This was a car to impress your neighbors a quarter-century ago. The mileage to date ... speaks volumes of its usefulness beyond that initial wow factor.

The LC made 230hp. The ML55 was a rocket ship compared to the LC. I was looking at power numbers and the Escalade was still rocking 255hp. The Expedition was a slug. The Durango and Grand Cherokee were at 250hp. I think this was one of the first fast suv’s.

I want to hide in plain sight with a deceptively fast hot rod.

I own a’99 E55 AMG.. The W210 chassis was the last Benz built at the AMG factory before the total merger with Mercedes and it is worlds better than  the ML could ever hope to be. Too bad a GL55 cant be had for that price but the E 55 certainly can. . Thats Cayenne money if you must have an SUV. Diceless

You seem to think that not standing out is a liability. I look at it more like a secret superpower.

A Land Cruiser, which I would be more comfortable owning. 

This was a car to impress your neighbors a quarter-century ago. The mileage to date–all by one owner–speaks volumes of its usefulness beyond that initial wow factor. Although I guess it saw practical duty at least once, based on the ick in the load area.

or at any other place with security CHOKE points.  How many people are packed cheek to jowl trying to get into a NFL?

I read a fiction novel, where terroists started bombing the security lines. Its a perfect vector now. Bags aren’t screened on entry to the airport - so a huge roller bag of c4 can come right into line - and there are often 1000+ people packed tightly waiting to get through a security bottleneck..

In the past, the advice to passengers in a hijacking scenario was to sit tight and comply with the hijackers’ instructions. By and large, until 9/11, that advice had worked. Some hijackings had resulted in the deaths of a few passengers but the overwhelming majority of aircraft passengers had survived hijacking…

This is post-BK GM. This thing debuted for 2013. GM filed BK in 2009.

and a 10 yr old battery.  Replaceable (theoretically anyway) but that’s gonna add some significant cost to the TCO going foward.

Over $13k for a pre-bankrupt GM product with over 120k miles on it?

I can’t understand the ND pricing. If you want an off-road only vehicle, this with the upgraded axles and powertrain is a great starting point. If you want a driver for the street, it might not take much to get it to legal status depending on your state. It wouldn’t take that much to turn it back to 1941 spec, at…

Every 959 is just a body kit slapped on a 911.

That last paragraph seems to directly conflict with the title.

Wait, I’m confused. So it wasn’t actually built from a 959, and it’s just a body kit slapped on a 911?

Congratulations on the sleuthing - 5 stars for you.

NP with this mileage and price. But wait a few months longer and and it’ll be an even nicer price. EVs still have some more freefalling to do, even Porsche EVs.

Doing a license plate lookup and a VIN Analytics report shows it has the big (93.6 kWh gross) battery.  Absolutely NP if the CarFax is clean.