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Ncube:
Hi Guy's.

Really need your advice, I have been driving a Peugeot 406 for the last 6yrs & I plan to upgrade to a Benz.

My friend advised I go for the 2005 Mercedes e350. Problem is I have heard a lot of frightening stories about the Benz, some say it has high cost of maintenance & that the fuel consumption is high but the most scary are the cost of spare parts.

Though I am a complete novice when it comes to Benz, I must confess I am already madly in love with the e350.

Please advise.

bizzle2:
You didn't answer my question though.
What features does the MDX offer that you cannot find on an ML550 of equivalent year? not a GLK , C Class or an ML 350. But a 550 specifically ?
That lends a better perspective to your opinion.

The Advance , Tech , Entertainment , Navigation and Sport Packages on the MDX have just minor differences that mainly cater to certain comfort and entertainment priorities.
Mine is a Tech Package.

I believe to objectively compare two cars requires more than just saying A is better than B (which is largely personal opinion), the idea would be to say WHY & HOW A is better than B .

If design figures and test ratings show that the 550 betters the MDX in the categories I mentioned earlier, HOW then does the MDX better the 550 ?
I'm very open to learning. I'm a big MDX fan remember. But a spade is a spade.
I don't own a workshop or fix cars but my background is in Mechanical Engineering (Automotive Tech Engineering Option specifically). Even though my love for cars has nothing to do with that.

bizzle2:
Lose alot of what? Lol, I beg to differ.
Features like what ?
The MDX is anything but feature packed. As far as value for money and fun driving go I cannot fault her, but advance tech? Mba. The 550 blows her out of the water.

I'm not even trying to compare the 2013 MDX to the 2013 ML550. they're not in the same class if you ask me. I'm just looking for hands on experience with owning a 550 locally. Which I consider an upgrade from the MDX.

Interior styling/ luxury and exterior styling - 550 wins
Performance - 550 wins
Crash/ Safety ratings - 550 wins
Advanced Tech features - 550 wins
Handling - both great
Fuel economy - A V8 Biturbo cannot possibly be expected to have the same as a naturally aspirated V6. More power mens more energy consumption. The 550 doesn't even do too badly in comparison to the MDX

Reliability and local availability of parts are my primary concern about the 550

dokyOloye:
Them get herd mentality and hero worship/ass licking behaviour well well for here.
So,a simple academic exercise of "which is better in what" turns out to be a poke in the eye for them.

chukel:
this is from your wikipedia. Just don't argue this. You can't have a 2004 ml320. If you do, then check your car well. Something is wrong somewhere. Either a wrong badge or transplanted engine.

MASTAkiLLAh:
This talk about ML’s from early 2000’s made me remember my old ml500 sport (which was very reliable by the way) so I decided to do a research on that baby once more (anything 350 or 500) and edmunds.com had glowing user reviews while carsurvey had a lot of tears. I kept wondering, aren’t these sites using the same mostly American public as reviewers ? One thing edmunds reviewers agreed on though is that the gas mileage on the ML is atrocious (debatable).
I really miss that baby though, one of my best driving experience ever, very responsive and built like a tank. Gazzuzz posted some ML pics a while back and I remembered my shalaye days, I just might go back if I see a great offer.

DAVE5:
Nah

Was driving when I saw it, haven’t seen it since then and car is in a great condition

Sorry though

18k: not much sha

The last rubbish my car did was when my compressor got burnt/smoked while I was driving, spent abt 100k fixing ery ery, so fear dey catch make anything do am cos I know it cost a lot to fix simple stuffs in these cars


Trinity; is that a person or place?

Cos I know trinity in Ilorin or so, been to too many places in this obodo Naija, we dey pray 4 wen we go become “been to quite a few places around the world”

proeast:
The reason why the Niger Delta is in a mess is because the people can't think critically.
The oil is drilled in their villages and they suffer all the collateral damages yet others in faraway places are the ones enjoying the proceeds.

How many of them even own oil wells?
East West road is still in terrible condition but not only has the federal government repaired those in other zones, they've now advanced to the level of building rails and other infrastructures.

Ordinary headquarters of the oil companies that are drilling the oil are not even in the Niger Delta, instead they're in other places paying huge taxes to those state government, employing the indigenes of those places while they continue to suffer as their farmlands are polluted, streams polluted, air polluted and when rain falls, it baths them with acid rain

They keep shouting our oyel this, Igbo that, while afonjas and abo.kis cart everything away.

Ndi eriri eri

Tranquill:
Na wa o!
You've extended your false claims to Wike's wife who is from Ahoada in Rivers State.

How you even got your 80% Okrika man, I don't know.

I can dash you Amaech's wife because I can feel your desperation bro.

Arrow144:
you are very right.

MASTAkiLLAh:
why not 30 naira ? At least op stole the car, smuggled it inside handbag and used spit to clear it at Apapa

proeast:
Another BULSHIT.
Peter Odili's wife is from Mbaise in Imo state.
Peter Obi's wife is from Akwa Ibom.
Okonjo Iweala married a man from Abia state. Three prominent personalities I just pulled from my head in a second! There are tens of thousands others too!

Who are those running the whole sale, distribution, retail and services industry of not just Niger Delta but Nigeria as a whole if not Igbos? Yet this one is telling himself lies that they don't do business with Igbos. So who they do business with, fulani? Yoruba? Who exactly??

laivwire:
Why?

Says who?
It can be a 240 for all I know. This is an M112

chukel:
i stand to be corrected. No 04/05 ml320. That engine was stopped in 02. From 03 it was the 3.7L engine designated ML350

BamBamK:
bros, dey try calm down first before u reply posts at times....

the 2 cars na d same model. the production of one discontinued the other.

lucasalves:
And where exactly is the number 1 destination of igbos? do you see anyone trooping into Igboland? infact for every Igbo living in the East, there are 3 living in Lagos alone not to talk of other places.

Have you ever had to accommodate foreigners in your region as much as Lagos? (without kidnapping them). So don't even try to paint a picture of Yorubas as unaccommodating when the opposite is the case, if anything Yorubas are too accommodating, numbers don't lie the SW region has the highest number of non indigenes living in it without threat of violence against any sect.

Try and go to the North and you will know you are talking in the rubbish. If dem no use you do suya, you dey lucky, if your place was accommodating why don't we see people going there in droves, instead that same Lagos crowd keep receiving you ingrates with open arms. You can't change reality, and you won't be half of whatever you think you are without that Lagos crowd.

RichBoy247:
An Igbo man will nevr ever rule Nigeria. The grasscutter Babachir is Tinubu's boy, so he is routing for a South Western President and never an Igbo President. Stop deceiving yourself.

Presidency ooo, you will not get.
Baifra oooo, you will not get.
Restructuring oooo, you will never see.

When your brother Goatluck was looting, you did not shout Biafra because you were looting with him. Now, that we have pushed your drunk brother out of power, you now remember Biafra and Restrucuring. Now, tell me, why did Goatluck not Restrucutre? He produced a dumb Constitution and gave it to Buhari to implment. Thunder Fire una.

35824L:
The southwest deserves to get President in 2023. They worked for it, they earned it. It will get mass support like MKO in 1993. It will be the end of the old guard. A new Nigeria will be born.

IronGalaxy:
in Seun's forum (correction).. you own nothing but a pair of flip flops

lucasalves:
I'm pretty sure there were some 2x2 shop owners chanting the same thing too, crying about how foreigners are threatening their businesses. It's a glass house, so beware where you decide to throw the stone

ezechi24:
Just listen to yourself ...a Yoruba man talking like a kid...because one Igbo man sells fake drugs now all Igbo's sells fake drugs...all the cultists killing each other in ikorodu and Ogun state are they Igbos? Oga as there are bad people in every tribes even within the Chinese and the Norwegians...we have Igbo's with legitimate businesses that pays their tax and Yoruba's that constitute nuisance all over the world...hushpupy and mompha are not Igbo men...I beg reason with your head next time.

lucasalves:
Must you act a fool?

lucasalves:
Yeah yeah sure, when in doubt blame everyone but yourself.

jneutron4000:
You are still not making any sense, how will you proof that Nigeria has got human capital when your country is a shithole you want to build roads, bridges etc you have to either bring the Chinese or Germans to build it for you and you are claiming Nigeria has human capital, hahaha you are very funny. Do not get me wrong, there are individual Nigerians with human capital and western countries appreciate them and " brain drained" Nigeria by granting them visa and stay permit, for the instance the Nigeria doctors UK wanted them to come during the peak of covid 19 when the NHS was stressed, despite the fact that inbound and outbound flight was suspended, the UK still wanted to find a way to take them in. If you go back to my previous response to you, i explained that countries want skilled migrants or migrants that will invest into their economy and not economic migrants that will bleed their economy, and make life harder for them, If the Ibos are impacting the Ghanians economy positively, am sure the government will not be stupid to lock their shops.
On the example you stated that Russian will not chase out Polish or Cezch out, why will Russian do that, those two countries are developed and they have proven that they have human capital. Why did Donald Trump said that people from Norwey and other European countries should be allowed in and people from some poor Africa countries and middle east should be banned from coming in, because Norwegians have gat money and human capital. Me now as a Yoruba man, i do not mind people from Americans, Canadians, Japan and Europe (excluding the conny English whose aim is to steal) come in to Yoruba land because i know they will most likely to bring in money and brain to shape and develop the Yoruba land and actually, i will like to deport and ask Fulanis terrorizing yorubas in their farm land and ibos selling fake drugs and doing criminal activities in our town and cities to leave Yoruba land.

IronGalaxy:
in Seun's forum (correction).. you own nothing but a pair of flip flops