All our friends are wondering about us too when they have seen our Mercedes, Is business that good? Many do not know a new one from an older one. As long as it is shiny.
My wife had someone who is acquainted with us stop and ask her about it today while we were stopped at the post office. Usually the same person just nods. The Gal drives a nice jeep and gets a new one every few years.
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Originally Posted by Zacharias
The perception of Mercedes is a deep rooted one in most people. I have told endless stories at the office about what you mention, and generally I get back in return stares like I'm trying to teach my dogs chinese.
I sort of tuned a local guy who runs a very small shop into the Mercedes thing. He is from europe and worked on them over the years but never thought about buying one, more into the VW/Audi thing. I convinced him to keep a '99 e300 that he had bought to fix up and resell.
One year later and he has sold off the other family cars -- now his wife and teen daughter both have early 2000s C-Class. He has hardly put any money into any of them and he buys very cheap, travels hundreds of miles to scoop them up in out of the way places, usually with some fault the local talent can't fix.
Meanwhile, however, his daughter has now reported back that her friends are sheepishly telling her that their parents have been voicing concern over them hanging around with her... the neighbourhood intel is that he's importing drugs from europe on the side. (Three! Mercedes in the driveway... three!)
The people saying this all have one or more newer SUVs/minivans and second cars in their driveways....
(Drugs? FROM europe?)
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