Depreciating so fast it will eat any money you spend on a new one like throwing $100 bills into a bon fire. They cost more to insure too, registration costs more, they eat expensive tires faster, only specialized mechanics that charge more can work on them & often parts are not available.
Pay $50K or $60K or $70K or $80K or $100K or more for a brand new one that loses $15,000 of value the moment your drive it off the dealership lot into the world. Do yourself a favor, if you like they way they look or drive, lease one for 2 or 3 or 4 years, then turn them back in to get out from under them before they break down. Replacing an engine or transmission in one of these expensive German made luxury cars can cost $20K or more. That is part of why they depreciate so fast.
Parts are repairs are very expensive, like Farari, with very high total costs of ownerships, or the highest cost per mile. Approaching the operating costs of a Robinson R22 helicopter in terms of cost per hour of driving in many cases of the most expensive automobiles, such as Bently or Rolls Royce, but at least those are made superlative with exceptional reliability & the smoothest possible ride quality, very posh indeed.
Anyone that knows automotive history knows that Toyota / Lexus the only automaker with a history of selling vehicles with legendary reliability. That means Camry, Corolla, Rav4, Tacoma, Tundra, Prius, Land Cruiser, Hybrid Synergy Drive versions of those vehicles or glib luxury tuned Lexus variations.
A well-known professional German car mechanic told me to avoid buying any new Mercedes Bens vehicles except some of the best AMG with hand built engines of very high performance as those ones are actually reliable long term, though also expense because of their heavy fuel consumption and similarly expensive service and repair costs, especially if your drive them fast the way there were designed to go.
He mentioned the VW Gold GT, Porsche Cayanne GTS, Audi RS6, & Mercedes CLC ass the worst examples, though that VW Turag holds records along with the MINI made by BMW, as the most unreliable cars made in Germany & sold around the world. Rolling piles of automotive depreciation that break down regularly, then when you take them to get repaired parts are not available, and or the repair costs are 2X or 3X or 4X more costly than a comparable automobile made in Japan or America or Korea.
In the 1980s the Germans build very reliable Mercedes vehicles and until 2024 in Austria Magna Styr also most hand made every Mercedes G-class based on a 1984 military SUV design for offroad use, though they made them very glib with big powerful engines & luxury focus for the consumer market, but kept the exceptionally strong drivetrain, suspension & frame largely unchanged for almost 40 years, though they discontinued the OG G-Wagon in 20204 as the last year of production Austria. Some people that worked at that Austrian G-class production factory worked there for their entire carrier & even some of these factory workers children were working with them until the operations ceased.
Mercedes did the unthinkable and decided to develop a more highway high speed consumer friendly model with less robust parts that cost less to make so more profitable, sort of the way GM converted the OG H1 Hummer into a half-baked Suburban copy with a body kit in the H2 that got even more stupid by H3. Mercedes also sold very reliable diesel sedans in the 1980's and 1990s, many of which continue to operate today setting odometer records, and others have been converted to run on biodiesel made from used fry oil, namely collected from fast food restaurants, namely GMO Rape Seed Oil or what they inaccurately call vegetable oil when its sold at the grocery or supermarket.
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