Hello everybody on this forum,

I’m new on this forum but I’ve been reading here for months now.
Being from the Netherlands in Europe I find lots of useable info here. This might seam strange but high end BM's are probably more rare in Europe than in the US. Sure, there's lots of BM around here but mostly diesel taxi's and vans. Tax incentative's in neo communist/eco-terrorist Europe keep them out of reach of the common. A few months back I purchased a 2007 CLS 500 though. A €120000,- car in Holland that was a MSRP $72000,- car out there in 2007. It's called a CLS500 in Europe while it has the 550 badge everywhere else.

I traded my new bought 2009 SEAT Leon cupra at a respectable high end car shop for this car because I was, well frankly, fed up with a street racing car. It was a stage II tuned 350bhp hatchback with the grip to rival a GT3 which seems great but gets old if you approach 50. Been there, done that. I remember those days I liked to take it out for a Sunday morning spin out back but I lost my thrive. Over 20 years of drag racing street bikes shed some of my speed hunger as well I guess. It's not so easy to find a well documented honest car here of this kind. The market is saturated with so called traders that try to sell patched up write offs or worse in this sort of cars so paying a few grands more at a respectable shop seams the right thing to do.

But what to chose? I could not go back to much less power. A M3? I live less than 20 min's from the German border and my parents in law live about 100 miles into Germany. I've battled many of those in the SEAT and was not impressed. A M5 then? Mooaaaw. Seen those. Hardly much faster, And that fragile V10? Seen some of those engines with thrown rods at some tuning shops. Eeeks! S6 / RS6 then? This are the European Moroccan robber getaway cars these days so you have to practically sleep in them holding a shotgun to keep on to those. Practically uninsurenable as well for this reason.

What about a Benz though? Being an engineer I have always admired the quality and over-engineered style of their vehicles. I even visited their museum in Stuttgart a few years back. MB's of some age have a sort of drugs criminal / trailer trash / suspect able entrepreneur air around them though around here. My friends all drive BMW's and been asking when I buy a "proper" car. Screw them. I am buying a CLS 500! I have always admired those at my many drives in Germany. I think it is just the best looking four door sedan ever made. I don't think the new one looks anywhere that good. It has a distinct different look to anything MB I think. Some American styling? A bit of medetiranian flavour? It could even be a neo classic. Buy a CLS 350? Not the guts. A weasel? No thanks. I pay €250 a month in road tax. A CLS 63 AMG? Probably ten of those in the whole country. Do I really need that power? Everything AMG branded is twice the price of MB if something breaks...

The 2007-2010 CLS 500 may be the best choice. Plenty of power (it rivals E39 V8 M5 power). Not the gas guzzling 63AMG with the high end parts prices. And the shape is just something else. Just find me anything 4 door saloon looking this good. Everybody not into cars in any way say this is a pretty car. What do they know? Being hardly 6ft it is cramped. It only seats four. But at my daily commute it only 10% more in fuel than my hatchback SEAT. And not 98RON. It guzzles anything. A silver on black classic. I think we will get along just fine.

 

Welcome to MBWorld. Glad you didn't listen to your friends and followed your gut and got into that CLS. Really revolutionary saloon styling that you can now see others (BMW 6GC and Audi A7) following. She looks gorgeous and proper. Power, luxury, styling and practicality of a 4 door. Good choice.

Let us know if we can help you out with any aftermarket lighting upgrades to update her look a bit with whiter lighting

 

welcome nice looking ride

 

welcome to mbworld...

 

Welcome to MBWorld!