Comments on: Review: 2009 Mercedes-Benz S550

By: melias

melias — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:18:44 +0000

Other Man,

Thanks for the catch….the 5655 was the Gross Weight, 4465 was the Curb Weight. The coffee hadn’t kicked in yet, but it was scalding.

Elias

By: mentir

mentir — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:19:58 +0000

Why no discussion of how S-Class sales have been tanking lately?

By: Other Man

Other Man — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:10:41 +0000

It’s not 5600 lbs LLN. It’s about 1000 short of that. Not even the big kahuna S65 weighs that much.

Best car in its class though! Easily. Well we’ll see how the new 7 stacks up…

By: Borat

Borat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:21:57 +0000

perhaps people who play with those toys don’t think in terms of “some better places to put that extra $50,000″, since it is sort of champ change for them. Those cars are rarely bought to begin with – corporate lease.

By: jonmiles

jonmiles — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:35:19 +0000

I will take an Audi A8 over this any day of the week

By: Epik

Epik — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:36:49 +0000

It’s more like, “You see Phil and his new Hyundai Genesis and wonder why the hell he would do that when you know he makes a lot more money than you do… he’s got his own private jet for god’s sake. Oh wait a minute… could it be that he doesn’t need a badge to impress anyone and might know of some better places to put that extra $50,000?

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:25:45 +0000

Cadillac DTS

By: The Stig

The Stig — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:53:00 +0000

A unique motoring experience consumed with sitting at the dealership getting all the electrical gremlins fixed.

By: fan

fan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:18:49 +0000

theyve got a 550? What for? for people who dont want the poor 500, but cant afford the 600 or the AMG-Version? *nah*

By: buytheredcar

buytheredcar — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:02:18 +0000

The exterior is holding up ok but the interior looks weird now.
It wasnt all that good when it came out but it just looks like a bad sketch.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:15:08 +0000

In the 50s. Huh. Well in about 2 and a half years so will I. Again… It’s nice to relate even if we’re not quite playing on the same sheet of ice!

By: melias

melias — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:57:18 +0000

Actually, we tested right around the corner from Bernie Madoff’s Palm Beach Digs! Hey, now–I love idiots in the ditches videos that we see on the nightly news down here!

Having a cool snap (it’s in the 50s!) tonight!

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:32:02 +0000

Mark, where were you testing? There’s no snow/rain/wind/fog/salted roads/black ice/idiots in the ditch/corroded chrome rims/flooded streets/malfunctioning traffic lights/more idiots in the ditch/garbage cans in your cul-de-sac put out three weeks ago/frozen wipers/frozen glass/frozen hands/sirens every half hour to rescue the latest idiot in a ditch/sounds of old men grunting as they try to fling the snow higher than Shaq going over Tim Duncan on a dunk.

Well at least your tester was white. That much I can relate to.

By: Borat

Borat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:02:31 +0000

Jake, 50% sounds nice if one keeps the same high paying job and bonus as in 2006-2007. The reason house is worth 50% of 2006, ’cause non has boys to buy anything.

And I do like 2001 (I think the Jag looking one) better then this commode on wheels.

By: Mutant@DCX

Mutant@DCX — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:55:23 +0000

These are very nice sedans. I approve!

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:58:52 +0000

No Phil lives in your neighborhood, but he bought his house at a 50% discount to yours becasue he waited until the Real Estate bubble burst. Now he has to pay less than half of your mortgage and car payment amount. Good for Phil, bad for you.

I wouldn’t buy one of these new, ever. You see too many of them, they are boring and it seems to ruin that whole specialness a 100k dollar car should be. I saw a used ‘01 for like 17k and it makes this seem just not worth it. I’d buy the used one if I’m so obsessed with the MB name.

By: bimmer_mann_18

bimmer_mann_18 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:20:43 +0000

Lets sell the same thing and make it look like we added some stuff, that way we can up the price another 10k

By: Jon Luc

Jon Luc — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:18:42 +0000

Yawn!

By: Borat

Borat — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:06:30 +0000

If you can afford it, you live on another side of town from Phil with his Genesis (or in different town altogether)

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:28:56 +0000

this car needs bigger disk brakes to fill up that empty space!