I feel your pain. I was very close to buying a new camry for my wife. She has been driving a 1996 camry for almost 8 years. The deal was to get her a new one this year when my daughter gets her liscense. Well when I bought my 1985 500sel my wife fell in love with the car. She almost took it over. I wanted to keep it garaged and babied like the previous owner did for more than 20 years. She wanted to start driving it to work and around town. (blessing in disguise). She started to see and feel the difference in the camry and the mercedes engineering and responsiveness. It turns out I was able to convince her to get a mint 1993 320e. for $6500.00. The new camry was gonna cost $25,000. Turns out that I saved almost 20 grand and now have another mercedes in the stable. Life is good. Plan on taking the 20 grand savings and pay the house off early. WOW!!. She now complains about the camry feeling too light and not as tight as the mercedes 320e. I just told her that she made a wise choice. The mercedes is 14 years old, but a new camry could not have possibly been a better choice period. Boy, 20 grand in savings. The mercedes is paid for, but the camry was gonna set us back $450.00 every month. Go figure. You guys just don't know how happy I am right now. Life is truly good.