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OP appears to be jealous eh?
Don't hate the player
That's my impression too. What's wrong with having an extra gig on the site? We don't know his reasons but we speculate in an ugly, negative way. Why we even care what he is driving...
He needs the extra income and he is working for it. .
Beats all those with custom Cadillacs and Lincolns who live on welfare...
Most people equate ANY Mercedes with being high dollar, even older ones. Its kind of crazy, but it just shows how much that brand is recognized.
There is a guy around here that drives a red SL500 convertible, people oh and ah over that car all the time, but in reality, its probably only worth a few grand now.
Just goes to show how wretched that depreciation is.
The base cost isn't the problem, its keeping up with all the maintenance requirements and dumping 91 octane in it just to deliver pizzas. On a depreciation and maintenance basis, he's probably barely breaking even on that pizza delivery job.
People vastly overestimated the expenses of used luxury cars and underestimate the power of good credit.
Anyone with good credit and a minimal wage job can finance a Mercedes. A pizza boy or burger flipper in a luxury car is not uncommon as we think it is.
A saw an ad for new C-classes claiming $299 a month leases. That would be cheaper than payments I had on cars 20 years ago.
aw jeeze jeeze freakin' Louise!!!!! why does it matter??????????????????????????????? do we have to judge everyone on the planet, even delivery people fer criminee sakes!!!!
aw jeeze jeeze freakin' Louise!!!!! why does it matter??????????????????????????????? do we have to judge everyone on the planet, even delivery people fer criminee sakes!!!!
Cars are like clothes. We judge people by them all the time.
If a guy shows up to give an estimate to paint your house and he's in a brand new Mercedes, he charges too much.
If you hire a lawyer to get you off the hook for a murder case and he drives a busted old Camry, he sucks and you need to find another one.
If somebody shows up at the welfare office in a Ferrari, the system is obviously broken.
The base cost isn't the problem, its keeping up with all the maintenance requirements and dumping 91 octane in it just to deliver pizzas. On a depreciation and maintenance basis, he's probably barely breaking even on that pizza delivery job.
With the power of youtube and a Tiny smidge of self confidence though.... there need not be huge maintenance. I owned a Porsche at one time on an under $20k/year job, bought it non-running (but cosmetically nice) and got it running for under $500. I don't think I dumped more than $1k into maintenance on that car over 5 years, not including tires (I was doing track events). This was before youtube too.
As for fuel, that car will run just fine on anything that's put into it. The beauty of closed-loop EFI. Giving up some power and fuel economy (smarter to run premium for the economy in a car designed for premium), but it's not THAT big of a deal.
BTW, the depreciation on a decade old MB is essentially done.
A co worker I know at Mcdonalds drive a Bentley car but is not a manager but the cashier
Bentleys are a little different, they do not depreciate like other cars, I find it hard to believe a cashier at McDs could afford even an older Bentley.
Bentleys are a little different, they do not depreciate like other cars, I find it hard to believe a cashier at McDs could afford even an older Bentley.
Probably a family car given to them or something similar to that. There’s a guy I follow on YouTube who has a sponsorship/job with autotrader. He bought cheapest Bentley in country on autotrader for $27k. It never ran right and was basically salvaged out of Moscow, but had clean carfax and odometer had been rolled back in Russia He luckily sold it for maybe $14k after dumping lots of money into it, plus everything needed to be replaced. Almost had to sell it for scrap value.
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