$8500 is about $2K too high for one with no issues. It’s about $4K too high for one with a permanent airbag light on. The issue could be simple--perhaps he didn’t reconnect the wires when he took the steering wheel off for some reason, or perhaps the whole system is compromised. Either an $80 fix or an $8000 fix. Not…

Rob, just for saying “unnecessary-accessory debauchery” you win the day!

I believe just about everyone on the show was the villain. Maybe not the one-armed gal, but just about everyone else.

Three words: mid engine locost.

I had an automatic version of this car for a week as a loaner a couple of years back. The W8 was lacking a lot of its famed torque. Turns out it was transforming that power into mayonnaise. The head gasket was leaking badly enough to spray coolant into the oil passageways where it had enough heat and furious motion to…

That’s me. I’m on my 7th high-milage used Mercedes, and my wife needs something with more interior room than her Outback, AND we live in the mountains.

This car is every bit as practical as a Morgan 3-Wheeler, and almost as appealing. I for one love the styling— just not enough to throw almost$50,000 at it.

It takes the “f” out of “paradigm shift”

It would be an un-conventional smoothie.

This would be a very nice price

I hope you didn't squirt kale-watermelon smoothie out your nose. That would make my car far less rare and desirable.

My convertible is the only metallic beige 300CE in the world that has had my custom kale-watermelon smoothie recipe spilled into its carpet, making it one-of-a-kind rare!

My thought is that collectors spending potentially $88,000 are not that likely to buy from a craigslist ad in ALL CAPS.

Advertise the thing on Hemmings for $98,000 with lots of gentle text explaining pompously the features and rarity, then negotiate down by $10,000. Win-win.

Of I could be sure of the structural integrity, you're right.

Yes. It pains me to vote No Dice on a $2000 car, but with the potential for electrical issues, intake and/or injection issues,perhaps hidden structural rust, and the complete lack of effort on the seller's part to start a superfund clean up, this is at most an $850 car. 

The W210 wagon was an excellent car. My last one had 325K miles on it when my son wrecked it, and didn’t leak oil yet. Of course, I bought it for $2500 with 268 miles on it, but it had been scrupulously maintained. Then after my son drove it into the back of a truck, I stretched the body metal back into shape with a…

I’m reminded of a moment in Entourage when someone threatens to tell Ari’s wife that she’s not driving a real S600.

Engine wiring harness is a bugbear for the 93-96 models. Proceed with caution. 

This (the W124 platform in general) is the last of the over-engineered Mercedes. I got 400K miles out of my first one (though it was in genuinely sorry shape when I sold it, but it’d still pull 75mph up a steep hill).

my suggestion for a name change would have been “Delightful or Delusional”