Why the Mercedes Benz S550 Is the Best Used Luxury Car Under $40,000! 

Totally agree that any iterations of the W222's exterior and most interior features are more appealing than the W223.

Awesome video;very detailed Thanx!

Great video with detailed infor

Excellent review!

Nice review. Thanks!

Great video!

I'll soon go for one.

Well done, good buy. I own a limousine company in Australian. 30 years of experience talks with respect to everyone reading this message. Audi A8, Mercedes S class , Bentley flying Spur and rolls Royce ghost or Phantom, SECOND HAND, stay right away from it, they all have faults and are expensive to run. Other than mileage the years can make a lot of components go brittle. Be prepared that just with soft driving and servicing it yourself you cannot avoid costs.the worst is the Audi A8. Great video and respect to all, enjoy the 500!

Totally agree, this is the most beautiful Mercedes ever.

Just got one. GREAT VIDEO

Very informative video, you did a great work. And no 100 of "you guys". 👍

Good job

Great video im in the market now for one. Nice rolex my brother.

Our local Mercedes has a lot of used W222 models with under 50k for less than $60,000. The problem is, these cars are no joke on maintenance. I had a 2015. They guzzle gas. Wheel repair/ replacement is astronomical. Off warranty, they are a nightmare.

I love that the W223 models come mostly loaded. Heated/ventilated/ massage seats are mostly standard. The only real option to search for is the rear-seat luxury package.

Can you do a oil change and check level video

Excellent review although it felt like it had a lot of road noise and was bumpy during the drive.

Do you still have this car? How it been from a maintenance perspective?

Bro please tell me something. The buttons to the left of the steering wheel. U have 360 camera then night vision but what is the next button for? The far right. I cant find anywhere what that button does.

How many miles you have on it now I got a few questions for you buddy

My fave is w221

PLEASE TO ANYBODY READING THIS. IF YOU BUYING OR BOUGHT THIS CAR GET IT UNDER A MERCEDES WARRANTY AND EXTEND THAT SHIT. DO NOT BUY IT TO FLEX BC THIS SHIT WILL FLEX YOUR POCKETS UNTIL IT CANT ANYMORE. The amount of problems you will see with any used S class from 2014-2020 are crazy high to fix. Wonderful car with nightmare issues that will come up.

The W140 was anything but a simple as stated in this video...I owned a 1992( bought in 1998) and bought an extended warranty..THANK GOODNESS $20K worth of warranty repairs done at the Mercedes dealer on that car and that was over 20 years ago

My best Mercedes-Benz specialist shop just called the W222 S-Class his most coveted model…and the W223 is already here..! I bought a gorgeous low-mileage S550 4Matic CPO in October 2021 and promptly drove it from Central Wisconsin to Hilton Head, SC for a National Mercedes Club convention… Today…you could not wrestle this amazing vehicle out of my dead hands…and I already have standing offers to purchase..! Yes…the W222 S-Class really was ‘The Best or Nothing’…FIGHT ME…NOT FOR SALE!! I love her so hard and so deep! The W223 has a long row to hoe…we shall see…

Optioned out

I see the market for these 2014-2017 S 550 cars are starting to come back to the normal $38k-50k range depending on mileage. Im considering trading in my 2020 392 Scatpack Charger for one of these. How has the maintainence been since you got this car over a year ago?

If he paid sub $40K for this, with under 60K miles, it was a pretty good deal I WOULD NOT be interested in one of these without a warranty though The sub problem to that would be that a good warranty for this would be thousands of dollars

Haven't watched a second of this but the description says this has 549 hp and a ZF transmission. After being posted for 2 years. What am I supposed to think about that?

My neighbor has an 2014 S550 he’d sell me. 42k miles. Asking $32,000. Clean clean clean. Not sure if that’s a great deal or not

Man you ⏸ pause for like 7second when you played Pooh shiesty🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Pooh Shiesty 😂😂

most times if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. But who knows could be legit. Due diligence is paramount!!!

How many miles

Do you for sale this car bedroom lights

7:11 car has 40% fuel 14:34 only 35% now?? how much did just idling waste??

very confused, they were 120k how are they 40k now???

Did it say 190 degrees

They only Mercedes I should have bought was the W123 SD300 or even the 240D, manual transmission, manual everything. Rest was junk... ok I am exaggerating. Back then it would have cost 1 year pay, but would have lasted a lifetime. The only electronics was the Blaupunkt with transistors that are still around. Mechanical locks and windows. These days, I am better off buying a Lexus, Cadillac, Lincoln for that kind of ride. Used Mercedes with no warranty? Scary!

Please provide me with practical guide on how I can get a good buy shipped to me in Nigeria.

No ZF transmission seen here… leave those to the BMW guys! This is an in-house 7G-Tronic transmission

No way after taxes you picked this thing up for less then 40k unless it’s got high milage or something

How many miles on this car?

Do not buy a benz without a warranty people. It will destroy your pockets without it.

That engine has 449 hp not 549. I hope you purchased an extended warranty, otherwise you'll be spending tens of thousands of dollars in repair bills over the next 5-10 years. I've been an S-class owner for 20 years and the maintenance is too high on these newer models. I'm switching to electric now.

Nice classy car, but that sweatshirt not so much.

Under 40k shit what state is he in CuZ a lot more in Boston

I was gonna buy a 2016 s class for $33,000, with 32,300 miles no warranty, but after reading these comments I changed my mind, think I’ll settle for a nice Honda Nissan or Toyota.

Why the Mercedes Benz S550 Is the Best Car Under $40,000...When it's working. Mercedes builds these cars to last (mostly) through a 3 year lease. Even then, they're not especially reliable. Off warranty, the maintenance and parts cost is astronomical, as multiple systems are engineered to fail within 5 years. If you can get a full warranty on one, than you can consider it, but it's a big risk. Off warranty, than no way. There's a reason that they depreciate 90% in 3 years.

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Stay the f away from the m278 powered S550. This engine reliability is terrible compare to the previous NA version as well the next 4.0T version. Spend several thousands more and get a 2018 S450 or S560. Let the early S550 blow up and rot.

Nope, sorry. I beg to differ; a used S550 is not the best used luxury car to buy under $40000. A '15 S class has no warranty left, and as everyone reading this probably knows, is very expensive to fix and maintain (as are all luxury cars these days). There's no way I would buy a car with that level of technology without a warranty. Because they didn't listen to their guidance counselor in high school who recommended attending medical or law school or getting an electronic engineering degree instead of one in art history, environmental studies, or teaching, the reason people buy used luxury cars is to save money. Just as an example, when the A.S.S. (Active Suspension System) on your 7 year old S550 takes a crap (and it will), you're looking at almost 5 large to replace the shocks, control module, and compresser. That's not my idea of saving money. I bought a Certified Pre-owned 2018 Genesis G90 AWD 3.3 liter twin turbo engine in May of 2021. You Merc fanatics may disagree, but for me the G90 is 85% of the car that an S Class is at 50% of the price. Yes, it's a glorified Hyundai, it only has 365 h.p./ 376 ft. lbs. of torque versus the 550's 449 h.p./516 ft. lbs., and it doesn't message my sacroiliac, spritz perfume at my nose, allow my eyes to see a mile ahead in the dead of night, or let me electronically adjust the degree of sunroof shade, but it's still a very nice ride, and my bank account tells me I made a good decision. The list price of the 2018 G90 was $71850, but I bought it 3 years old and with 24,000 miles for $37300 just before used car prices went bat-shit crazy. The real salsa on the enchilada is Genesis's 5 years/60,000 mile bumper-to-bumper, and 10 year/100,000 mile powertrain warranties. My car had 24 months and 36 k miles of bumper-to-bumper warranty remaining when I bought it, but the CPO designation extends that warranty 12 months and 15,000 miles for a total of 72 months/ 75000 miles. And then don't forget the Genesis powertrain warranty. It's 10 years/100000 miles for the original owner, but is reduced to 5 years/ 60000 miles for subsequent owners. However, the CPO designation extends the powertrain warranty back to the original 10 yrs/10 k miles for the second owner. So I bought a 3 year old car with 36 months and 51 thousand miles of B2B warranty, and 64 months, and 76,000 miles of powertrain warranty remaining, almost as much as Mercedes' original owner warranty (48 months/50,000 miles for both bumper-to-bumper and powertrain). So if you want to drive like a pasha but have a serf's budget, a CPO Genesis is the way to go.

Yeah best car under $40k with maintenance around $30k 😂😂

Why do you think these cars depreciate so fast? Because it has a history of after 30,000 miles things start to break. They're expensive to fix and expensive to maintain. The prices for parts for this car are insane. Friend of mine hit a pothole and cracked the wheel. $2,000 to replace. He also had an electrical piece go out, 5 grand for part and install! Stay away from this car at all cost!

If you buy a $100,000 Mercedes S class for $40,000, chances are you were going to end up spending $60,000 fixing it up.

Dude stop misleading ppl. It needs another $50k spare for the 💯 certain repairs. You are either out of your mind or just getting paid for misleading ppl.