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blacklab

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  1. Have very similar car preferences as you. Over the last 20 years have driven only tahoes, mercedes sedans and toyota trucks.

    Rather than getting a nice newer truck or car I went with older both.

    I have a 2012 FJ Cruiser for pulling the boat, camping, beach, lake, taking the dogs, home depot and short trips. I do like the new land cruisers and broncos, and may get one after this dies. Has 144k miles and now that I have the other car am only putting 5k miles a year, so it should last for a while. 

    I have a 2018 e300 for longer trips. Yes maintenance can cost a lot, but compared to buying a newer one I could spend $3k in repairs for the next 10 years and still come out ahead of buying a new one. Mine has 82k miles and I got it for $17k, new ones are $50k. This is the 5th E I've had. They do start falling apart around 120k miles, but have had good experiences from 50-120k. I found a oil change place that lets you bring your oil and filter and does the change for $60, saving a few hundred over the dealer or nice shop. I'd do it myself but it's a huge pain to remove the skid plates. 

    There's something about Mercedes sedans that just seems better than any other car. I think @TwiceHorn described it as "design aesthetics" Everything just seems to be in the right place, seats are comfortable and better adjusting than any other, and it's great on the highway.

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  2. In the late 90's I worked at Motorola Fab off of William Cannon/290/71.

    I turned right off 290/71 on to William Cannon one morning around 6am and as I was passing through the wooded area the creek runs through heard a thud and figured I hit a deer. I stopped and looked at the front of my truck and saw nothing. As I was walking back to get into the truck I saw the deer lying in the road and noticed the dent in my door. He looked at me and took off into the woods. A couple seconds later a mountain lion came out of the woods and crossed the road chasing after the deer.  

    Told the story to the guy I was taking over for expecting him to ask me if I was drinking or something, instead he said yep, sounds right. He lived not far from there and had seen the mountain lion walking on his fence multiple times. A few weeks later there was a story in the statesman about the rumor of a big cat living in south Austin. Hundreds of people wrote in saying they had seen it. 

     

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