Why not? Neither car is going to be cheap to maintain once the warranty is gone and the new S is built much better than the W220 was. Every car in this class now has a nightmare of electronic systems that will be very expensive to fix once they go bad and they will at some point, even in a Lexus. I'd rather have the Benz and enjoy the look, drive and feel for those 15 years than the LS because of its projected this and that.

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