That is a very nice car, and I like the growl of the exhaust. It has a very nice deep tone to it.
You didn't want one before this post? What's wrong with you?Great post but now I really want a 550. You know how much this post of yours is going to cost me?????
Well, a rough guess would be $89,500 .....Great post but now I really want a 550. You know how much this post of yours is going to cost me?????
Actually I doubt it. It was just the one 550 ad that I had on hand in my Inbox which was eazy to copy and paste. Honesty it is not a car I would touch. Too much bad karma.
This is the very car that was featured in the "Can you afford $10.27 per mile?" article that Michael Sheehan published in FLQ #5. It's a famous article trying to shed light on 550 ownership costs but in my opinion (and quite a few (ex-) 550 owners) it seems to concern a particularly bad example. I agree that it looks very nice, but probably best to stay away.
I do hear it in the video, my question was do you know what that noise actually is?
I have been in Florida 4/5 weekends recently, but only 2 of those involved actually driving the car (the others it was in the shop), however that's done for now, as I have to go back to college for the spring, so won't be back around till the summer... Hopefully dad will have all the other minor issues sorted by then!
I don't know exactly what it is, but I know what it does (help warm up the engine), and I am confident that if you don't drive until it has finished doing its thing, it will last longer without failure. I have spent a fair amount of cash on my car repairing small stuff, and it becomes annoying considering that not only you get to pay but you are deprived of your great car while they troubleshoot, and wait for parts. So one of the things I focus on is letting it warm up before driving. But maybe you can drive it outright and nothing will happen to the system, you never know.
This is done to warm the cats up. They do not function properly until they are warm.
