Twin-turbo V8 goodness for only £17,494. Who's feeling brave?
- although with an advert that seemed to have been written on a Nokia mobile phone.
Of course, any big-engined Merc from this period offers an enhanced level of peril, as do many of the smaller-engined ones. Our Pill dates from after the true nadir of Merc build quality - the time in the late nineties and early noughties when many were sporting visible rust before their fifth birthdays - and the reputation turned from bank vault to rank fault.
Mechanically the news is generally better. Our Pill is late enough to have the twin-turbo M157 5.5-litre V8, which is generally reckoned to be pretty tough if looked after - and which had a low-rev muscularity that suited the car’s character better than the revvier naturally aspirated M156 of earlier W221s.
The advert does highlight a few issues. The first is a colour change, with the original black having been inverted with a pearlescent wrap. The pictures suggest this has been applied to a decent standard, and the car’s hue has been changed on the DVLA database, which often isn’t the case with lower-cost conversions by Stanley knife merchants. But whoever did the wrapping put the tailgate badge on wrong - too high and incorrectly spaced.
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