The new benz is made for lease, not purchase. Maybe there is enough quality left for it to CPO, so the two or three year old S class has a few years left before it gets too expensive to fix. As a lease, the multiple flaws will be covered by warrantee work. A decade in, the cars turn to crap.
I am beginning to see w211 and other contemporary models at PnP. clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On Jan 21, 2018, at 7:13 AM, tyee165 via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > The quality was built in 40 years ago. Not so sure about the new MB. Will be > many years before we will be certain, and I may be gone by then. > Many people who buy new do not keep a car long enough to care. They move on. > I suspect that is why car companies do not much worry about the long term. > > > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A > -------- Original message --------From: Larry Turner via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Date: 2018-01-21 8:55 AM (GMT-06:00) To: > mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Larry Turner <l02tur...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: > [MBZ] Major disappointment > Many people don't understand the difference between MBs and other cars. > I had a friend who was looking for a new car - he test drove a new MB > and was not impressed. He said a Chev or Ford felt the same way when he > tested them. What I could not get him to understand was the difference o not > worry > in quality didn't come when testing a new car. Almost anyone can put a > car together that will feel great for the 1st month or 2. It became > obvious after 10 or more years with 100K or 200K miles on the clock but > with maintenance needed to keep it running properly that quality had to > be built in at the beginning. The car magazines all make a similar > mistake although they do like to talk about the MBs craftsmanship. But > in a week or so driving one they don't really know. If they bought > pre-owned like many on the list they might come to understand the > importance of owning a car put together like a Swiss watch. > > But the less the public knows, the more nice used MBs for us ;-) > > LarryT > > On 01/20/2018 11:39 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: >> that is just sick. When they wanted $60k for a dissel gran cherokee, >> I told em they were crazy! For that money, I'd buy a MB. >> >>> Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>> January 20, 2018 at 8:55 AM >>> I was in a new Jeep Grand Cherokee the other day. Sticker price was $92k >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
