At $8,900, Is This 2008 Mercedes-benz Cls 550 A Beautiful Bargain?

While four-door coupes are nary longer really a point anymore, today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Mercedes is 1 of nan best-looking examples of what erstwhile was. Let's spot if nan value tag makes this creation worthy collecting.

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Today, we're going to spell pinch much of everything. More power, much features, and, arguably, vastly much style. This 2008 Mercedes-Benz CLS 550 is 1 of nan earliest successful a mini activity of 'four-door coupés' that deed nan marketplace successful nan mid-aughts. Others included nan Volkswagen CC and Audi A7. At nan clip of its launch, Mercedes staked a declare to having invented nan assemblage style, but that's not accurate. In fact, Britain's Rover presaged nan CLS pinch nan swoopy-roofed P5 Coupe each nan measurement backmost successful 1962. Groovy, baby!

What nan Mercedes tin declare pinch nan CLS is that it is possibly nan best-looking of nan four-door coupe clan. Not only that, but it could beryllium based on that this is Mercedes's astir successful creation of nan caller Millennium. That comes astatine a price, though. These cars are based connected nan W211 E-Class, sharing almost each that model's underpinnings and drivetrain options, on pinch its exact-same wheelbase. Despite nan theft, nan CLS is importantly much cramped inside, offering only 4 seats compared to nan E-Class's five, and a smaller boot, to boot. For many, that's a adjacent trade-off fixed really overmuch amended nan CLS looks successful comparison to nan stodgy E sedan.

This 1 besides benefits from 2 options added astatine nan factory. The first is nan colour operation of Silver complete a charcoal leather-and-burlwood interior. The 2nd is nan AMG Sport package, which adds a handsome group of five-spoke alloy wheels. Those look to beryllium successful awesome shape; however, nan seller doesn't opportunity thing astir nan property aliases information of nan tires that wrap them. Around that is wrapped nan svelte bodywork, which nan seller claims to beryllium successful very bully shape, pinch nary awesome dings aliases scratches. This is an early '08, truthful it doesn't person nan refreshed grille aliases LED tail lamps that arrived later that exemplary year. That's not a large deal, arsenic nan changes weren't each that significant.

It appears to beryllium conscionable arsenic bully successful nan cabin, arsenic nan seller says location are nary rips aliases tears successful nan upholstery, and each nan trim looks intact. As noted, this is strictly a four-seater, pinch a wide console separating nan 2 rear bucket-style seats. The debased roofline requires a much horizontal posture for each occupants, making legroom successful nan backmost a spot tight, arsenic well.

According to nan instrumentality cluster image successful nan ad, this CLS has 154,406 miles nether its fashionable belt. Jocularly, that image besides reveals different benignant of mileage, which happened to beryllium 13.2 mpg. That's not great, but pinch a 5.5-liter V8 nether nan hood, what would you expect? That motor is Mercedes' M273, an all-alloy mill that nan mill rated astatine 382 horsepower and a stonking 391 pound-feet of torque. Mated to that is simply a seven-speed automatic, which, successful turn, drives nan rear wheels. Per nan seller, nan car has had a caller work and, for immoderate it's worth, was erstwhile a CPO resale.

This is besides a fancy-pants Mercedes, truthful it's loaded to nan gills pinch each nan comfort, convenience, and information features 1 would expect from nan marque, astatine slightest arsenic disposable successful 2008. It's each said to work, correct down to nan A/C, which nan seller assures, "blows cold." A cleanable title, unremarkable Carfax, and a caller passing people connected an emissions trial mean this CLS is fresh to dress up immoderate caller owner's driveway pinch nary fuss aliases muss.

For that to happen, however, we'll request to reside nan mini matter of this CLS's price. The seller, who, contempt listing nan car arsenic "by owner," spins nan income spiel for illustration they're a dealer, has group nan value astatine $8,900. They temper that by claiming to beryllium unfastened to offers. In different grounds of nan seller being a dealer, aliases astatine slightest that this isn't their first rodeo, they omit nan emblematic warnings of "no lowballers" aliases "I don't request thief trading nan car" that galore backstage sellers employment to stave disconnected scammers and leeches.

We're still going to thief them pinch their pricing acumen. We're each conscionable that dang obliging. To that end, what's your return connected this seemingly coagulated CLS and that $8,900 asking? Does that look adjacent fixed nan car's evident condition? Or, contempt each that, is that value tag conscionable not a bully look?

You decide!

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