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Old 12-16-2011, 05:32 AM
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2004 E55,1969 300SEL6.3,2011 ML350 BlueTec Diesel,2005 ML400 CDI
7900 Mile '06 E55

Probably the last one.

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jesus..........so lame that car has been been driven.......poor thing
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I wouldn't buy that car.

That car has been up since before I bought mine (well over a year, I bought my car August 2010 and that car had been listed well before I found my car).

I contacted the seller and he said he hasn't driven it in a long time. He said he occasionally starts the car, but other than that, it just sits.

And I think the price is a bit off, no? Granted, it has 8K miles, but we're talking a 6 year old car and new AMGs coming out by the year.


Just my .02
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You say "he" like its a personal owner, it is obviously a dealership.
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If it is problem free, I would live to pick that up. Marcus what would you say is the true value on that car, $40's?
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I don't know where I stand on the low mile car thing. People buy low mile classics all the time and no-one blinks an eye. I understand that rubber and gaskets and such need some love from time to time but couldn't tell you how those affect the actual car's reliability. I can tell you that I've had a car that I let sit for a time, and things did not work out so well when it was run hard.
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yeah, way too high $$$. Sure low miles but also has some years on it. it may look nice and clean, work great during test drive, but next week those seals will leak like a ****.
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Originally Posted by emoving
You say "he" like its a personal owner, it is obviously a dealership.
The guy must have given the car to the dealer since he couldn't sell it and that ad is different from what I saw when I ran across this car (I saw it on ebay or autotrader, I don't remember) back in the summer of 2010. It was a private sale then.


Considering he still hasn't sold it since then and likely the most that car has been driven is to the dealer, I still wouldn't touch it.

Also, back when I was looking at it, the car was listed at $59K!
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Originally Posted by ArmoE55
I wouldn't buy that car.

That car has been up since before I bought mine (well over a year, I bought my car August 2010 and that car had been listed well before I found my car).

I contacted the seller and he said he hasn't driven it in a long time. He said he occasionally starts the car, but other than that, it just sits.

And I think the price is a bit off, no? Granted, it has 8K miles, but we're talking a 6 year old car and new AMGs coming out by the year.


Just my .02
I'm not a candidate for it, however the low miles won't make much difference in the loan value of an '06, but at the right price, perhaps $30K, how can you go wrong? It still is and always shall be known as the car that set the bar to a new height for ultra high performance sports sedans just as the W109 6.3 did 43 years ago.
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whats the motto, high end exotics that are garage queens pose more problems than those that are used for what it is intended for. Good friend of mine bought a low mileage BMW X5 with 30k miles on it. Drove it maybe a total of 60 days out of the whole year. Took it in for service. Leaking p/s, rear main, and other gaskets. Bill was $7k to repair. Buy it, drive it!
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Originally Posted by novae500
whats the motto, high end exotics that are garage queens pose more problems than those that are used for what it is intended for. Good friend of mine bought a low mileage BMW X5 with 30k miles on it. Drove it maybe a total of 60 days out of the whole year. Took it in for service. Leaking p/s, rear main, and other gaskets. Bill was $7k to repair. Buy it, drive it!
I only changed:
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On my M5 in 100,000 miles of ownership. I drove the living **** out of that car every day. Sure, I maintained the hell out of it but those two repairs were the only issues I ever had with the car.
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If it is owned by Bob Tasca , he doesn't need the money...
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Considering you could buy a nice example with 50,000 miles for 30k, drive it for 40,000 miles, sell it for 20K, buy another nice example for 30k, drive it for 40,000 miles, sell it for 20k... Literally you could drive nearly a quarter million miles for the price of that one car.
I guess nobody thinks it's value is 50k plus or it would have sold.
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Originally Posted by chawkins2001
If it is problem free, I would live to pick that up. Marcus what would you say is the true value on that car, $40's?
Honestly, with those miles, it is deff, a low 40s car. If it is truly documented and clean.
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Originally Posted by emoving
Honestly, with those miles, it is deff, a low 40s car. If it is truly documented and clean.
+1 everybody knows there are no easy miles in the life of an E55.
As time goes on, the low mile, clean 55s will bring a premium price.
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I'd come across an '05 with 12,500 miles on it the other day........think that was up at $35K which didn't seem out of the way to me......50k you're starting to get into C63 territory.....

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