Jeff Weiss

I was just viewing a forum on C55's, and one poster stated he had 1 of 100 left in the US. Another poster said only 95ish left. That would mean that of the 1750ish cars imported, that 1650-1655 of them are gone? I'm struggling to believe that... Anyone have any insight?

LukasBMW

I want to say that there were 1500 or so 2005's and 500 or so 2006 cars that ended up in the USA.

I'd guess that perhaps maybe only 95-100 are left of a certain color, but no way just 95-100 are left total (even of the 2006 year).

I do think low mileage C55's and rare color C55's will take off in price soon.

jfmiii

I’ve read there were 1299 2005s and 451 2006s sold in the US. Would be interesting to know how many are still left. There are only 3 for sale nationwide on auto trader but they come up for sale on BAT, Cars and Bids and MB Market not infrequently. The cars are rising in value and not too long ago, they were much cheaper. Guessing a lot were bought cheap by younger kids and wrecked or totaled.

Jeff Weiss

There were 1750 in total imported by Benz. 1299 in 2005 and 451 in 2006. 2006 is the real rare one!

kjb55

Timely BaT Auction. 2006, rare color, relatively low miles in the world of C55s and okay condition.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...nz-c55-amg-24/

BBC55

This is an interesting question, but there may be no available way to answer it.
Given that online services can give you info about a vehicle only from the state + license, I at first posited a common database of all state registrations. If that is available, it would be easy to search nationwide for any type.
However, it is far more likely that the "car value" sites pass your query to the state data systems and get one answer for one vehicle. Security and update problems make the big database unworkable.
So.... crap. Please prove me wrong.

BTW, the "100 left" probably comes from a British source; they are fading there.

amgen

1.750 in total was imported to North America (don´t forget your Canadian friends!)

Specific figures regarding Canada:
W203 C55s:
2005 = 68 units sold
2006 = 23 units sold
2007 = 3 units sold.

Total number of C55 AMG´s built (W/S203): 4.616

Number of Sedans built: 4.021 between May 2004 and February 2007
Number of Wagons built: 595 between May 2004 and May 2007

Number of imported Sedans to North America: 1.750 in 2005 and 2006

chicago_fog

Agreed. I've looked into this question before and there's a way to search the registered cars in the UK and the number was around 100 for C55s. I would love to know the number in the US.

jfmiii

This was an interesting auction. Low miles and "rare" color should have brought some cash. It also last sold at $25k on BaT. However, interior looked a bit rough. Think what killed this though was that the former BaT buyer chimed in with mods he had done to this car prior to selling it to its current owner and posted a link to his Instagram. Let's just say that if anyone looked at the IG page, they would have been likely to pass on the car.