Not for me, but I figure beyond knows about this stuff. If it was up to me I'd just tell em to buy a 200,000km pickup . . . .
A friend of a friend is looking at the 2019 Mercedes A250 4matic with Premium and Night packages. That has MSRP of about $43,500 and they have been quoted an out the door price of $47,500. There's some kind of discount in there apparently.
I was thinking if that was the price range, a VW Golf R was about the same price and probably a better value. Hell a Golf GTI is even better value and I'd suspect this person wouldn't notice the performance difference. My impression is that they aren't the type to drive at 10/10ths, but I digress . . .
What say you? What else is comparable and worth a look. Guessing out the door under $50k is a hard limit,