Don't worry about me, I only play with what I budget for vegas and lately i am sitting on the sidelines for both stocks and vegas because as the old saying goes "If I bought stock in a funeral home, nobody would die." FLU, so did you end up with the C class or the E class? Consider it a cheap lesson in life if it only bumped you between classes of mercedes rather than between steak and hot dogs or meth and rent, everyone has to pay for their real education somehow and it sounds like yours wasn't all that bad in the grand scheme of things, happy camper or not you still had a tent to camp in.
Mercedes? No way. To me, most of those makes are old fart lines. The only ones that are interesting are the AMG versions, but those are way way overpriced.
One other automaker makes a performance line with an "S" line and an awesome AWD system that extremely helpful for weekend trips to Tahoe in the winter when I was still in the bay area. Of course, down here it's pretty useless because it doesn't snow. Anyway, that car was awesome with a bi-turbo. And I really regret that fiasco, because since then, the maker canned the bi-turbo for a normally aspirated v-8, which imho makes the car so ho-hum in terms of tunibility. Also, that generation of the vehicle didn't look so bling, it pretty much had a low key "sleeper" look. Anyway, I ended up just getting a 4 banger turbo AWD from the same maker, which I guess in hindsight gets better gas mileage that a v-6 bi-turbo. Still, I miss the bi-turbo.
