Mark Farnik
EF5
Well, it's done. After months of searching and having two cars that I really wanted to purchase get sold out from under me, I have found my first car, as well as my first chase vehicle. Here it is:
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It's a burnished gold 1990 Mercedes Benz 300TE wagon with 4Matic all wheel drive, power everything, leather and wood interior, third row seat that folds out of the load floor to carry 7 in a pinch, heated front seats, sunroof, just had $4500 in maintenance done on it (which I means I shouldn't have to put anything into it for a while, which makes me very happy) and 66,266 certified original miles. It has a clean title, never having been involved in any accidents. You'd think this would be like a nine or ten thousand dollar car, right? Well, I got it for a grand total of $7,400 after taxes. :shock:
It is a really nice one owner car, and the price was right too! The nice thing about this is with the low miles I should be able to drive this car through college, and with the 4Matic option the dealer told me resale should level off at about $5,000 and not depreciate any further even if I put 200,000 or more miles on it, the higher resale will be very nice when I sell this car down the road.
With the 3.0 liter V6 it gets about 18 mpg city, 24 mpg highway for an average of 22 mpg, which is pretty good mileage for a mid-sized wagon that weighs in at just under 4,000 pounds. It has a 19 gallon gas tank and a range of almost 400 miles, which is a good thing to have for those long chase days when you need to get from here to there without having to stop and refill too many times in between. The only thing it doesn't have is a keyless remote entry/start system, but I'm going to get an aftermarket one (good ones run about $80, they're pretty inexpensive) and install it. The bottom line is this: It won't eat me alive in gas commuting back and forth to school or chasing like a Pathfinder or Explorer would, since it is a fifteen year old car I don't need to be too concerned about hail dents, it has all wheel drive to cope with greasy, sloppy dirt roads during chase season and icy, snowpacked highways during the winter, and with 77 cubic feet of cargo room, I can haul a ton of friends, a ton of stuff, or a combination of both. I'm pretty happy that I got such a nice car so dirt cheap.
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It's a burnished gold 1990 Mercedes Benz 300TE wagon with 4Matic all wheel drive, power everything, leather and wood interior, third row seat that folds out of the load floor to carry 7 in a pinch, heated front seats, sunroof, just had $4500 in maintenance done on it (which I means I shouldn't have to put anything into it for a while, which makes me very happy) and 66,266 certified original miles. It has a clean title, never having been involved in any accidents. You'd think this would be like a nine or ten thousand dollar car, right? Well, I got it for a grand total of $7,400 after taxes. :shock:
It is a really nice one owner car, and the price was right too! The nice thing about this is with the low miles I should be able to drive this car through college, and with the 4Matic option the dealer told me resale should level off at about $5,000 and not depreciate any further even if I put 200,000 or more miles on it, the higher resale will be very nice when I sell this car down the road.
With the 3.0 liter V6 it gets about 18 mpg city, 24 mpg highway for an average of 22 mpg, which is pretty good mileage for a mid-sized wagon that weighs in at just under 4,000 pounds. It has a 19 gallon gas tank and a range of almost 400 miles, which is a good thing to have for those long chase days when you need to get from here to there without having to stop and refill too many times in between. The only thing it doesn't have is a keyless remote entry/start system, but I'm going to get an aftermarket one (good ones run about $80, they're pretty inexpensive) and install it. The bottom line is this: It won't eat me alive in gas commuting back and forth to school or chasing like a Pathfinder or Explorer would, since it is a fifteen year old car I don't need to be too concerned about hail dents, it has all wheel drive to cope with greasy, sloppy dirt roads during chase season and icy, snowpacked highways during the winter, and with 77 cubic feet of cargo room, I can haul a ton of friends, a ton of stuff, or a combination of both. I'm pretty happy that I got such a nice car so dirt cheap.
