xxdioschxx

First time posting here, I’m curious to see what the estimated delivery dates are for the new W206 in the U.S.? Release date is set for spring 2022 and the dealership told me they’re looking at March or April for delivery. The car is marked as “ready” at the VPC when I last checked a week ago..

If anyone has heard differently I’d love to know!!

big_willy

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Who knows now - continued conflict in Ukraine has made an already dire supply issue much worse. Expect further delays.

Grant Hummel

The March/April timeframe seems very reasonable. Pricing has been announced, which many times is a major hangup for launch. EPA/CARB approval may be the next hurdle to jump over, but that is pure speculation on my part.

My W206 built in December in the South Africa manufacturing plant. Currently it is on a magical cruise around the world, having weaved its way from South Africa, up to the Mediterranean, back down through Suez and over to Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and now Shanghai, among other ports along the way. I'm guessing it should be bound for Long Beach, CA shortly. Point being...cars are shipping, the volumes are lower due to the semiconductor and other raw material issues, and it's taking longer than normal when they do ship.

big_willy

W206 is made is South Africa? Not germany?

Grant Hummel

Most US market W206s will be South Africa cars--similar to pre-W205 cars. The vast majority of the US market W205s were built in Vance, but with the 206 we're back to South Africa sourced vehicles. We'll likely see sporadic Bremen built cars, but those will be a rarity.

Holo

Do you think once the car officially goes on sale on Mercedes site and a lot more people want it, do you think the availability for parts would get a lot worse with added demand?

mercedesmax

Not this month for sure. We were told sometime in the 2nd quarter.
My guess is May or June.

webby87

mbusa just updated their site today to included the C Class. But no builder yet.

W205C43PFL

Good find.

xxdioschxx

Mine was also built in South Africa. It was built in October 2021 (pre-removal of the Burmeister sound system and other options) when I gave the deposit. It was shipped in December and arrived in Brunswick VPC in Jan 2022.

I just saw mbusa updated their website to show the new W206 information! Hopefully this means they’re arriving to dealerships soon. I hope its one of the first to ship out, I think waiting this long will definitely be worth the wait.

teksurv

As mentioned, previous C class cars sold in the US were built in London, South Africa. They were built every bit as well as those in Germany.

big_willy

My sales also confirmed Canadian C class also built in South Africa. I don't buy the "built every bit as well" piece. But that's globalization and the way of things. The C Class is a car for the masses and to keep selling price appealing to the masses, cost efficiencies need to be found.

W205C43PFL

Although this is a "US ONLY" thread as requested by OP, I do want to share that my local dealership in Canada said initial shipments are expected by mid March now to late March and early April. How this is relevant to what OP is asking is that Canada usually gets things later than the States so if we are getting these vehicles in late March or early April, USA should expect a sooner timeframe or a similar timeframe.

Grant Hummel

They have been building Mercedes-Benz cars here at this facility since 1958.

big_willy

I've never had a Merc built anywhere else other then Germany. This will be the first. Past Mercs were:
C Class x 2
SL550
SLK55
GTC
E Class

Grant Hummel

This will be my third. Quality on my prior two was exceptional.

LOGOSDJ

I have heard May or "late Q2" as most likely release timeline.

mercedesmax

Have training on March 11. Hopefully we get some info on the release date.

Ron P Baker

🙏

W205C43PFL

Sweet looking forward to your update.

CincyMBGuy

We had ours around 2/24. Of course the questions of when we'll see the cars came up and the best answer we could get was, "soon."

mercedesmax

We were told end of May

CincyMBGuy

I'm glad to hear something solid. Just about every 4th call I take is a question regarding the new C.

Grant Hummel

The trainings that have taken place in the Southeast and Northeast are being told "end of April/beginning of May".

W205C43PFL

Speaking of training vehicles, BenzBlogger's channel owner received theirs today: