Is a Mercedes Bendz c230 Kompressor right for me?
Hi. im new to this and am looking forward to any advice possible. I am 17 years old, soon to be 18. Have a reliable job, live in an upper middle class town about an hour outside of New York. I was given a 1991 Ford Taurus for my 16th birthday, while some of my classmates got BMW's, Mercedes, Lexus and other nicer, newer cars. I swear that I'm not like these people from the city..
Anyway. I've came to the conclusion that what i have saved up would only get me another hunk of junk car, or would give me a nice down payment on a newer car. So at first I was thinking small cheap cars. But common sense told me to go for the luxury. So I started looking around. I found a very nice C230 Kompressor for 11g's. I know I can get the money and make the monthly payments... so heres the thing!
Should I go for this 6 year old Mercedes with 40 thousand miles on it? (because its more reliable and i can really run the mileage up?) or go for something else?
A C-class Mercedes built before 2004 has lots of issues, and you can say the same for almost all Benz's. They switched to fiber-optic links between on-board control modules in 2004, and the reliability is much better since then.
The maintenance costs on a Benz will be high for any year and model, and if you don't have enough income to handle it you'll be much better off with Toyota, Honda, or Acura.
