Given this, what is a good source for an unmolested S class? Estate sales? Retirement areas where old folks eventually sell cars because they can no longer drive?
On Sat, Jul 9, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: > E class is more a buy and hold car, whereas the S class is a three year > lease and dump. After four or five owners they get pretty trashed. > Usually by the third owner maintenance, upkeep, and repair is out the > window. The car is a "status symbol" that gets no love. But that's my > opinion, not necessarily a fact. More of an observation. > > > Rick > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: July 9, 2022 2:26 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com; davesl...@okiebenz.com > Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: ka...@striplin.net > Subject: [MBZ] E vs S > > I have for the most part always preferred S class cars. Specially 126 > and 140. I have never owned anything 220 or newer. The reason for this > is because it seems like 140 and up S classes that are nice are hard to > find. They are usually ghettofied, beat to death etc. While this does > happen with the e class, it seems like those are usually better taken > care of. Anybody got any theories on that? You would think the cars > that sold new for much much more would be better taken care of. > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > 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
