CPO S63 Vs Brand New S560
 

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who has decided to pull the trigger and get an S Class. He was asking me if he has to lease a brand new S560 or finance a CPO S63? I told him I will share this with my friends in forum and let you know what everbody thinks!
Thank you in advance.

Is it the updated 2018 S63?
If so, that would be my choice, couple months later both cars will be "used" but S63 is on another level totally.

Eh, I'd feel funny about buying a used AMG, but that's just me. Who knows how it was driven, cared for........if it was tuned, romped on everyday etc.

I'd go for the new car.

Id finance the s63 handsdown. much more exclusive, better int without upgrading. If I did it again Id prb have financed an s63.

Finding a clean, no nonsense, no story, no issue, S63 is a rare find. I would be VERY cautious of an S63 as stated above, how it was cared for and maintained. Not a good car to have issues with. Every one I looked at had a story. Youtube is a real eyeopener on how some treat leased cars! There is one guy on there with a new S63 doing donuts on what looks like a dried lake full of dust and dirt beating the car! Every Mercedes I have owned that has been a great car, started off life new, adult owned, properly maintained, and usually owned over leased. Properly taken cared of in the beginning has a lot to do with longevity with these cars I have found. There are always lemons, but for the most part that is true.

I'd go with the new S560 over the S63...why? Like everyone has pointed out, you really don't know how the S63 was maintained or taken car of. It could have been beaten down and misused on the track for all you know. Two really totally different cars, so hard to judge. Just my 2 cents.

depends if you find a flawless s63 w super low miles? why not? plenty of garage queens out there too. Most of the cpos are good clean cars.

I track a Zo6. I frequent tracks from Virginia to south Florida. I will admit is is not common...but I have seen ALOT of S63's E63's,C63's, and even a CLS63 at the track. They are not track cars but these are consider HPDE's. High performance driving events. Anyone can sign up as a novice. Most everyone of them was a 1-2 time track event seeing the potential of their car. It ends badly for the car most times. These cars are so heavy that they eat tires and brakes pretty quickly and the new driver ends the day early. Also the inexperience also lend to destroying the brakes. I remember being in Homestead raceway in Miami and watching a new E63 get destroyed by a "more money than brains" candidate driver. He put himself in the intermediate group (he was clearly a novice) and could not keep up and was barely safe, till he smoked his brakes so bad he was black flagged. When he came in the tires were shredded and brakes gone! Had to flatbed it out. To my shock I saw him there a month later at another event. Had to ask. He explained it cost him 8000 dollars on his end and the dealer helped out on that total. He was just out to have fun in his car. My point is even I was surprised to see these cars at the track. But occasionally they are there. Here in south Florida you see it all.


Even very rich guys track cars with cheaper consumables-- tires, brakes, repairs. Most are Porsche-Corvette, some BMW. The Mercedes guys track the C63, AMG GT, and we have one older guy with an SLS...who tracks it twice a month!

There are many misused AMG cars out there returned to the dealer to be CPO'd. Thats why I would be cautious of any used performance car.

Agree completely, once you go 63 you will never go lower, I would rather have it used (if can't get a new one) then the regular airport taxi.
Someone said you should buy it if you track, nothing more is wrong then that, it would be a waste and idiotic use of that car since it was never made for it, too heavy and luxurious.
That poster also mentioned that you could use it only on autobahn or if you plan to break the US traffic laws.
I drive on autobahn in rentals but here in US you just take your chances, I don't know many people who adhere to our idiotic laws, 90% not reasonable and too draconian.
In Chicago area, I-294 has 55 limit, I don't see any semi trucks or even Priuses doing less then 80.
S63 lets you waft effortlessly, makes driving at these speeds much easier and dispatches 99% of other cars with ease (when you need to change the lane and a pesky Honda speeds up to prevent you from doing this, just because he doesn't like your car)

Breathe Stream, just........breathe.

I don't know where you guys are getting this? It's just a simple discussion.

My mistake, you seemed upset; a tad more than usual :)

Nah, not upset.:zoom:

I don't own S63.
I drive in LA about 2k miles/year so am a little bit familiar with traffic and enforcement there.
We all know how nasty some other drivers can become, especially if we attempt to go a little bit faster then them or God forbid try to accelerate to get in front of some slow poke when the 3 lanes change into 2.
An S63 makes driving easier and allows you to compromise less then when driving less powerful car, you know it and I know it.
Sorry about the taxi comment but it is simply an acknowledgment of fact, I get picked up at LAX and ORD (every month) in a S560 or 450 from Carey Limousine (they have a large fleet of them serving the airports).
Lastly, there is a "Captain America"
There was an Opel Kapitan (discontinued in 1970)
There is a mountain El Capitan,
A restaurant near Chicago with that name,
A grocery shopping app called "getcapitan"
a few others too but no "Capitan America" that I know off
Oh, one more thing, I wouldn't want anyone getting hard on me, I don't swing that way....... :love:

There's no way we could decide for anyone else. It's way too personal. But for me, I'd ONLY want an S63. I don't care if it goes faster than an S560, I simply wanted it since it's more exclusive, that's all. I love the rear badging and the interior parts that say AMG. So cool. People fawn over my car including myself. It's rarer. I like rarer. Also, if you get a used one, it could be just about as nice as a new one. I baby mine and try to keep it looking brand new. I never abuse it, ever.

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