Sharp_Coyote said:
Is why one only leases a new German car, kids, never buy one outright ... and unless you have a business writeoff, leases are akin to trading yer soul to the Debil (the manufacturer owns you forever, less a day)

and Mercedes is arguably the best of the Lego Cars ...

_{now, if you have an E30 318is, or E12 528i 5spd, or blessed with an E28 M5, we can speak of German ownership}

Duly noted.

@W0LFB3AT5:

Mirrors are going to be $1,700 ea, the LED headlamps are going to be $4,300 ea, pray an exchange rebuilt infotainment unit is available as a new navscreen/unit is probably like $8K ... and then there is all of the nanny-gear like sonar and cameras for the adaptive cruise / x-traffic alert / emergency braking / 360 around view / lane-keep assist, and all of that crap need calibration after replacement. I don't ever want to have to deal with the crappy ride and double the cost of having runflat tires, because manufacturers don't want to bother with spare tires anymore. $3K brake jobs because of big Brembo packages with ferro-carbon rotors; nothing is serviceable anymore, everything is replace only.

_{(and I love big brakes! just not anything with so many pistons I need to take out a loan for a set of rotors and pads)}