I hear you there Dan. I love black as well, but I just don't have the time to clean it Our next door neighbor just bought a S600, and while I don't know him, I was joking around with my friend by saying his car is only worth $90,000 now instead of $120,000 because of the dirt
I've realized that leaving the M5 would be the dumbest thing for me to do, esp. since I don't need a sports car from this thing (altho this whole 4 door thing is kinda wierd ).
I just hope this gets resolved in a timely fashion.
And yes, Black is WONDERFUL. I'd even do it agian (and take care of it the right way), but le mans is almost as gorgeous, and FAR less maintenance.
I got a new Mercedes out of MB of N.A. The whole thing was handled by the owner of Mercedes-Benz of Nashville. I had bought a new 2000 S-500, in July of '99. During a drive from NYC to Nashville, I noticed that the odometer, and trip indicator were not collecting miles in tandem. They would change randomly. They offered me a new cluster, and I went to the owner of the franchise and explained that there was no way they could prove how many miles I had on the car. He told me that when the time came for me to trade it in, by law, he would have to inventory it as a "mileage unknown vehicle." He went to war w/MB.
A few months later, he asked me to lunch, and threw me the keys to a brand new 2000 S-500. He asked me to pay 26cents per mile. I asked him based on how many miles (the car showed 13,500 at the time). He laughed, and told me to make up a number. I settled on 10,000 miles. So, for $2600, I got a brand new car.
Wow. Very cool. Well, I didn't buy my car from the dealer I'm having it serviced at.
I just hope this process isn't drawn out. Lemon Law ruling states that the manufacturer as no more than 30 days by which to respond to a formal complaint. I haven't gotten there yet (trying it out of court first), but there's no way I'm going to let this draw out for more than a coupel of weeks.
What I've observed over the years is that you don't buy a Maserati with the intent of ever actually driving the thing much.
I don't know if it's so much that they're ****, they're just based on a differeht philosophy of car ownership: you wash it Saturday, drive it Sunday, you drop it off at the shop Monday morning, you leave it there so that it can socialize a little, pick it up Friday, lather, rinse, repeat.
I certainly wouldn't be expecting current renditions to be much better suited to the role of 'transportation'.
Hey, it's built by ferrari now, and look at the LEAPS they've made in the 360. sure it's not at that calibre yet, but the 360 is pretty much daily driveable.
Our next door neighbor just bought a S600, and while I don't know him, I was joking around with my friend by saying his car is only worth $90,000 now instead of $120,000 because of the dirt 
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