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davestlouis · #1 12-10-2005, 09:32 PM

I'm a little puzzled by something...my 17 year old destroyed her car and is doing without for awhile, so I have been driving her and her brother to high school every morning. I normally drive a shiny dark green 98 Cadillac Deville, it's a very clean, low mile car. None of the kids mine go to school with have said anything about it, good, bad or indifferent. I drove them one day in my beater 1986 420SEL. They both came home that night raving about all the comments from other students, asking which subdivision we live in, because we must be rich?!
I can't understand why the perceived value of a 19 year old, beat up SEL is so much greater than that of a 7 year old, clean Deville.
Any comments?

Azimyth · #2 12-10-2005, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by davestlouis

I'm a little puzzled by something...my 17 year old destroyed her car and is doing without for awhile, so I have been driving her and her brother to high school every morning. I normally drive a shiny dark green 98 Cadillac Deville, it's a very clean, low mile car. None of the kids mine go to school with have said anything about it, good, bad or indifferent. I drove them one day in my beater 1986 420SEL. They both came home that night raving about all the comments from other students, asking which subdivision we live in, because we must be rich?!
I can't understand why the perceived value of a 19 year old, beat up SEL is so much greater than that of a 7 year old, clean Deville.
Any comments?

#3 12-10-2005, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Azimyth

BINGO

This last spring the daughter of a friend of my wife asked me if I would chauffer her and her date to the prom in my 1999 E300. She had not even seen the car. She just knew that I had a newer Merc and that is what she wanted to ride in to arrive at the prom.

Ara T. · #4 12-10-2005, 10:23 PM

Mercedes has obviously spent hundreds of billions of trillions of millions of dollars building this image. It obviously works, hopefully they can bring quality up though.

davestlouis · #5 12-10-2005, 10:36 PM

I work at a multi-line luxury dealership and when I was pondering buying my first M-B I called one of the Mercedes service writers and asked her what the main issues were with the car I was thinking about buying. Her response was "the 3-pointed star on the hood". I keep hearing horror stories from service on the new production cars, especially E-Class. The tow truck driver we use drives old W114's as beaters, but he pointed out that he never has to tow a Lexus unless it's wrecked, but could get rich towing newer Mercedes that won't start in the morning.

Austin85 · #6 12-11-2005, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by davestlouis

I work at a multi-line luxury dealership and when I was pondering buying my first M-B I called one of the Mercedes service writers and asked her what the main issues were with the car I was thinking about buying. Her response was "the 3-pointed star on the hood". I keep hearing horror stories from service on the new production cars, especially E-Class. The tow truck driver we use drives old W114's as beaters, but he pointed out that he never has to tow a Lexus unless it's wrecked, but could get rich towing newer Mercedes that won't start in the morning.

Ditto on that. An ex girlfriend had a Lexus, when I was with her. Then I left so in order to get another guy, (-: I guess...she got one of those '04 new M-B 2 seat convertables....NIce lookin but , next time I ran into her she had a new Volvo that was in the shop all the time, and got rid of the M-B because of all the trouble it gave her.....