It just turned out that way I suppose.
I had been looking at ML‘s on Mercedes Direct website, and saw a couple of very low mileage 08 cars which seemed good value. I know fuel prices are unlikely to fall in the future and the 4x4 may be an endangered species, but it does mean there are some bargains to be had.
My wife has hankered after an elevated driving position for some time, so as she has been in my ‘cast off’ E Class estate for over a year I said we would go and have a look on Sunday.
We drove a 08 red ML 320CDI Sport, but she was not keen on the colour and complained that the car had ‘a bit of a tilt’ whilst cornering. The finer points of the effects of a high centre of gravity would not have been the right conversation at that point, but there was a similar one in Tansanite blue with Airmatic available a few miles away. This had Alpaca grey inside and struck us both as being very classy. The ride quality was a big improvement and the car sat noticeably more level during cornering.
I hadn’t really spotted that it was the end of the month, but the staff were tripping over themselves to do a deal and deliver a car in 24hrs. I had done a little research and figured that the residuals of a 08 ML and a 06 E Class estate would be about £10k apart in two years time, so the cost of having the ML would be the price I could negotiate to change less that 10k.
I either got a massive discount on the ML or they paid way over book for the E, but a deal was struck and I am now the proud owner of a 3600 mile old ML.
I didn’t tell them that the registration plate was my wife’s initials or that the blue was my favourite colour! It also has COMAND, tow bar, CD changer, phone pre-wire and Parktronic. I will miss the memory seats, at least for the first few seconds I get in, but the Airmatic I will appreciate every mile I travel.
Given my wife’s vast shoe collection, there is another connection with ML d’Marcos!
I had been looking at ML‘s on Mercedes Direct website, and saw a couple of very low mileage 08 cars which seemed good value. I know fuel prices are unlikely to fall in the future and the 4x4 may be an endangered species, but it does mean there are some bargains to be had.
My wife has hankered after an elevated driving position for some time, so as she has been in my ‘cast off’ E Class estate for over a year I said we would go and have a look on Sunday.
We drove a 08 red ML 320CDI Sport, but she was not keen on the colour and complained that the car had ‘a bit of a tilt’ whilst cornering. The finer points of the effects of a high centre of gravity would not have been the right conversation at that point, but there was a similar one in Tansanite blue with Airmatic available a few miles away. This had Alpaca grey inside and struck us both as being very classy. The ride quality was a big improvement and the car sat noticeably more level during cornering.
I hadn’t really spotted that it was the end of the month, but the staff were tripping over themselves to do a deal and deliver a car in 24hrs. I had done a little research and figured that the residuals of a 08 ML and a 06 E Class estate would be about £10k apart in two years time, so the cost of having the ML would be the price I could negotiate to change less that 10k.
I either got a massive discount on the ML or they paid way over book for the E, but a deal was struck and I am now the proud owner of a 3600 mile old ML.
I didn’t tell them that the registration plate was my wife’s initials or that the blue was my favourite colour! It also has COMAND, tow bar, CD changer, phone pre-wire and Parktronic. I will miss the memory seats, at least for the first few seconds I get in, but the Airmatic I will appreciate every mile I travel.
Given my wife’s vast shoe collection, there is another connection with ML d’Marcos!
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