We’ve got a baby Mercedes SUV. It’s the best car we’ve owned and the service is WAY above any service we’ve ever received from Ford, Volvo or Toyota. The car is solid as a rock. We have an assigned personal service advisor so that person is always familiar with our car. We get the best loaners from them when the car is in the shop. We’ve had it about four years and we’ve only had a couple of minor parts fail which were covered under warranty. Now if only Mercedes would quit using German engineers to design the user interface on their entertainment system and car controls. That’s the biggest Yuck factor in the car.
In no way am I saying Mercedes are bad cars. I’m saying that repairs may be somewhat costly. They have great warranty service. It’s one reason why people buy them.
However, I’d never buy one used without a bumper to bumper warranty, and I’d sell it before the warranty ran out. It’s why their resale value is so low, relatively speaking.
I have a friend that just traded in his Mercedes for another new one. It needed some simple repairs (at least they would have been in a Toyota or Ford) that were going to be so costly, he just moved on. But he can afford it.
The funny part is that my billionair brother’s daily driver is a Cadillac, about five years old. Of course he also has a fairly large 4x4 for tooling around the 50k acres, and he has a countach and first year corevette in his garage. But I think the latter two are really just investments. I don’t fit in the Lambo, BTW.