Someone has traveled more than 370,000 kilometers in two years with a modern Mercedes. Czech crooks will fight for it.

Someone has driven more than 370,000 kilometers in two years driving a modern Mercedes, the Czech crooks will fight for it.

You have to rub your eyes three times to believe what this car has accomplished in just two years. In some ways, he seems untouched, but he’s logged more miles each month than most people do in a year or two.

At used stores, you can sometimes find cars that have a low odometer reading, but it looks like it has three times. You can even ask yourself a question openly, but the seller somehow claims that this is an honest mileage, supported by a number of irrefutable documents. You don’t have to lie, either: the condition of the car depends more on how you treat it than its mileage.

However, we have seen cars that had high mileage but looked poor, and we have seen cars with the same mileage that looked like new. The latter, however, is completely different – sometimes due to the extraordinary care taken by the owners, sometimes simply because someone has climbed so much in such a short time that the visible parts do not wear well. And the car we have here today is far from that.

It is a Mercedes-Benz E300 station wagon from the W213, more precisely the S213 type, which was first registered in May 2021 and has been in service for exactly two years. Normally, such a car should travel between 20 and 30,000 miles, but the E-Class is designed to be driven a lot, and that’s why customers often buy it. However, we dare say that the first owner of this E-Class is a radical among the radical.

Indeed, it has logged an incredible number of miles, and is the most driven two-year-old W213 Ecco on sale. We have already mentioned the figure, but if you have forgotten it, look at the picture first. The outside doesn’t suggest it’s a typical used car, but inside you can see where the car hasn’t been in a garage for two years. It’s not damaged at all though, it doesn’t have a polished steering wheel and most importantly the leather on the seats is wrinkled, it looks like a car with tens of thousands of miles under its belt. But it’s nothing.

The odometer reads 370,744 km – that’s not a typo, this car has traveled more than 370,000 km in 24 months of service, it has circled the world almost 10 times in this short time. Look at the display between the pictures three times if you don’t believe it, especially if you look at other pictures. At the mentioned age, this meant driving more than 185,000 km per year, more than 15,400 km per month, more than 730 km every working day. Over and over, over and over. It’s almost annoying, even to the eyes of a car enthusiast.

There are not many reasons to buy this car despite its condition, it is a used car that can go wrong at any time. And even the asking price of 29,950 euros, or about 710,000 Czech crowns, is not very attractive considering the mileage. But this is only the case if one knows its real history. With a mileage of 50,000 km, it is impossible to buy this E version for less than 1.25 million Czech crowns, so cheaters have almost half a million reasons to want such a car.

That’s why we show you, but it is one of the skills to go around the speedometer, especially for a kota from the Czech Republic – the history of foreign cars, especially Dutch, is not easy to trace here. The car is not even ripe for the mandatory 100 km on the clock, and with sleight of hand it is possible to go even lower. And sell it for hundreds of thousands more. Who wouldn’t believe it?

We are not encouraging anyone to do that, on the contrary, we are trying to prevent that action in the future by mentioning this car. However, we believe that this car will be recalled sooner or later, because in the current situation the seller can still confirm that the odometer has not been changed upwards. Take this as a warning, always check the history of the used car as thoroughly as possible, and do not compromise when reviewing documents. Even what seems impossible can become reality.

Source: Yildiz Auto'[email protected]

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