Nowadays, buying a luxury brand medium and large car has become a "necessity" for some people with high quality of life.
People who choose these products may have more consideration for brand value, luxury, technology and comfort when buying a car. So when you have a budget of 400,000 or 500,000, how do you choose from it? In fact, there are not many products to choose from, nothing more than Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi and Lexus brands.
Recently, a friend approached me because of a car selection problem, and he got stuck in the choice of "difficult problem".
500,000 to buy a car, these three options are not conventional?
2022 is more than a decade since I've known Lao Wu, who was my physical education teacher and track and field coach. At that time, the impression of him still stayed on the Chang'an Suzuki antelope he drove, which was really a bit old; later Lao Wu came out of the school and started his own business, a niche fitness equipment business.
It is also with the development of the fitness industry in recent years, so that he has made a lot of money, purchased real estate and changed cars; this is not recently his daughter-in-law's car has just been sold, and he wants to let Lao Wu change it again. So, Lao Wu began to think about what car to change for his lover, he is currently driving the previous generation of Mercedes-Benz S-Class, if you change your lover, it must be a luxury car, and the acceptable price is about 550,000. 500,000 to buy a luxury car, there is also an additional condition not to SUV.
The options he gave were the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, BMW 5 Series and Lexus ES. I don't hear anything right, how come there is no Audi A6L? Lao Wu's answer is that female users open an Audi A6L is indeed somewhat uncoordinated, and she does not like the Audi A6L, the technical level is no problem in our view, and the price is also appropriate, but it is "face value" is not passed. Because his lover was in isolation, there was no way to watch the car together, so Lao Wu could only take pictures and videos of her throughout the process.
The next step is to narrow the scope to the above three cars, and finally Lao Wu chose the Mercedes-Benz E-Class for his wife, why?
It has nothing to do with the price, but the texture
Lao Wu and I went to the dealership where he bought the Mercedes-Benz S-Class before, and he had also come over under my introduction before, all of whom were acquaintances, and we came over in advance to say hello; probably because it was a weekday morning, there was no one.
Up we directly asked the current price, 2022 model remodel E 300L sports fashion type should be almost budgeted, the clerk calculated the budget, is about the car price + 13,000 yuan or so insurance + 3,000 yuan on the license fee + 37,000 yuan or so of purchase tax + loan interest, a total of 500,000 or so, for Lao Wu the budget is appropriate.
After calculating the price of the car, Lao Wu wanted to get on the car to experience it. Since he drives a Mercedes-Benz S-Class, he should compare the design and texture of the car. The result is, of course, that the design is very good, but inferior to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which is reasonable after all, the latter is the Mercedes-Benz flagship sedan; then the texture, needless to compare, Lao Wu said "definitely or imported quality is good" (personal opinion).
Not as good as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class he drove, but overall the static inside and outside the car, Lao Wu was satisfied, and then he gave his lover a video, opened the "live" mode, and talked for about 15 minutes. After coming out of the car, he advocated to test drive a lap, the 2.0T high-power engine is what Lao Wu wants to give him the person he loves, he thinks that the power is very important, you can not use it but you have to have "just in case" His original words, after a simple test drive, the overall texture can not pick out any problems, decent performance.
But in the end, Lao Wu still left a "living word" for the Mercedes-Benz dealer store, and we went to other brands to see, and after shopping from the BMW store, we decided to book a car for Mercedes-Benz. Why didn't you choose Lexus and BMW? Let's move on.
Wait a few more months, why choose to pick up a Mercedes-Benz?
First went to the Lexus store and looked at the Lexus ES. We also know that this car has always been the price of "firm", only concerned about the problem of the car cycle, the dealer's reply is that if the current car does not have a suitable model, it may take several months to wait for the car, and the specific months are uncertain.
Lao Wu picked one of the hybrid products of Lexus ES, the 300h sub-top match, and the show car was white. After taking a photo of his daughter-in-law and getting the recognition of his appearance, he began to talk about specific details and experience the exhibition car. The price is about 430,000 300h, the price after landing is also about 500,000, in lao Wu's budget, there are 6 years or 200,000 kilometers of free maintenance, which makes female car owners very worry-free when driving, but also mixed, or imported.
Overall, Lexus ES from the quality, after-sales, use of the car several points of view, are quite appropriate, but after Lao Wu took the video in the car, Lao Wu's lover immediately vetoed the car, calling it "the car is too straight, not Mercedes-Benz that looks good." Sure enough, the consideration of women's cars is mainly from the aesthetic point of view.
So we came out of the Lexus dealership and turned around and went to the BMW store.
On the way to go, I and Lao Wu also said that "now there are not a few female owners who look at the BMW 5 Series on the road, and most of them are white BMW 5 Series, or it is quite appropriate for your wife to come to a BMW 5 Series." After arriving at the store, I learned about the price and pick-up cycle, the budget of about 500,000 can be landed, about 1 month to pick up the car, and mercedes-Benz E-class changes are not much and acceptable. Lao Wu has already experienced the dynamic and static performance of this car, so he did not toss it again.
The reason for the final veto is a comprehensive consideration, the budget of early 500,000 yuan, the landing price is almost the 530Li leading type, the configuration is less than the Mercedes-Benz he chose, and the optional items are not particularly complete. Later, Lao Wu returned to the Mercedes-Benz store the next day, fixed the Mercedes-Benz E-class, and also selected the configuration of full-speed adaptive cruise, front seat ventilation, and steering wheel heating, so he had to wait for the car for a longer time, mainly to let his lover have a more comfortable experience with the car.
summary
Sifting out Audi from luxury brands, I can understand Lao Wu's intentions, after all, it is a model purchased for women, and the Audi A6L is indeed difficult to match a female user. The last two choices, either BMW 5 Series or Mercedes-Benz E-Class, these two are old Wu lovers can look at, Lao Wu's role is to choose a more practical one in the only two cars, and pay for it.
Pay attention to the retention rate, the 2019 Mercedes-Benz is remodeled to the E 300 L fashion model, the landing price of the new car is about 505,000, and the price of the second-hand car after driving nearly 80,000 kilometers is about 388,000. The 2018 BMW 5 Series 530Li leading model, the landing price of the new car is about 517,700, and after driving 35,000 kilometers, the price of the second-hand car is about 358,000 yuan.