MarkwithaMerc
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- May 28, 2008
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- Location
- Heathfield, East Sussex
- Your Mercedes
- 1964 S Type Jaguar, 2001 E240 Estate
I have just returned again from a trip to Singapore, living in Malaysia and travelling to the Jurong shipyards and back each day.
One of the Singaporean guys who drove me was a shipyard 'driver' and as far as i could make out, had not a lot of employment except driving. Maybe i was wrong 'cos one Sunday morning he turned up to collect me at the Puteri Pacific hotel in Johor Bahru in a 6000km old black S300 saloon! I was very pleased to be driven in such luxury as i had never been in a modern petrol engined Mercedes. (I have an E240 but with a beautiful smooth engine but it is 2001 vintage!).
I asked this guy, in a roundabout way, how much it cost him to put it on the road. He told me S$300,000! Thats about GBP150,000!
He never took the car outside Singapore except on Sunday morning to get it washed and waxed in Malayasia and coming back over the causeway into Singapore he refused to wind the window down for Immigration: he would open the door and get out himself in case the window seal marked the retracted glass!
His normal weekday taxi transport was an E200 Komp. which had 286000 km on it and he still treated that as if it were made of gold!
How the other Mercedes drivers life eh! I wonder what happens to these cars when they are sold? Someone told me they are broken-up after a few years!
One of the Singaporean guys who drove me was a shipyard 'driver' and as far as i could make out, had not a lot of employment except driving. Maybe i was wrong 'cos one Sunday morning he turned up to collect me at the Puteri Pacific hotel in Johor Bahru in a 6000km old black S300 saloon! I was very pleased to be driven in such luxury as i had never been in a modern petrol engined Mercedes. (I have an E240 but with a beautiful smooth engine but it is 2001 vintage!).
I asked this guy, in a roundabout way, how much it cost him to put it on the road. He told me S$300,000! Thats about GBP150,000!
He never took the car outside Singapore except on Sunday morning to get it washed and waxed in Malayasia and coming back over the causeway into Singapore he refused to wind the window down for Immigration: he would open the door and get out himself in case the window seal marked the retracted glass!
His normal weekday taxi transport was an E200 Komp. which had 286000 km on it and he still treated that as if it were made of gold!
How the other Mercedes drivers life eh! I wonder what happens to these cars when they are sold? Someone told me they are broken-up after a few years!
