CLS 55 Next year!

[ChrisCLS55]

The CLS 55 is an amazing car in every way. Its a bit Jekyll and Hyde really. One minute its a luxurious cruising machine, the next an untamed wild animal. Its anything you as a driver wants it to be basically.

Stick it in comfort mode and ease around the motorway at 60-70 in the figure hugging seats or put it into sport and slam down hard on that accelerator and its a hard nosed racer.

It for me is one of the best cars MB have ever made, and better than the 63 IMO. I'm biased as I own one and its my dream car, but its immense. Mine draws constant attention from young lads to old skool MB owners wherever I go.

Mine is over 10 years old and it looks as fresh today as it was when it came out. I deliberately parked mine next to the new CLS recently and I prefer mine, its sleeker and more refined. The new shape looks like someone rubbed out the front and back sleek lines and replaced them with squarer, boxier lines.

It will hopefully become a future classic one day, the CLS 55.

If you have the chance to get one, get one. You won't be disappointed. I don't know whether to keep mine or sell it, I hardly use it and I'm the kind of guy who loves cars to the extent I keep lusting after one all the time so I'm always looking at buying something different.

They are epic machines though.

 

[Suky Sangha]

I love my cls 55 AMG get one and see

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[C240Sport97]

I have had mine for nearly 6 years and driven around 50k miles in it.

I get a buzz still when I get in and drive.

I have never had any other car for this long and driven so far in it.

 

[350_Coupe]

The Maserati 4200 Cambiocorsa's are climbing in price, what i looked at in 2104, will now cost you about £2,500 more, a good one will likely be out of your budget now, you want the facelift models, about 2004/5/6, but a service can run you over 2 grand if the clutch needs adjusting, these can be nice cars, but expensive to run, avoid the previous 3200 model, they were nowhere near as reliable.

 

[rockits]

I agree that the decent facelift 4200's are going up in price now. I would say that as I have one! However decent ones are getting harder to find. They are rare to start with as I think were are only 89 RHD facelift cars built.

Mine is a 2007/07 with 12k miles on the clock and it is pretty much almost as new. Sits in the garage in an OEM soft indoor cover on a trickle charger not in use. I would not sell her at all as it is a keeper but it is worth £27500 private and £30k retail at the moment. Took me a year to find it and looked past many others prior to finding this one.

Fantastic car to own and drive. Not much around like it which is why I took the plunge last year. I agree that the facelift 4200 is a more sensible proposition than an earlier 4200 or a previous model 3200.

 

[350_Coupe]

sounds like a lovely (and pampered) example and yeah, 2006 and later the price goes up fast, i would love a 2007 one, but i'd need to use it all the time, and that, was one of the things i had to consider, i'd potentially be back to buying a cheap thing to run in the worst weather of the year !

 

[rockits]

I agree & nearly bought a cheap higher mileage Gransport as a daily but it was a bit too rough round the edges.

My 4200 is becoming a bit of a garage queen now as it should be kept in top condition really. It is too good to use too much as the condition would suffer.

I did get it serviced with Mario's @ Autoshield last year though & he decatted the secondary cats for me and replaced the rear silencers for straight through sections. It does sound very nice now albeit maybe just a smidge too loud. Rather it too loud though than too quiet. Stock 3200, 4200 & GS's are very quiet really. Many have had exhaust mods to increase volume levels a bit.

The 2007 QP with Richard Grace is a lot of car for the money & very tempting!

 

[350_Coupe]

Those Quattroportes' have a very strange resale value right now, prices are wide and varied, and yes... huge amount of car for your money

 

[rockits]

Yup, indeed. Very wide spread on the QP V's at the moment. The badly looked after and/or higher mileage ones are worth so much less in most people's eye than a decently looked after one that has always had money spent on it and rightly so.

Reason mainly being that if a clutch needs changing with attached parts, labour then adjustment you are looking at £4k with a decent indy often. Buy one with this just done or one that needs it doing soon and that alone accounts for a wide enough spread. Factor in new or old tyres, brakes etc. and the spread can be accounted by these few consumables alone.

 

[7om]

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