Re: Be carefully - in Mainland-Europe the VCV is arround - The Vito Complaint Vi

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Geschrieben von Andy Brady am 08. September 2001 21:36:34:

Als Antwort auf: Be carefully - in Mainland-Europe the VCV is arround - The Vito Complaint Virus geschrieben von Ralf 2 am 08. September 2001 02:22:52:

Hi Ralf,

I also wonder how I can afford a Vito in Britain!!

Just so you people in Germany and Europe know how well you a treated consider this.

I bought a Vito Petrol 113 Kombi in 1998 with an Automatic Gearbox, central locking, drivers airbag and tinted windows (no ABS or traction control as standard in 1998). This cost me including tax about DM62000

We can only buy the 113 petrol not 114 model, we only got the turbo diesels in 1999! And you can only buy the basic Kombi, the Vito L is not sold in Britain, or is the Vito F and Marco Polo :-(
And do not ask for a discount, they will not give one!

The V Klasse starts at about DM74000 plus about DM3600 for an Automatic Gearbox

We get a 1 year warranty and the main service costs about DM1100!

I did consider importing a Vito from Europe, but MB here in Britain made it clear that there would be 'problems' with servicing it as it would not be UK model.

Road tax here in Britain is about DM450 a year
Diesel is DM 2.4 a Litre, Petrol is about the same, this is not a joke!

The roads in Britain are very overcrowded, we have 26,000,000 cars on our roads! they are in a poor state, and also we have thousands of GATSO speed cameras (grrrr!) enforcing a maximum speed on our main roads 112kph. You can see now why I love the Autobahns!

Oh and don't even ask what a VW Multivan costs! I think is about DM80000+

Still, consider this, after all the years of overcharging us for our cars and service Mercedes has 'thanked' its dealers by sacking them all from the end of this year!!!

So tomorrow I'm off to your country of nice roads, nice scenery and nice people!

Best regards to you and all other Vito fans

Andy





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