mercftw

im in the UK now the days are hot, the cars are teaming round here i have NEVER seen so many exotics in my life, for instance this morning 3 new BMW m5's passed me and the other day a MClaren SLR shot passed me on the free way - My SL has been delivered
Unfortunatly at the moment she is stock to the bone but not for long i am going to get this thing done to the eyes, new wheels, and i can remember you guys telling me about the mod where the car will be boosted up on its top speed etc and it makes it alot faster.
The last 2 images are of my girlfriends car its a 2004 Alfa Romeo 156 (2.6 V6 T - SPARK ) it is one hell of a car, she is still looking for something like an E55 or something along them lines, she has fell in love with the S - Class

mercftw

here are the images

mand

where in england, when i was in london i saw maybachs, phantoms, lambos, ferraris, an basically every E, S, CL, SL amg model, and a few SLR's, and a couple of m5s all in 3 days.

mercftw

its in a little place called Derbyshire, its a gorgeous place right in the middle of no where, away from the hustle and bustle of the city and loads of exotics floating about here

mand

My friend, i envy you. lol

j7ols

Exotics in Derbyshire????? Where exactly? Since me and my NSX left surely the place hasn't taken off?
Jools

TA-9FF

I want to move to England. I'm bored of the U.S.

mercftw

well i live in derbyshire (aka derby****e) but i work in a place called nottinghamshire and i go to london with this job alot so i am on the free way alot, i see loads crawling all over nottingham and in london its like our dreams its merc and ferrari state

sprins

London is the Walhalla (or Mekka) of exclusive automobiles in Europe. There must be a sh¡tload of money in that city. AMGs, Astons, Ferrari, everything

mercftw

hell a **** load of money, they offered me $600,000 a year to move to england! (which is i think just over 1 mill £ a year DAMN its good! well see there maybe a new car to our collection well there is a MB dealer next door to my office and i couldnt resist going in and ... and and well um i found a CL500 and CL65 just undecided hehe i wonder which one i will get

j7ols

I should check your payslip my old mate. $600,000 is about 320,000 quid, not a million. They owe you some big money if the promised you a million!
I miss Derbyshire a lot. Some of the best roads in the UK are up there, good times......
Jools

j7ols

PS. When you've checked you payslip check the back of your car. It looks like you've got an SL500 and not an SL65 there! Those Brits are really out to get you. First you though you were on a million a year and now you find you that you've got an SL500 (or SL350) and not an SL65!!!! You're having a very bad day.

j7ols

PPS. Crikey, it gets worse. That's not a 2006, it's as old as mine as its got the same COMMAND system!!!! A very, very bad day indeed.

mercftw

this isnt the 65... that is still on order. this is the 500 I am using while the 500 is being delivered i am undecided whether to keep it
p.p.s jools sorry for the mis calculation they didnt promise me a mill ££ i worked it out wrong haha i always thought you got £2 for every $1 but its the other way around isnt it?

zoink

LOL... yes, I smell Could be another troll. (if not, please take my apology... after showing more proof )

Just to re-emphasize:
- Pictures not SL65
- $600K is not the same as GBP 1MM. US$1MM is about GBP $500-600K. For a person who said he's getting $600K... this mistake is not acceptable
- How could someone w/ an 1997 E220 (is there any?) all of a sudden become a car fanatic (SL65)? It is not impossible... (I know couple of millionares w/ ONLY a 1989 Accord ). But if it's true, it's either you've got electrocuted one night that reprogrammed your brain cells.... or you got a big raise by moving to UK (like making $50K in Iowa to US$600K in UK) Which one is right?

IanSL55

I spent a year working in London and two more working in Gibraltar... it's OK but you have not seen car country until you spend some time in SoCal or Arizona.

London has some of the best restuarants in the world but the everyday fare is... um... so-so at best.

~ Ian

mercftw

i got a huge raise by moving to the UK thats why i took it. i have always been a mercedes benz fanatic but only been able to afford the E220 and when i got this raise i thought i might aswel treat myself

v8plus4

Where did you find an E220 in America? That model was never offered here.

mand

yeah lol kind of confused me for a second.

v8plus4

Nice looking color on the SL, what color code is it?

zoink

I should say WOW or still say BS

This is why (just showing my logical reasoning)

I would guess someone who said could only afford E220 (or whatever it is...) and live in Iowa (supposedly house price over there must be lower than CA or East Coast) would make far less than $100K.

I wouldn't guess this if you don't want to buy, instead of not able to afford. But if you could buy one (may be not SL65 but something a lot nicer than '97 E220... like E55 or SL500), why didn't you buy one in U.S. given you consider yourself as an MB fanatic? How come all of the sudden you become a big spender? Buying SL500, SL65, CL (is it 500 or 600?) and still look for another car for your gf?

But let's say you're making close to $100K (still if I were you, I wouldn't have said I couldn't afford a car nicer than '97 E220 - c'mon with no family you could get at least an 03 E320). I'm not sure what you're doing... but having a company offer you 600%+ salary plus, I assume, relocation package is one heck of an offer (I certainly want to know what kind of company this is.... ). It's like jumping from an analyst position to a CEO position.

Let's say that it's true you got 600% or 700% or even 1000% of your old salary, you wouldn't be able to buy SL500 and SL65 and CL at one time, especially short after moving to the new job. This requires around $300K-400K up front. And if a company is willing to pay you $600K, I'd guess you would be a lot wiser than buying cars and putting all of them in loans...

Previous savings? Hmmm... if you have that much of liquid savings, I wouldn't say you could only afford to buy '97 E220.... you should've said I just don't want to buy a nicer one.

Sign-in bonus? Wow.... if your sign-in bonus is $400K cash, this is even more one heck of an offer (I know that my new vice-chairman at my old company got $500K+ sign-in bonus w/ $400K-ish salary... but most of them are in the form of stock options, and the old salary, I think, around $300K - so it's not a super huge raise).

Once again, all of the above is still possible... and I don't want to be a hater... but everything is just too good to be true in economy like nowadays.... from "only able to afford E220" to "getting $600K salary and buying SL500, SL65 and CL all within couple months"

I'll leave to other members' perspective about this... and I would keep quiet until you've shown me some pics of your SL65

j7ols

I'm 100% with you. Who would pay that amount of money to someone who finds it difficult to spell and punctuate correctly?
I'm done with this guy! And to think I was quite excited to hear from someone living in my ex-part of the world. Bugger!

Vik888

You guys are way too easy on this guy .. he's full of BS and I'm 100% sure of it and have no problem calling him a troll.

His first post says his SL has been delivered .. now its on order .. yeeeah okay.

E220 in the U.S. ... yeah .. .ummm yeah okay.

The only thing he owns is that POS Alfa Romeo.

phonetics

I don't think anyone making such amount of money will have such bad common sense on exchange rate.... come on..

btw, i have been in london a few times, each for a few weeks, the best i saw is a CL500 covered with dirts and rain... and i am talking about london in uk, not the one in Ontario Canada.

mercftw

the money we had in america was rubbish. but when we moved i did have a relocation package. i sold our house in Iowa and used that and the relocation money buy the SL and my girlfriend sold her E60 M5 which has given her the money to be able to afford the CL500 that we have found. the alfa romeo was really cheap aswell ($2000)