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Originally Posted by Germanauto
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Originally Posted by stein_325i
Mercedes and Porsche are probably my favorites, I appreciate both of them from a historical and current perspective with their cars as well as I really like their lineups.
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I don't know why I never really got into Mercs. I love brands with pedigree and history, Mercedes is full of that. Something about their styling and driving character never resonated with me. Their golden age with models the W126, W140, R107 etc were before my time. Growing up Mercs tended to feel cheaply built and now they make way too many watered down models that are far too common.
I'd certainly like to own a Mercedes at some point, but it will likely be a classic. Maybe a W126 or R107. My buddy had an 86 500SL in red on palomino with chrome-plated wheels and it was beautiful. Classic Mercedes bank vault doors and proper old money look. |
My aunt and uncle were the black sheeps of our BMW only family and had numerous different MB's, mainly E and S-Class' (although they weren't called that back in the day). They had everything from the W126 to W123's, W124's and even still have MB's today. The classics are definitely cool and represent a different era, when MB's were more prestigious and for the rich, but sadly if they were to keep building cars like that they would have been non-existant as the W140 and rise of the Japanese (Lexus) caused significant financial problems to which only the dreadful Daimler-Chrysler era could have solved.
I have a friend who has got over 200,000 miles on his 82 380SL. Its been a bit battered and bruised by previous owners but he's hoping to restore it to its former glory. My goal now is definitely to get an AMG V8 of some sort before its gone.