On me third Merc, all used and the current one 2000 W. I have had one with a bit of surface rust which without a quibble was fixed....This one has no rust (CLK 2000) its left on the drive all night. I can't moan at an 11 year old car thats in excellent condition. I think there is a lot of jumping on the bandwagon regarding Mercedes.

Hi unthrottled, You're right when you say that mercs from 2000 suffered badly from corrosion. I was working for mercedes when the frog eye, e class model came out.In about 95 96 I can't remember the model number but I think the previous model was a W123. I remember being disappointed with the styling and the lightweight build quality. I remember that part of the release details , were that the car used stressed ,rigid panels .instead of the heavy gauge steel that had been used in previous models . The problem was that this new model didn't really feel like a true merc. I had an e320 auto,old shape in almandine red metallic .a brilliant car ,other than in snow. We also did a version of the same car that could be specified as gypsy specification.A name not used by mercedes but by the sales staff . I wonder if forum members can suggest what the car would have been specified with.Nothing to offensive please . If we get a few suggestions I'll follow up in a couple of days with the real info. Tony g Reply to this message | Report message as offensive | Link

In my previous company everyone that got Mercs as company cars moaned about problems. As you say after they changed the philosophy to 'build it like a tank' Mercs seemed to get titred relatively quickly for a quality car.