CLA AMG. You can probably squeeze into an M3 and scare the hell out of the rellies at Xmas for close to the same money.
Of course there's lots of better stuff you can buy for $476 than a bit of cement at Tulla or Mascot. How about a few laps around Bathurst in a V8 with Fabian Coulthard, John Bowe or Russell Ingall or all three. Less than $300 gets you breakfast, a meet and greet with one of the lads, a photo, cap and a blast around the mountain.