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Originally Posted by V12crazy
I have a 1998 BMW 750IL in mint condition and just love the V-12 which is addictive. However, I have been tempted to convert to a 1992 600 SEL which is on sale and with only 5,600 miles, a real factory fresh time warp.
The owner is asking a whopping $28K and understandably so so it may be the lowest mileage W-140 in existence. I have seen it, and it is virtually flawless. But i dont know if it is worth it.
Any opinions? I am a BMW guy and love my car, but such an exclusive and low mileage car is really tempting.
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Visualize a pack of rabid wolves after your wallet.
Of course, if you can afford to run a '98 750il, which to me is the most sinfully sexy looking modern sedan there is, bar NONE, then you can probably afford to run a '92 600SEL. They had about 409 horsepower.
Those 750ils could get really expensive, with dipixillating dashboards, wonky electronics and the like.
Some car magazine published a poem about them once.
"No matter how hard
I sweat and toil
I still can't afford
A 750il"
I'd say pick whichever you fancy. Both are really impressive, great looking autobahn munchers, fantastic long distance cruisers. I'm sure you
would really love either of them.
Sounds like he wants all the money for the 600SEL though, for that it had better be in mint,time warp condition.
Tatty high milers can run $6,000 for the same car.
If you want a really
EXCLUSIVE W140, get a mint Obsidian black '1999 500SEL "Grand Edition".
Only 500 were imported, and they were the last, and very best, examples of the W140, with the troublesome wiring harness, soft close doors, air conditioning evaporator issues solved by then.
The "Grand" came with the well sorted 500 engine, which gave about 80% of the accelleration of the V12 without the maintenance costs of them, the ultra exclusivity of being the last year, and limited edition of the car.
All of them were black, had a special birdseye maple trimmed interior, special Grand Edition floormats, door sills, AMG wheels, and other options specific to it.
The 500 engine is perfectly suited to that vehicle. I'd get the "Grand", myself...
One of these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1999-MERCEDES-BENZ-S500-GRAND-EDITION-RARE_W0QQitemZ290136717218QQihZ019QQcategoryZ6336QQcmdZViewItem
Every now and then a really nice one (not saying that the ebay car is one of them, of course) shows up for sale..