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Hi all,
I'm currently in an odd situation where I've had a 330D XDrive for the last year from a friend and he's having it back in a couple of weeks. Long story short, buying a house so don't want to finance anything, also don't want to spend a fortune and lose loads of money but also want a nice car. I may also end up selling it within 2-12 months depending on if the property I go ahead with has a parking space.
I've summarised the W212 is a car I've always liked, seemed to have stood the test of time for reliability and they're still a nice car that hopefully won't go really wrong, especially if it's 2/3 owners, FSH and had work done to it.
Not afraid of space miles, I'd rather buy a 160k car than 75k, but what engine?!
I don't want something that sounds crap, it's what's actually pushing me to the convertible and getting either the 350 or 5.5L petrol. I had a Z4 coupe before and loved the N/A power delivery and no turbo from my experience often means less problems, but what's the realistic side of owning a 5.5L petrol?
I'm just wondering if the jump between the E and C class is huge too in terms of quality. I also pondered an older S class but I think they're quite ugly, especially the red one I considered.
Budget is realistically 5k and under, I'd stretch to 10k if it's something beautiful. I also don't need practicality, the E class was just so it's likely to have been owned by someone who can afford to maintain them, but happy to consider other Mercs (I think it's an itch I need to scratch really).
Appreciate any other options too though, so feel free to make some summer recommendations.
Cheers
I'm currently in an odd situation where I've had a 330D XDrive for the last year from a friend and he's having it back in a couple of weeks. Long story short, buying a house so don't want to finance anything, also don't want to spend a fortune and lose loads of money but also want a nice car. I may also end up selling it within 2-12 months depending on if the property I go ahead with has a parking space.
I've summarised the W212 is a car I've always liked, seemed to have stood the test of time for reliability and they're still a nice car that hopefully won't go really wrong, especially if it's 2/3 owners, FSH and had work done to it.
Not afraid of space miles, I'd rather buy a 160k car than 75k, but what engine?!
I don't want something that sounds crap, it's what's actually pushing me to the convertible and getting either the 350 or 5.5L petrol. I had a Z4 coupe before and loved the N/A power delivery and no turbo from my experience often means less problems, but what's the realistic side of owning a 5.5L petrol?
I'm just wondering if the jump between the E and C class is huge too in terms of quality. I also pondered an older S class but I think they're quite ugly, especially the red one I considered.
Budget is realistically 5k and under, I'd stretch to 10k if it's something beautiful. I also don't need practicality, the E class was just so it's likely to have been owned by someone who can afford to maintain them, but happy to consider other Mercs (I think it's an itch I need to scratch really).
Appreciate any other options too though, so feel free to make some summer recommendations.
Cheers
Thanks for your reply. There’s an E class convertible 5.5 up right now with high mileage but for about half the price of the others. Common sense tells me a motorway mile 5.5 would’ve had a super easy life and should be reliable.
My issue is I do low mileage but long trips, being WFH I go into the office maybe once a week and I walk everywhere else so the car isn’t going to have a hard life regardless of diesel or petrol
My issue is I do low mileage but long trips, being WFH I go into the office maybe once a week and I walk everywhere else so the car isn’t going to have a hard life regardless of diesel or petrol
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