Wow, the big C140 picture, besides leaving me breathless for a while, reminded me again on WHY do I love my S 500 L and all W/C140s above everything and anything.

The W140 is to me just the best car in the world, period!

I have a friend who owns a pristine 1998 CL500 fully optioned as my S 500 L. I drove her car many miles before buying mine (thinking I would get the coupe rather than the sedan), but I found the coupe (as beautiful as it is) a little tight on space compared to the long wheel base sedan.

The coupe's windscreen is a little too small compared to the sedan's, and the ride from the LWB sedan is more comfortable than the coupe's (NOT that the ride of the CL is bad -JimF is going to hate me for this comment-, but the battleship proportions of the LWB gives it a SLIGHT edge on ride comfort).

Anyway, there are all types of horror stories about the maintenance costs of a W140, most of them true. But, if you are careful and get a car with a good service history and decent mileage, it should be O.K. (not cheap, but OK).

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A. Rosich
CL 500, 1998
S 500 L, 1998
E 320 T, 1995 [Sadly sold ]