Time to move on...
10-04-10, 07:52 PM
#1
Time to move on...
As some acute readers may already know my wife is pregnant with our 3rd kid, he’s due in December and as the date get closer, the pressure for a more “family friendly” car became greater and greater. A few weeks ago I broke down and my wife and I even test drove the current German Wagon offering, 2011 Mercedes E350 estate and 2011 Audi A6 avant, I didn’t considered the BMW 5 Gran Turismo to be a wagon and the 3 series wagon is way too small; anyway, all these cars are nice but they are a far cry from the fun prescribed by the IS-F. At that point I felt like I was losing handle on the situation, so I half jokingly said to my wife, that I will sell my IS-F for an AMG Wagon.
Theses AMG Wagons are not easy to find, they only imported 322 in the US during the 4 years production run, and they were all special order only. As a matter of fact I only saw one on the road once, and I never saw one for sale; that was until Thursday 30, when 2 pop up on eBay motors, one being in LA the other in Wisconsin. After spending some time that night cross checking VIN number, vehicle history, option list and Mercedes Forums, I decided to take the day off on Friday to go see the LA car, fully aware of the modus operandi for this kind of find: I will be buying the car right there if it is clean.
And clean, it is, one of the 62 build for 2008, Black on Black with 15k miles, the car still has the protective plastic stickers on the door sills, trunk sills and in various places in the interior; the wheels do not have a single ding, not one; the paint quality is impressive as I could find any trace of light scratches or swirling. So I put a deposit right there; funny thing is while I was filling up the papers someone called from Canada to buy the car outright sight unseen over the phone, at that point our signatures where on the contract, the car was mine. I will be picking up the car Wednesday, in the meantime here are couple of cell phone pics.
I am selling my IS-F, preferably with all the carbon Fiber interior and exterior to a discriminate buyer that is looking for that special vehicle, please PM me if you are interested, I will be posting the ad in the upcoming days.
I am not leaving the Lexus family, as we are keeping our LS, but I will now burn rubber in a wagon!
Theses AMG Wagons are not easy to find, they only imported 322 in the US during the 4 years production run, and they were all special order only. As a matter of fact I only saw one on the road once, and I never saw one for sale; that was until Thursday 30, when 2 pop up on eBay motors, one being in LA the other in Wisconsin. After spending some time that night cross checking VIN number, vehicle history, option list and Mercedes Forums, I decided to take the day off on Friday to go see the LA car, fully aware of the modus operandi for this kind of find: I will be buying the car right there if it is clean.
And clean, it is, one of the 62 build for 2008, Black on Black with 15k miles, the car still has the protective plastic stickers on the door sills, trunk sills and in various places in the interior; the wheels do not have a single ding, not one; the paint quality is impressive as I could find any trace of light scratches or swirling. So I put a deposit right there; funny thing is while I was filling up the papers someone called from Canada to buy the car outright sight unseen over the phone, at that point our signatures where on the contract, the car was mine. I will be picking up the car Wednesday, in the meantime here are couple of cell phone pics.
I am selling my IS-F, preferably with all the carbon Fiber interior and exterior to a discriminate buyer that is looking for that special vehicle, please PM me if you are interested, I will be posting the ad in the upcoming days.
I am not leaving the Lexus family, as we are keeping our LS, but I will now burn rubber in a wagon!
10-04-10, 09:50 PM
#4
It's rare, indeed. Congrats on a cool family hauler. 
As some acute readers may already know my wife is pregnant with our 3rd kid, he’s due in December and as the date get closer, the pressure for a more “family friendly” car became greater and greater. A few weeks ago I broke down and my wife and I even test drove the current German Wagon offering, 2011 Mercedes E350 estate and 2011 Audi A6 avant, I didn’t considered the BMW 5 Gran Turismo to be a wagon and the 3 series wagon is way too small; anyway, all these cars are nice but they are a far cry from the fun prescribed by the IS-F. At that point I felt like I was losing handle on the situation, so I half jokingly said to my wife, that I will sell my IS-F for an AMG Wagon.
Theses AMG Wagons are not easy to find, they only imported 322 in the US during the 4 years production run, and they were all special order only. As a matter of fact I only saw one on the road once, and I never saw one for sale; that was until Thursday 30, when 2 pop up on eBay motors, one being in LA the other in Wisconsin. After spending some time that night cross checking VIN number, vehicle history, option list and Mercedes Forums, I decided to take the day off on Friday to go see the LA car, fully aware of the modus operandi for this kind of find: I will be buying the car right there if it is clean.
And clean, it is, one of the 62 build for 2008, Black on Black with 15k miles, the car still has the protective plastic stickers on the door sills, trunk sills and in various places in the interior; the wheels do not have a single ding, not one; the paint quality is impressive as I could find any trace of light scratches or swirling. So I put a deposit right there; funny thing is while I was filling up the papers someone called from Canada to buy the car outright sight unseen over the phone, at that point our signatures where on the contract, the car was mine. I will be picking up the car Wednesday, in the meantime here are couple of cell phone pics.
I am selling my IS-F, preferably with all the carbon Fiber interior and exterior to a discriminate buyer that is looking for that special vehicle, please PM me if you are interested, I will be posting the ad in the upcoming days.
I am not leaving the Lexus family, as we are keeping our LS, but I will now burn rubber in a wagon!
Theses AMG Wagons are not easy to find, they only imported 322 in the US during the 4 years production run, and they were all special order only. As a matter of fact I only saw one on the road once, and I never saw one for sale; that was until Thursday 30, when 2 pop up on eBay motors, one being in LA the other in Wisconsin. After spending some time that night cross checking VIN number, vehicle history, option list and Mercedes Forums, I decided to take the day off on Friday to go see the LA car, fully aware of the modus operandi for this kind of find: I will be buying the car right there if it is clean.
And clean, it is, one of the 62 build for 2008, Black on Black with 15k miles, the car still has the protective plastic stickers on the door sills, trunk sills and in various places in the interior; the wheels do not have a single ding, not one; the paint quality is impressive as I could find any trace of light scratches or swirling. So I put a deposit right there; funny thing is while I was filling up the papers someone called from Canada to buy the car outright sight unseen over the phone, at that point our signatures where on the contract, the car was mine. I will be picking up the car Wednesday, in the meantime here are couple of cell phone pics.
I am selling my IS-F, preferably with all the carbon Fiber interior and exterior to a discriminate buyer that is looking for that special vehicle, please PM me if you are interested, I will be posting the ad in the upcoming days.
I am not leaving the Lexus family, as we are keeping our LS, but I will now burn rubber in a wagon!
10-04-10, 09:59 PM
#6
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Great choice!
Also great compromise on fun and still meeting the family requirements. Congrats on little person #3!
Also great compromise on fun and still meeting the family requirements. Congrats on little person #3!
