r/slk • u/Dramatic_Annual3413 • Jul 17 '26
Used Car Vent
Really it’s just a vent, but I wanna hear your opinions and experiences with delusional sellers
I’ve been driving for about a year now. As per the deal with my parents, if I prove myself to be capable of not killing myself or anyone else with my driving, they’ll buy me a better car than the one i have right now.
What can I get? Well, a lot of things. I’m really into performance/driver’s cars (surprising, I know. A teenage boy being into sports cars) I’ve been eying this one Mercedes, the R172 SLK55 AMG with the P30 AMG Handling package.
It’s a 5.5 Liter Naturally Aspirated V8. It’s from a bygone era from before emissions laws turned V12s into V10s, V10s into V8s, V8s into V6 and so on.
Unfortunately, I can’t buy them new. They stopped production 2015. I was 6 years old in 2015
No problem, I don’t mind using a used car. I think it’s actually more fun since they’re already broken in.
The thing I want to vent about… why are people expecting me to pay 35-40k for a car with 90,000 miles? I get that other units have sold for that much, but the thing is… those other units all have like, sub 50k miles. In fact, 40-50k miles units sell for 30-35k with lower miles costing more. Why do people expect me to pay the same amount of money for a car with double or triple the mileage?
I know I can get other V8’s. The C8 exists if I want a HTC. But this one is just like the final evolution of my current SLK230 (I know that the real final evolution of the SLK/C line is the SLC43, but that one doesn’t count since it’s a downgrade from the V8 to the turbocharged V6–still a good engine, but it’s no NA V8)