Hello, after a long time I am now ready to enjoy an upper class car from the 90s. As an everyday car, my “bread and butter car”, the Hyundai i10, continues to serve as my “bread and butter car”. The luxury vehicle is to be moved only about 5000 km a year in beautiful weather. For a long time I have been working on the topic of Mercedes S-Class W140 and have read various purchase advices. In addition, at the usual car exchanges on the Internet I have the corresponding vehicles in the vicinity I already picked out, which I would like to visit partly next week. Here I noticed that the offer is very thin, because just not many vehicles of this type are on the road in Germany. Furthermore, it seems not easy to find a half-way good specimen in the price range. Alternatively, I like the BMW 7er e38 very well. I did not find really detailed purchase advice. In addition, I have the impression that one gets quite well-preserved vehicles with an extensive equipment for less than 5000 EUR. A decisive topic is the maintenance costs. I am aware that such a vehicle (whether BMW or Mercedes) has to be technically closely accompanied and a lot of money will devour. Here is to mention that I can live better with mechanical problems than with electric ones. So now enough swabbles … which car can exist? Where do you see the advantages and disadvantages of these vehicles?