Used Car of the Day: 2006 Mercedes-Benz S-Class
If you want a flagship luxury sedan at an affordable price, today's your lucky day.
There is a catch, though -- this one is a 2006 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, not a brand new one.
This S500 4Matic is in generally good condition and has been daily driven over the years. The seller says its been well maintained and is pretty stock, though it does have 19-inch AMG wheels.
Our seller has plenty of OEM parts to include with the sale, and he or she says the car has over 232,000 miles on it and, with "one weekend" worth of work, will be ready to do another 232,000.
The listing is long and I just grabbed the top-level takeaway -- click here to see it in full. The ask for this Washington-State-based car is $9,400.
[Images: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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This one has clearly been maintained, you can tell when they've been shoddily kept. They get a look about them like few other cars do, it's almost hard to explain.
However, being maintained is just the start for these, and you'll always be dumping money into it. We can see from the photos this one has the peeling glove box lid, which also affected the SLK of the early 2010s. The adhesive was a poor quality and degrades over time, worse in hot climates. The result is the lid peeling off the glove box. The fix is a new glove box lid, over and over. On the SLK they were something like $400 a pop.
Its rather bland looking, very Teutonic and sterile.