Anything made after 1998 is not worth paying a dime.sven360 wrote:If you bought a 8yr old E class you'd soon change your mind.
Built to a budget and not very well at that,
Those ol' W123s are the last of the properly engineered Mercs.
Can't argue with the Germans mind,badge engineering at its best.
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For older merc parts are not so expensive, especially from 3rd parties and those are often rather good parts. Big front wing was something around 63£ or so some years ago and there is always availability, it is not expensive if you can get it with money.
It just does not hit my spot, too sterile.
Of course there are 80's S-classe, which is very reasonable car. I like quiet with plenty of room, so that is also one key points it being reasonable.
However as we live in world that is far from perfect, I probably have stick with garaging 360 and having french torturing machines for rest of life for dailys.