mspaul

This seems to be a good deal but wanted to check with you guys:
2012 S400 17k miles, one owner selling for 46500 with tax.
MSRP: 102k

MBNUT1

seems like a good price for such a low mileage car

Mike5215

Yeah, that sounds about $10k low for the year and mileage. Sometimes mileage is low because the car was barely driven. Other times it's low because it was sitting in a body shop for six months. Check the CarFax and have your local dealer pull the internal service history. If those are straight I'd move on the car.

corsaschnell

The S400 is a Hybrid, right? The question you want to ask yourself is if you will be happier with an S550 (all petrol car) or a Hybrid S Class.

Nothing against Hybrids but MB is in its infancy with hybrid technology and one must look into battery life and overall reliability of an S Class hybrid.

The MPG difference will be negligible. After your research drive both back to back and decide.

Good Luck!

mspaul

Thank you for the feedback. I could not resist and made the purchase.
Carfax was clean and checking on the warranty: Hybrid car battery is covered under warranty for 10 yr or 150k miles.
Will get the car on friday.

androdev

That's the only way to go about these things :-) Congrats!

Mike5215

Yes. When it comes to the S Class I'm pretty much a "ready-fire-aim" kind of guy too. Post pics!

MBNUT1

Congrats I think that you made a great purchase. Full driving experience write-up requested.

Mike5215

I think they consider it a "mild hybrid" which is to say that it's got a conventional gasoline engine with some assist from a small electric motor. It was always a quirky fit for the 221 and that's probably being reflected in the resale value. Personally in a '12 I'd want the 550 just to get the twin turbo V8, but a nice S is a nice S regardless of drive train.

Nuru

Congrats on the new unit!

Its either the S350 or the S400 for S Luxury and more mpg.

Mike5215

True. The TD really is a smart engine choice...you get great torque and great MPG but for some reason they don't catch on here. What kind of MPG are you getting?

Nuru

No long trips yet, but on 50 - 70 mile trips I have observed 32 - 33 at very good clip. The car can get higher mpg but I gotta get more enthusiastic about mpg versus the smooth, speed of the car. It is no S550, but it is not a slug either.

Yeah, I cannot figure that out either - I would think with our current high gas prices, the diesel with high torque, high mileage capability would be very attractive, plus the car is very quiet.