Agreed. I believe it's the accumulated miles/year and not just total miles.

That said, I would be more inclined to buy a vehicle with a lot of highway miles as opposed to an extremely low-mileage version of the same model. Seliing price would be advantageous on the high-mileage version as well.

A neighbor of mine had a power steering pump replaced three times on an R129 that had less than 10K on the odometer, but pretty much was a decade-old garage queen. MB designed their vehicles to be driven, not sitting in a glass case.

I did trade my 99 ML for the 07 I have now. The 99 had 99K on the clock at the time. Despite the pre-00 W163 horror stories it was actually quite reliable. But after pouring in a ton of money into my W124 for the top-end rebuild and emissions corrections, I decided I wasn't going to gamble on whether an expensive ML repair would be looming in the horizon...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car