E320 Prices are bizarre or simply people are assuming all secondhand cars are worthless and you can pick up a mint E320 M Reg for 2300 to 3500. Or... I got lucky and the other cheap ones are dogs. However, I do sincerely believe that all E Coupes will become sought after. Even the Carrot Douch Chalets. the tired old dogs will be scrapped or suddenly become worth two grand....trade ins. and the ones left will be worth something. the last mark of Engineer vs Budget victory, by a company who knew a thing or two.
Hmmm.
Temporarily I have a CE and E320 C124 and have been driving the 95 in the morning and the 89 in the evening. The difference is huge. i dont mean in terms of power but in terms of sound, vibration, wind noise, handling, braking etc, and a different character. No ones really interested in the E, but the CE got looks and admiration.
Oddly the CE was 15 when I bought it, same ages as the E is now. the CE has 121 on the clock and the E has 114. the CE had ****e tyres, a few days of MOT left and the elderly owner said never missed a beat that car, and its not as juicy as you think, I bought it in Devon, and drove back to surrey in a wet summers night which cleared into a beautiful starry pillarless experience.
The CE had new tyres, new pads and had just had a £737 service. But i couldnt help thinking a lights going to come on any minute saying go to HSBC, withdraw £200, and hope.
The previous owner was the Late Terry Boyce. "Boycie" I thought as i selected D, if your a villain, i'll find you, I'll come looking in the CE and black out the windows and park outside your house, Terry's long gone, but the mental images of the cars former life flood my mind. World of leather faced ladies with leopard skin bags and dodgy haircuts, sitting the back while Terry and his pal sat in the front cruise through Romford going to a party at someone essex mansion...maybe.
Terry's last bill was a shocker £737, Silly Terry was still going to Mr Main Dealer. Talk about a target, taking an old car to a Main Dealer shouts I'm loaded f-me over now. Terry's last payment off the £42k price and, horror of horror the service costs more. Aaghh. and Terry is no longer Merry.
For example mines semi poverty, no ac no cruise, but does have a few toys, the leathers still very supportive and un bolster battered, but the Velour seats in the 300CE are more comfy, and electric adjusting which is miles better, no question about it. Go from adjusting twice a day to just sitting there. The e320 has no glove box, its now a self inflating dolly bird with illuminous breasts. apparently. no glove box ? means all your stuff takes off when the windows down as they will be as there's no air con and its 2009 not 2008/07. No vanity mirrors either. i so miss doing a danny la rue while waiting for SWMBO or some drunk **** who thinks I'm a cabbie. the 300CE had a bit of dont f. with me image to it for some reason where the E320 just has nice old merc.
The CE probably escorted muscle around hackney once or coke snorting property developers with nasty mates, look twice and it'll have you. No really, it will. it also has a bit of Terminator two about it. Sooner or later it will repair itself and keep coming for you, mile after mile.
the E320 will just wait, you know you want some more but you dont want the neighbours to know, nor the wife.
The E320 meanwhile took ladies that do lunch and self made money men who knew a classy motor when they saw one. Eventually as it aged it finds itself belonging to people who feel the same way as the first owner did and decide to keep it as immacualte as possible and enjoy the journey to mintdom.
the Rads different, the lights different front and rear, the Boots different (filler only) the paints montone. and you know you'd want to strip the skirts, and then your slipping into full refurb territory.
, the Dash is diffeent the silly economy gauge has gone for starters.
So. in other words, dont spend a grand making a Porsche look like a Ferrari when the clever man can have both.
