Hello, now it’s going to be exciting, because I’m going to scratch the G 500’s aura in my next post (Bj. 1998-2007). I recently bought a G 320 (M 112), year 1998. I deliberately bought a G 500 (M 113) with the same price offers on the market. I’m going to report on the reasons and my experiences here. Step 1: actual comparison The G 320 (M 112 E 32, V6) is technically G 500 (M 113 E 50, V8). Both have a cylinder spacing of 106 mm and an angle of 90° between the cylinder benches. They were manufactured partly on the same production facilities, and there were many identical parts. Both have an engine block made of light metal with cast-in cylinder bushings made of Silitec (Al-Si alloy) and a light metal cylinder head with an overhead camshaft per cylinder bench. Like the M 113, the M 112 has two inlet valves and an outlet valve per Zylin The V6 engine has a compression of 10.0 : 1, the V8 engine has a compression of 10.1 : 1. The G 320 (M 112) has 82 hp and 150 Nm less than the G 500 (M 113), but the G 500 is only 24 km/h faster in the top than the G 320 (…Top speed speed speed driving with a G, year 1998, is m.E. nonsense, because a G is, since 1979, a off-road car, not an AMG -sports car) and accelerates only 2 s faster from 0 to 100 km/h. This means that the consumption of a G 320 (M 112) is on average 4.8 l/100 km below a G 500 (M 113). This amounts to 1,020,- EUR per year (with the same driving performance per year). The 320 V6 consumes less than the older G 320 R6 and has good emission values for its time. Thanks to its balancing shaft, the unit runs very low vibration. The G 320 V6 has, like the G 500 V8, an electronically controlled five-speed automatic transmission (Bj. 1998). The G 500 was fully equipped ex factory (leather, air conditioning, root wood, 18-inch wheels, etc.). However, it had to be ordered for example sunroof, stand heating, sound system and stepping boards extra. At the G 320 even more had to be ordered to get the same equipment. More than the G 320 in 1998. The G 320 V6, especially in the version station long, has become rarer today than the G 500 (with the same year of construction). With the old petrol engines before 2001 the G 320 (V6 as well as R6) is today one of the most popular. G 500 /Bj. 1998-2007) exists today, like sand by the sea. Tax and insurance are, due to the displacement difference, cheaper with the G 320, than with the G 500. The difference is 888,- EUR per year (same insurance class, same exhaust gas no. m). The cost of inspection per year is equal, although in fact some of the parts installed in the G 500 are more expensive at MB than in the G 320. Step 2: subjective comparison – follows.