I've noticed that the second 2008 E320 Bluetec buyback car (read: LEMON LAW) listed in the past 2 weeks on ebay. That's certainly a disturbing trend.
It's interesting to see them come up for sale and I wonder why they are having such problems fixing issues that they are forced into buying the cars back (typically the law calls for at least 3 attempts to fix a problem before the manufacturer is required to take them back). Of course the sellers play down the issue and re-assure a buyer with the "remaining manufacturer's warranty will still be honored" but the fact that Mercedes had to purchase the cars back and the titles are marked as such is nothing they should be proud of.
One thing a buyer should know is that once these cars are resold
the buyers no longer have any protection under the lemon law because they are now "used cars". Basically they could be stuck with a lemon that spends as much time in the shop as in their driveways and there is nothing they can do about it.
I also know that even though these are "voluntary" buybacks they basically only buyback a car when they know they would be forced to if the owner goes through the lemon-law process. Here are the two which I saw...I wonder how many more are out there?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180405680542&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:MOTORS:1123
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/08-E320-Bluetec-Diesel-black-black-navi-pano-roof-lk-nw_W0QQitemZ180410693950QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item2a0150b93e&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245