Mercedes-Benz E-Class Saloon

My first continental (German) ride albeit a pre-owned one. Mine is a 8.5yrs old car but doesn't look aged at all to my disbelief initially. Quality of every part material used and built is exceptionally good. Now comes the best part. It's so easy to drive/handle/park! Even my wife said so , she being a novice infrequent driver. It's basically a well engineered luxury saloon car with every single driving aspect well thought out. German automotive engineering at its best. Now I know why $2 billion was spent in developing this model. Having driven it for past 2 months now, I have to say this is probably one of the better car to get (pre-owned)

Been driving the E250 Edition E for a month now and it has been a pleasure driving the car. While initially deciding between waiting for a new model or to take this model, the Edition E has, imo, a muscular attractive styling kit that makes it looks sporty and elegant at the same time. Love the lights, very bright and the features such as the roll up blinds, sunroof and the 360 camera. There is also blind spot assist that works very well with your side blind spots but lane departure is a little more intrusive and not so intelligent and the steering wheel buzzes can be a little irritating for me sometimes. The car has great interior space, sits 5 easily and comes with a large boot that can take up my golf bag without a squeeze that in my old C class, had to take out my driver or squeeze it into my boot. Drive has been comfortable, great power and torque and you can find yourself enjoying long straight drives in the car. 0-100 is fast enough and i do not even need to cross 2k rpm to move this car up to 80-90 on the expressway. Bends have slight body roll but still corners well and steering is rather sharp with the car reacting to small inputs but feedback will be slightly less so. Great thing is you can drive it as a comfortable cruiser when with your clients or family or as a pseudo fast sports car.

I used to drive a 2010 W212 E250 for almost 4 years. The car has no problem even after i clocked 75k km. Around 1 year ago, i changed to the facelifted W212 E250 with 7G transmission. The car's comfort is better and exterior styling is also better. The only problem that has bugged me is the 7G transmission. Less than 20K KM, my 7G gearbox started to give me problem. The car was in the workshop for around 10 days for repairs but thank god, its under warranty. After a few trips and lots of work done for the transmission, its alright now but there's still a bit of jerk . Checked with my other friends who drives the same car and most told me they face the same problem.