How expensive is an expensive old e-class?
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Forgive me if already seen, but was doing my usual search for 500E Mercedes, the nice 326bhp sort from the nineties, and found something a bit hair raising!
I can imagine it making maybe a third of the money, go take a look in the classifieds. Maybe someone with better skills than me on my iPhone can then post a link, if you don't faint first.
I can imagine it making maybe a third of the money, go take a look in the classifieds. Maybe someone with better skills than me on my iPhone can then post a link, if you don't faint first.
CampDavid said:
£100,000 for an old Merc S-class. Someone's smoking something seriously good.
Oli.
Justayellowbadge said:
BlueMR2 said:
Spend half that, get an SL73.
The 73 for sale at that price was being touted at 80 odd a while ago.Hard to judge the market for things so rare.
Wasn't someone asking 100k+ for a Sierra recently?
Comparing it to modern saloons is ludicrous; it's a completely different market
CampDavid said:
Justayellowbadge said:
BlueMR2 said:
Spend half that, get an SL73.
The 73 for sale at that price was being touted at 80 odd a while ago.Hard to judge the market for things so rare.
Wasn't someone asking 100k+ for a Sierra recently?
Comparing it to modern saloons is ludicrous; it's a completely different market
Its a fast appreciating asset apparently, er, surely its done all the appreciating its ever going to do ?
Sure its a nice old thing and immaculate but 100 grand for an old Stuttgart Taxi with a big engine that looks a bit like a London Rude Boys car from 2001 ?
Is it a significant piece of automotive history or just a dealer with something a bit special that can bear to think they could have squeezed another couple of grand out of if they sell it somewhere near its true worth so they price it right out of the ball park and it hangs round for months ? Imagine trying to part ex it back and rattling on about the Apostles from AMG visiting Mercedes and selecting 12 cars, "Ill give you a monkey for it mate, not a diesel see, everyone wants the diesel ones", I jest but come on, its an old Merc, not the missing link.
Sure its a nice old thing and immaculate but 100 grand for an old Stuttgart Taxi with a big engine that looks a bit like a London Rude Boys car from 2001 ?
Is it a significant piece of automotive history or just a dealer with something a bit special that can bear to think they could have squeezed another couple of grand out of if they sell it somewhere near its true worth so they price it right out of the ball park and it hangs round for months ? Imagine trying to part ex it back and rattling on about the Apostles from AMG visiting Mercedes and selecting 12 cars, "Ill give you a monkey for it mate, not a diesel see, everyone wants the diesel ones", I jest but come on, its an old Merc, not the missing link.
J4CKO said:
Its a fast appreciating asset apparently, er, surely its done all the appreciating its ever going to do ?
Sure its a nice old thing and immaculate but 100 grand for an old Stuttgart Taxi with a big engine that looks a bit like a London Rude Boys car from 2001 ?
Is it a significant piece of automotive history or just a dealer with something a bit special that can bear to think they could have squeezed another couple of grand out of if they sell it somewhere near its true worth so they price it right out of the ball park and it hangs round for months ? Imagine trying to part ex it back and rattling on about the Apostles from AMG visiting Mercedes and selecting 12 cars, "Ill give you a monkey for it mate, not a diesel see, everyone wants the diesel ones", I jest but come on, its an old Merc, not the missing link.
Precisely. For the one right owner at the precisely right time, it may be worth a bit. But the seller will be waiting a long, long while for that owner to show up ... Sure its a nice old thing and immaculate but 100 grand for an old Stuttgart Taxi with a big engine that looks a bit like a London Rude Boys car from 2001 ?
Is it a significant piece of automotive history or just a dealer with something a bit special that can bear to think they could have squeezed another couple of grand out of if they sell it somewhere near its true worth so they price it right out of the ball park and it hangs round for months ? Imagine trying to part ex it back and rattling on about the Apostles from AMG visiting Mercedes and selecting 12 cars, "Ill give you a monkey for it mate, not a diesel see, everyone wants the diesel ones", I jest but come on, its an old Merc, not the missing link.
Oli.
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