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Originally Posted by lorainfurniture
One major thing IMO is how difficult it is to make your Benz "yours". What I mean is the lack of modifiable aspects of the Benz. You can buy a bolt on turbo kit for a honda but to do the same to a merc is a $pecial club. Bmw has dinan and others, merc has nothing.
I see a lot of younger people driving 300e's because they are pretty cheap to buy ATM. There is very little to invest in them modification wise, so once the car becomes a nuisance the love affair quickly ends because the equity (both emotionally and financially) is small.
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I call BS on that.
There is a tuner market for Mercedes Benz, going back to the early 80s.
Kleeman, pre-merger AMG, Remus, Wald, Lorinser, MKB, Brabus, Carat-Duchalet, SGS and several more tuners, just from Germany, Holland and Austria, alone, spring instantly to mind.
My personal rides -- the '91 560SEC and '95 e420 each feature Remus exhaust and AMG pentas/monoblocks, and the 560 has AMG headers and downpipes on it and the e420 has a Lorinser spoiler.
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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...
1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)
2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd
Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp
1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k
2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive
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