That's cold, kick a guy when he's down!
You seen the price of the 63?
Lol, that’s how we ended up with an X5. No denying the AMG’s are bad ass though
Make that $10k in 5 years based on our BMW 550i experience.
Ours was a dealer demo with a couple thousand miles on it, got it for much less than $90k. It’s the S, not the X drive as well.
Curious what model did you have that ate tires and was in the shop that much?
Who 'dis?
But if you go from a BMW or MB to a Lexus you will be disappointed as Lexuses (Lexi?) have exactly no sporting pretensions. We got rid of our BMW 550 and went to the Lexus RX350 for reliability purposes, I know, not exactly same model genre, but it was so benign and non involving that is was bland. Don't get me wrong, it was a very nice car, but that's all it was. After a year we went back to a 3 year old CPO BMW 650 Gran Coupe for more than 50% off the original sticker with barely over 30,000 miles. European cars have something that makes them driver's cars, but that complexity makes them disposable vehicles - once the warranty is up and things go wrong you'll find out very quickly that nothing is cheap on these cars to repair.
I love hearing all these stories trashing different cars, being in the shop, eating tires, blah blah blah...
It's called mechanical empathy. Some people just don't have it...... Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but pick any brand and someone will be endlessly complaining about it. Seeing how most people drive these days I'm surprised they last as long as they do.
If you like the car brand _________ buy it and enjoy it. It most likely won't be in your driveway in 10 years so who cares. Cars these days are disposable. If all you needed was a car to get you from point a to b, there would be one choice. But it isn't that way, some like red, some like black some like green. Others like lifted, slammed, electric, gas, diesel, car, truck, whatever, chances are if your car is always breaking or in the shop or going through brakes or tires. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's your driving habits, not the car.
But if you have the chance to get a tank, always get the tank.
I'm amazed when I read posts nonchalantly revealing driving their vehicle with 150K + miles to the river or lake, hell I wouldn't drive one to the local Target store. And a lot of them are towing their boats behind them as well. The boats in many cases easily being worth twice what the tow vehicle is. 
I love hearing all these stories trashing different cars, being in the shop, eating tires, blah blah blah...
It's called mechanical empathy. Some people just don't have it...... Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but pick any brand and someone will be endlessly complaining about it. Seeing how most people drive these days I'm surprised they last as long as they do.
If you like the car brand _________ buy it and enjoy it. It most likely won't be in your driveway in 10 years so who cares. Cars these days are disposable. If all you needed was a car to get you from point a to b, there would be one choice. But it isn't that way, some like red, some like black some like green. Others like lifted, slammed, electric, gas, diesel, car, truck, whatever, chances are if your car is always breaking or in the shop or going through brakes or tires. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's your driving habits, not the car.
But if you have the chance to get a tank, always get the tank.
Yup, I have owned 3 of them. A 2000 E55, sold with 145,000 miles, a 2006 E55 sold at 96,000 miles, and currently a 2013 E63 with 48k miles. All have been great cars. I bought all of them used the 2000 with 65k on it. The 2006 with 30k miles on it, and the 2013 with 22k miles on it. I paid 22k for the 2000 in 2003, I paid 35k for the 2006 in 2008, and paid 59k for the 2013 in 2015. The sticker on the 2000 was 96k, the sticker on the 2006 was 107k, and the sticker on the 2013 was 111k. Buying them a few years old saved me tens of thousands. I do all the routine maintenance myself, brakes, tires, oil and filter changes. The transmission service and brake flush i let the dealer do it. Not one of the cars ever left me stranded.
Not a tax person so I don't know the rules, I do know that their tax person told them to buy instead of lease because they would be able to write more off. I will also bet that 96k car will be worth 40k by the time it’s out of warranty.
