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Old 05-11-2010, 12:33 AM
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Owned an Infiniti M35x, Drives an 08 S550 4matic
What is the best color on an S550?

What is your opinion on this?

What exterior and interior color best fits an S550? and does the color option say anything about the personality of the owner?
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CL65 AMG , white S550 Sport w/ white Giovanna 22s, wild custom chopper
i have to agree w/ the arctic white, panoramic roof and tan interior. black on black would be my second choice.
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Iridium Silver/Black

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Palladium Silver/Black
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Iridium Silver/Black of course

followed by

Palladium Silver/Black

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Arctic White/Black

All with pano of course
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Originally Posted by WhitePano
white w/ pano + amg package


White or silver with pano. Black or peanut butter inside
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CL65 AMG , white S550 Sport w/ white Giovanna 22s, wild custom chopper
actually, yes! the arctic white w/ black interior kills the white/peanut butter combination... that's what i originally wanted, but ended up settling for the tan interior and no pano roof since i was buying the car at the auction.

Originally Posted by jta00r1
White w/pano, amg and black interior.
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Originally Posted by CL55_Serge
actually, yes! the arctic white w/ black interior kills the white/peanut butter combination... that's what i originally wanted, but ended up settling for the tan interior and no pano roof since i was buying the car at the auction.
off topic, but How was your experience buying the car from an auction? Would you suggest it to anyone else?
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CL65 AMG , white S550 Sport w/ white Giovanna 22s, wild custom chopper
it's the only way to go for me - i bought my S600 coupe back in the day that way, CL55 for half price w/ 27k miles in '04 and bought my wife's S550 w/ around 25k miles for $55k last summer (distronic, P2, AMG, 22" wheels on the car). All are lease returns, but it took me months to find one i wanted a lot of looking at vin numbers and auction previews web pages... The two options I could not find a car that met my criteria was ABC and pano roof... I guess finders aren't choosers

Gotta be careful with auction cars. It's nice if you see the report or the car first hand. A lot of **** cars running around at 2nd hand dealers that were low quality auction cars that were made cosmetically nice and resold...

Originally Posted by Wantmy1stbenz
off topic, but How was your experience buying the car from an auction? Would you suggest it to anyone else?
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Designo Graphite/Black interior, white with pano/black
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Originally Posted by CL55_Serge
it's the only way to go for me - i bought my S600 coupe back in the day that way, CL55 for half price w/ 27k miles in '04 and bought my wife's S550 w/ around 25k miles for $55k last summer (distronic, P2, AMG, 22" wheels on the car). All are lease returns, but it took me months to find one i wanted a lot of looking at vin numbers and auction previews web pages... The two options I could not find a car that met my criteria was ABC and pano roof... I guess finders aren't choosers

Gotta be careful with auction cars. It's nice if you see the report or the car first hand. A lot of **** cars running around at 2nd hand dealers that were low quality auction cars that were made cosmetically nice and resold...


How/where do you goto preview auction vehicles and I thought abc was a standard option on all of the s550's except 4matics
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How/where do you goto preview auction vehicles and I thought abc was a standard option on all of the s550's except 4matics
www.manheim.com - need a broker/dealer account. ABC is not standard on the '07-'09, Airmatic is.
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Originally Posted by Wantmy1stbenz
How/where do you goto preview auction vehicles and I thought abc was a standard option on all of the s550's except 4matics
You gotta have an access to Manheim website. Only dealers registered in Manheim have access to it. Friend of mine gave me his ID and i'm browsing it contantly for post-sale reports. Very interesting stuff.
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Originally Posted by aeggroup
You gotta have an access to Manheim website. Only dealers registered in Manheim have access to it. Friend of mine gave me his ID and i'm browsing it contantly for post-sale reports. Very interesting stuff.

So when you log into the site you actually get to see all the info and see pics of the car? So can ya tell me how much an 07' sport and pano costs now?
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Originally Posted by Wantmy1stbenz
So when you log into the site you actually get to see all the info and see pics of the car? So can ya tell me how much an 07' sport and pano costs now?
Not so simple.
For pre-sale report - you can see car's model, VIN number and ( most important ) who's the seller of this car. I'm not a dealer, but I think you wanna see seller MB Financial services, which means this is lease return.
Now, knowing VIN# you go to your nearest MB dealership and run report to see all data for this car ( options and service history ). There are not a lot of S's on auctions, so you choose couple cars that have options you want and trying to buy them if you like it in person.
This is how I understand this process. I'm leasing, so I never did this way. May be somebody else can guide you better....

GL.
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Originally Posted by aeggroup
Not so simple.
For pre-sale report - you can see car's model, VIN number and ( most important ) who's the seller of this car. I'm not a dealer, but I think you wanna see seller MB Financial services, which means this is lease return.
Now, knowing VIN# you go to your nearest MB dealership and run report to see all data for this car ( options and service history ). There are not a lot of S's on auctions, so you choose couple cars that have options you want and trying to buy them if you like it in person.
This is how I understand this process. I'm leasing, so I never did this way. May be somebody else can guide you better....

GL.
thank alot! The pre sale info is what I'm really interested and by the vin you can see all the options. Thanks and I will be looking at the auction vehicles at manheim.
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A Mercedes obviously!
Isn't this thread basically people saying 'what I have'
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I have the Black on Black with pano roof, but I do like the Arctic White with black, tan or creme interior.
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Originally Posted by CL55_Serge
ABC is not standard on the '07-'09, Airmatic is.
ABC is not standard on MY2010 S550 either.
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It is on 2011...

Originally Posted by skrontz
ABC is not standard on MY2010 S550 either.


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