Hi there.
My second mod-life crisis has arrived so in a couple of months time I’m going to buy my first real AMG having previously owned two diesel Mercedes, one of which an AMG sport which embarrassingly my wife referred to as “my husbands AMG”
I’m in the UK and have a budget of up to £30k. I’ve been looking at what’s available for the last two months and I think I should be able to get a good facelift E, CL or CLS with 40-50k miles for that money.
Problem is that I’m not sure which.
Most of my mileage is likely to be longish distance on dual-carriageways/motorways probably with my wife and son so any of them will be a comfortable cruiser (so in that respect the CL appeals), but also want something fun when I’m by myself on normal roads (probably the E is better for that). I’ve always liked the look of the CLS and some of the facelift ones look great as so the facelifted CLs.
They will all be 5.5 biturbo or varying power, not averse to a trip to MSL for a tune but don’t want anything too mental/loud.
Any advice in terms of:
Buying guides/what to look out for, what to avoid, experience of any of them?
I’ll be keeping my current car for short cold start school runs etc, not bothered about MPG and to an extent maintenance having owned two Mercs and a BMW 540i V8 in the past but I know that some options (I.e. ceramic brake are eye watering to replace).
Ideally I’d want a car with contour/massaging seats and an LSD but could always have the latter fitted.
Any advice greatly appreciated
My second mod-life crisis has arrived so in a couple of months time I’m going to buy my first real AMG having previously owned two diesel Mercedes, one of which an AMG sport which embarrassingly my wife referred to as “my husbands AMG”
I’m in the UK and have a budget of up to £30k. I’ve been looking at what’s available for the last two months and I think I should be able to get a good facelift E, CL or CLS with 40-50k miles for that money.
Problem is that I’m not sure which.
Most of my mileage is likely to be longish distance on dual-carriageways/motorways probably with my wife and son so any of them will be a comfortable cruiser (so in that respect the CL appeals), but also want something fun when I’m by myself on normal roads (probably the E is better for that). I’ve always liked the look of the CLS and some of the facelift ones look great as so the facelifted CLs.
They will all be 5.5 biturbo or varying power, not averse to a trip to MSL for a tune but don’t want anything too mental/loud.
Any advice in terms of:
Buying guides/what to look out for, what to avoid, experience of any of them?
I’ll be keeping my current car for short cold start school runs etc, not bothered about MPG and to an extent maintenance having owned two Mercs and a BMW 540i V8 in the past but I know that some options (I.e. ceramic brake are eye watering to replace).
Ideally I’d want a car with contour/massaging seats and an LSD but could always have the latter fitted.
Any advice greatly appreciated
