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Not sure if this counts as a barge, but I do think it's cheap for a nearly new E-Class from a main dealer.
http://tinyurl.com/e220VEK
It's also my old car that I had on a lease.
If I were to buy it, I'd be getting it for under £25k all in.
http://tinyurl.com/e220VEK
It's also my old car that I had on a lease.
If I were to buy it, I'd be getting it for under £25k all in.
CYMR0 said:
Not sure if this counts as a barge, but I do think it's cheap for a nearly new E-Class from a main dealer.
http://tinyurl.com/e220VEK
It's also my old car that I had on a lease.
If I were to buy it, I'd be getting it for under £25k all in.
2 year old with sensible miles... that seems very cheap indeed. Is that the market for them?http://tinyurl.com/e220VEK
It's also my old car that I had on a lease.
If I were to buy it, I'd be getting it for under £25k all in.
It's manual, and therefore "broken" as far as E-Classes go.
It also has no nav, although you can get a Becker unit that uses the stereo screen for £200 or so off eBay.
There are two others on the Trader of the same age with 23k miles (5k less), at £1,500 and £3,000 more, so even allowing for that, it's cheap, and even more so since it only went online over the last day or two.
Edit: a new one from a broker or pre-reg is about £27k with autobox, nav and real leather, rather than MB-Tex (which is fine, by the way).
It also has no nav, although you can get a Becker unit that uses the stereo screen for £200 or so off eBay.
There are two others on the Trader of the same age with 23k miles (5k less), at £1,500 and £3,000 more, so even allowing for that, it's cheap, and even more so since it only went online over the last day or two.
Edit: a new one from a broker or pre-reg is about £27k with autobox, nav and real leather, rather than MB-Tex (which is fine, by the way).
W00DY said:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
It's got the little blue hybrid badge so everyone knows you're doing your bit.
Welcome posts on this thread. Please keep providing me mind food...I just sold an E500 5.5 and am aiming for the middle of the thread budget, maybe upto £20k which of course gets me into the new shape 7er.
I'd like something as quick as the Merc and, say, 10% more frugal(E500 was 24.6 combined).
650i is a candidate, having had a 550i before the Merc. Clearly I shouldn't have sold the 550i but I was off the road for a year.
I'd like something as quick as the Merc and, say, 10% more frugal(E500 was 24.6 combined).
650i is a candidate, having had a 550i before the Merc. Clearly I shouldn't have sold the 550i but I was off the road for a year.
I tried the Lexus 600h a really nice car inside, build quality and parts superb apart from that £1.99 LED clock in it and once you see it you can't take your eyes off it I couldn't find anything to turn it off.
Very small trivial point but in a car of this price they should have done better.
Very small trivial point but in a car of this price they should have done better.
Fox- said:
kapiteinlangzaam said:
Semi-Auto-Transmission at a guess
Nope, a conventional automatic with the Sports Automatic Transmission presumably, which adds paddles and a different shift programme to the E60 or F10.Sorry for using confusing acronyms guys!
W00DY said:
ATM said:
This looks nice for £10,975. Are these any good?
2008
New Gearbox - as in the newer type
130000 miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
Looks pretty good at 10 large. That steering wheel looks seriously fat though!2008
New Gearbox - as in the newer type
130000 miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
Lovely spec, so restrained and it looks mint.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
Bet that quilted leather doesn't come cheap.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
It's got the little blue hybrid badge so everyone knows you're doing your bit.
sly fox said:
I've looked at a couple of CL500's ; lovely cars if you are happy with them being a long term proposition, selling them on is extremely hard according to a few mates in the trade.
I sold mine privately in one week for the full asking price. It cost me nothing to own one for a year, tyres aside that is. I suspect your mates in the trade are trying to shift dodgy colour combos for too much money. Admittedly mine had the the desirable parts: factory fitted AMG wheels, AMG kit, AMG exhaust, black leather, full black wood trim etc. The bog standard brown wood trim is a bit 1980s naff, which may put a lot of people off. Easily sorted by finding black trim on Ebay, or even carbon fibre parts from Germany.
ps
In summary the CLS is good on the motorway but too lardy everywhere else. I went back to a small car which handles well, just to get back my driving mojo. Next time I'll get something in the middle, which can do everything ok: handling and motorways. Perhaps an M3. The better a car is for one task the worse it is at everything else. So something in the middle seems like the best long term option.
I'm sure the bork factor is never far away. My CLS was mint and drove fine. The two little niggles I had were: drivers side window mech failure and sat nav ariel. The window cost me about £200. The aerial had to be done at a main dealer for a similar price.
However while I was there the dealer did a check over for me, even though I did not ask for one. Apparently if I did everything they thought was required to make it A1 the bill would have been £4000 plus fitting. On top of that they said if the aerial swap did not work and the box of electric tricks was at fault it would cost another £4000 on top. So essentially on paper my car was close to a write off, despite it looking and driving like a mint example! I dread to think how much a real mechanical failure would cost, such as an engine, gearbox, anything large.
This early warning of the size of bills to come made me exit ownership a month later. IT may never have gone wrong, but once that thought is there it ruins the feel good relaxation factor.
However while I was there the dealer did a check over for me, even though I did not ask for one. Apparently if I did everything they thought was required to make it A1 the bill would have been £4000 plus fitting. On top of that they said if the aerial swap did not work and the box of electric tricks was at fault it would cost another £4000 on top. So essentially on paper my car was close to a write off, despite it looking and driving like a mint example! I dread to think how much a real mechanical failure would cost, such as an engine, gearbox, anything large.
This early warning of the size of bills to come made me exit ownership a month later. IT may never have gone wrong, but once that thought is there it ruins the feel good relaxation factor.
Helicopter123 said:
W00DY said:
ATM said:
This looks nice for £10,975. Are these any good?
2008
New Gearbox - as in the newer type
130000 miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
Looks pretty good at 10 large. That steering wheel looks seriously fat though!2008
New Gearbox - as in the newer type
130000 miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
Lovely spec, so restrained and it looks mint.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
Bet that quilted leather doesn't come cheap.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
It's got the little blue hybrid badge so everyone knows you're doing your bit.
ATM said:
This looks nice for £10,975. Are these any good?
2008
New Gearbox - as in the newer type
130000 miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
Can these be enjoyed on an empty b road or are they full on barge? 2008
New Gearbox - as in the newer type
130000 miles
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
Surely they're small enough to be agile and big enough to barge.
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