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As you'll note from my signature block, I'm a little biased...

However, "Bessie" was my parent's third LS. I bought her from them when they bought a 2006 LS430. Each of these cars has seen more than 100K miles and they've been rock solid.

Bessie now has just under 130K miles on the odo. She was rear ended(my Mom walked away from with nothing worse than stress and shock while the people that rear ended her went in an ambulance to the hospital) but you'd never know except the rear badging no longer has the Coach label. Lexus put Bessie back together good as new and just this March me and two buddies took Bessie to Angels spring training in AZ. She is as serene at triple digits as the day my Mom bought her and she returned more than 24mpg round trip in nearly 2,000 miles over four days.

The car still looks, drives, and feels brand new.

MB makes some very nice cars. I'm not going to bash their products. But I do think that in the last decade or so, reliability has slipped. If it were me, I'd buy the Lexus no question.

<blockquote data-quote="Da Hapa" data-source="post: 623943" data-attributes="member: 5686">As you&#039;ll note from my signature block, I&#039;m a little biased...However, &quot;Bessie&quot; was my parent&#039;s third LS.&nbsp; I bought her from them when they bought a 2006 LS430.&nbsp; Each of these cars has seen more than 100K miles and they&#039;ve been rock solid.Bessie now has just under 130K miles on the odo.&nbsp; She was rear ended(my Mom walked away from with nothing worse than stress and shock while the people that rear ended her went in an ambulance to the hospital) but you&#039;d never know except the rear badging no longer has the Coach label.&nbsp; Lexus put Bessie back together good as new and just this March me and two buddies took Bessie to Angels spring training in AZ.&nbsp; She is as serene at triple digits as the day my Mom bought her and she returned more than 24mpg round trip in nearly 2,000 miles over four days.&nbsp; The car still looks, drives, and feels brand new.MB makes some very nice cars.&nbsp; I&#039;m not going to bash their products.&nbsp; But I do think that in the last decade or so, reliability has slipped.&nbsp; If it were me, I&#039;d buy the Lexus no question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Da Hapa, post: 623943, member: 5686"] As you'll note from my signature block, I'm a little biased... However, "Bessie" was my parent's third LS. I bought her from them when they bought a 2006 LS430. Each of these cars has seen more than 100K miles and they've been rock solid. Bessie now has just under 130K miles on the odo. She was rear ended(my Mom walked away from with nothing worse than stress and shock while the people that rear ended her went in an ambulance to the hospital) but you'd never know except the rear badging no longer has the Coach label. Lexus put Bessie back together good as new and just this March me and two buddies took Bessie to Angels spring training in AZ. She is as serene at triple digits as the day my Mom bought her and she returned more than 24mpg round trip in nearly 2,000 miles over four days. The car still looks, drives, and feels brand new. MB makes some very nice cars. I'm not going to bash their products. But I do think that in the last decade or so, reliability has slipped. If it were me, I'd buy the Lexus no question. [/QUOTE]

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