GLE350 - chick car?
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GLE350 - chick car?
We bought my wife's CPO 2016 in December 2018. Paid around $39k out the door with 22k on the odo.
She's had it a year now and hates it basically because it isn't big enough the doesn't like the sensitive throttle. She also said it's too much of a chick car. LOL - that one kind of shocked me. Did did get rid of a Yukon to get the GLE though but always *****ed about not being able to park it in all of the tight lots.
Recently tried to trade out of it into a GLS450 and they wanted to give me $25k. No way I was going to take that kind of hit and told my wife to make nice with the car because she'll be in it a couple of more years.
She's had it a year now and hates it basically because it isn't big enough the doesn't like the sensitive throttle. She also said it's too much of a chick car. LOL - that one kind of shocked me. Did did get rid of a Yukon to get the GLE though but always *****ed about not being able to park it in all of the tight lots.
Recently tried to trade out of it into a GLS450 and they wanted to give me $25k. No way I was going to take that kind of hit and told my wife to make nice with the car because she'll be in it a couple of more years.
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Put her in a CRV for a few months and I bet her tune will change. Last month we bought a ‘16 GLE in steel gray with the AMG appearance package for my wife, and she thinks it’s a bit masculine but loves it. Her previous car was a Honda Pilot that she drove for five years. It’s all perspective.
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Not sure why women even bother with SUV's. Just get her a Dodge Caravan. All the space she needs and then some. Slow as can be so worries about the throttle being touchy either lol.
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We bought my wife's CPO 2016 in December 2018. Paid around $39k out the door with 22k on the odo.
She's had it a year now and hates it basically because it isn't big enough the doesn't like the sensitive throttle. She also said it's too much of a chick car. LOL - that one kind of shocked me. Did did get rid of a Yukon to get the GLE though but always *****ed about not being able to park it in all of the tight lots.
Recently tried to trade out of it into a GLS450 and they wanted to give me $25k. No way I was going to take that kind of hit and told my wife to make nice with the car because she'll be in it a couple of more years.
She's had it a year now and hates it basically because it isn't big enough the doesn't like the sensitive throttle. She also said it's too much of a chick car. LOL - that one kind of shocked me. Did did get rid of a Yukon to get the GLE though but always *****ed about not being able to park it in all of the tight lots.
Recently tried to trade out of it into a GLS450 and they wanted to give me $25k. No way I was going to take that kind of hit and told my wife to make nice with the car because she'll be in it a couple of more years.
if its not big enough for her needs than that may be a valid concern. only you guys can judge that. But that would've been apparent when you initially bought it so I'm not sure why you guys would've bought a car too small in the first place?
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C300 W205, GLE300 W166
You made a good choice Bigmike.
most likely, the only reason she said it looked like a chick car, is because her hater friends were jealous and repeated something their hater husbands said of older models...
imo, w166 looks more muscular than the v167(2020)~
most likely, the only reason she said it looked like a chick car, is because her hater friends were jealous and repeated something their hater husbands said of older models...
imo, w166 looks more muscular than the v167(2020)~
