I love these forums.Listen guys who buys a Mercedes brand new when they are built so well.Everyone knows cars aren't true investments.As far as value why would you expect a cl65,sl65, or even the 55 to hold any value.Your paying that price for invisibility.If you wanted to maintain value those cars shouldn't look like the standard cl500.Drive buy in a Bently which is 2ok less than the cl 65 everyone looks at the Bently.1 year later the Bently is worth 25k more and each year by about 5-10k.So pick a Bently or a used Mercedes and get some of the depreciation out without compromising a high performance luxury car.Think about it a guy buys a Infinte g35 for $45k wait 2-3 years and drive $140k cl600 for the same price.