I'm on my 3rd Benz, a 98 e430. I'd have to say that I probably won't ever buy another brand of car. My first was a 92 400e and it had 137K on it when I bought it. I drove it for a year, put an engine harness on it, and put 50K miles on it, and sold it for what I paid for it. It had 187K miles on it so that taught me about MB relaibility. My second one was a 95e 320, a bit underpowered after the 400e, but nice and rock solid none the less. I drove it for less than a year and made 3K on it. So who ever says MB can't be affordable was wrong.