Ditched my 997 for grocery getter.
 

I had been kicking around the idea of getting a Mustang, but I decided to go in a different direction and get a 2011 MB E350 4 matic. I've had an E series before and really like it. It has everything I want, and frankly it was cheap. Lots of them floating around as lease returns. This one has a 'performance package' that has the larger AMG wheels, and slightly stiffer dampening. Clean, low mileage CPO car. Well equipped.

I'll be back in a P-car when the 2013 Cayman S starts drifting a bit farther down the depreciation curve......



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Ugh - did you trade in the 997? That is about as boring as it gets. The Mustang would have been respectable in comparison! :D

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Hey, it has everything he wants. Just pat him on the back for his AARP tastes.

He is in the heartland. Maybe a MB is something exotic there?

I like it. My Dad had one, got rid of it a few years ago when he turned 87.

Teasing! Awesome ride. Good choice. Ponys are for kids.

Ugh. The wheels and front, headlights etc just look like ass.

I like it

Jeez you Gus are brutal tonight.

I like it too. Just rode in a 2013 e350 convertible the other day, and I have got to say it was pretty sweet.

HD, I think you are mischaracterizing when you refer to that Benz as a grocery getter... it is easily several levels above that.

A Kia Soul is a grocery getter... as is a Nissan Juke... stuff like that qualifies... not this.

Enjoy it... I'm sure it will be just what the doctor ordered until you're ready to get back closer to the ground.

In the heartland a MB is actually an exotic, You can't believe how many Buicks and pickup trucks grace the road around here. Spotting a Porsche in my hometown of 60,000 people is like seeing a UFO, I have had one for 5 years now, and honestly, I think there is one other 944 in the county. This is truly the center of conservativism, and boring, I think the nearest Porsche and MB dealerships are 60 miles away.

Well that took an unexpected turn......

Looks like a nice score!

Now I can't use the "some guy in Turkey is going to love your 997" line.

I like E350s a lot, would love a wagon myself, keep us posted on reliability.

What's cheap on these?

You sold the Mustang, too?

$28k for a CPO car. 32k miles. Available a lot cheaper if go higher miles and non-CPO.

I like wagons too, but they go for a large premium.

Wow, that is amazing.

Around here I see Porsches all the time. There are a ton of the newer cars on the road. I was in traffic behind A Cayenne GTS just today. Panamaras ans Caymans are all over. We have a fairly active PCA region so I see a lot of Porsches at those meetings.

We do for sure have a LOT of pickups but they are for the most part work trucks and farm trucks.

Yes, gone, but I intend to own another one some day, perhaps soon.

Porsches are not rare in Columbus. I've also seen a surprising number of Ferrari here. However, C-bus is not like the rest of Ohio....

well that's less than our Honda minivan cost.

neat to own something like that at least once.

even if it does look like a lexus.

not bad, but, why? Its like trading a table saw for a subway sandwich.