Mercedes CL's..

[Nob]

Those BMW 840's & 850's are really cheap & packed with many options

 

[legrandefromage]

Passat W8...

on paper its faster than a CL

 

[drcarlos]

For sports, maybe a Honda NSX?

Carl.

 

[mattr]

All Mercs built after the 190E were crap. PHAKT.


Also, Cosworth didn't just do Sierras:

There was a Merc Cosworth abandoned in the village near to us, unfortunately the registration wasn't traceable, so it was left, rotting and rusting until the council took it away and crushed it.

 

[Nob]

RS200 anyone

 

[Negawsklov]

I've got the Aston back for a month!!

 

[swannymere]

Have a read of this thread on my Mercedes forum, it seems if you buy cheap with the knowledge that you will have to spend £k's to get it sorted you will get a very good car for the money.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general- ... i-mad.html

 

[ovlov440]

Not much use but my mechanic would strongly advise not to buy a Merc - buy an Audi. That is what he said when i told him i was thinking of buying something other than an Audi.

You could get an Audi S8 2002 for around £5000 - original price was over £79,000. MPG is around 12. Servicing is expensive as the bits are expensive. Try and get one with a good gearbox as a replacement costs £4000 PLUS labour. When i win the lottery, I will be buying my mechanic's S8 and he knows it.

Richard

- agreed - loved the original Audi A8/S8 - best looking car they have ever produced IMHO

 

[drcarlos]

Have a read of this thread on my Mercedes forum, it seems if you buy cheap with the knowledge that you will have to spend £k's to get it sorted you will get a very good car for the money.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general- ... i-mad.html

That guy had a quote for 9k to get it sorted, admittedly that was the MB dealers, but what my ex-neighbour found is that it's the parts that cost, they are all bespoke to the larger engined cars, each part was 1k mimimum, he had a starter , 1k, an alternator, 1k, a radiator, 1k, 2 ignition amplifiers, 1k each. Every time it needed one of these parts it took several weeks to arrive as it always had to be ordered from MB in Germany, leaving it off the road for weeks at a time. It would then be fixed and work for a few weeks and break again. The parts were always fitted at independent specialists, in the end when the suspension collapsed he gave up and just left it on the road. There was a guy on that thread saying they were money pits and he's not wrong I've seen first hand the worst of them. His was a decent low mileage (60k when he got it), 1 owner, fully serviced all it's life at MB car.

Carl.

 

[Geoff]

If you do want a CL, I'd suggest going for a base spec CL500. None of them are gonna be cheap to run, but the CL500 would be the least outrageous. The CL55s were a bit more problematic, the CL600s...well, NOT a cheap car to keep going (good fun though, I worked for MB when they were current and drove them a lot).