Before Roger beats me to it, the W202 and 203 are Common class models.
You may be thinking of the 210 and 211 Executive class.
BTW there is an saying along the lines of: an older Showoff class might
be cheaper to buy but is not cheaper to maintain.
It's always a good idea to price some of the components that are likely
to fail to see if you would be happy to pay such money to keep the car
going.
Hendrik
who has the executive station wagen
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Bill Ringgold <billr32...@comcast.net>wrote:
I appreciate the attention to this. I also called my nephew who looked up
the records for his S500 customers. The general impression is to stay away
from anything that has an air suspension system.
I might be crazy, but if I were going to bother looking for a good post-W140
S-class, I would get the air suspension for sure. It's the major option
that makes the S more than just a bigger E. Put another way, the W202 and
W203 E-classes are so good that I couldn't justify paying more for the S
unless I was going to go all out with it. (Which doesn't necessarily
include getting one with a V-12. You have to draw the line somewhere!)
The air suspension system is, from my anecdotal impressions, a lot like the
hydropneumatic suspension of the 450SEL 6.9. It is expensive to fix, but
reliable if maintained properly, and when working right makes the car drive
and ride like nothing else.
Alex
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