New C43
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C43 Coupe
As a side note, I just found out that you can option Nappa leather for the c43.. Now I'm left teetering on the idea of changing my build, 5k is a hefty price though.
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As others have said, I would take that with a grain of salt. Then again, it doesn't seem too far fetched considering MB's recent track record with delays. Only way to truly find out is to contact MB corporate. I just hope the coupes are not affected.
As a side note, I just found out that you can option Nappa leather for the c43.. Now I'm left teetering on the idea of changing my build, 5k is a hefty price though.
As a side note, I just found out that you can option Nappa leather for the c43.. Now I'm left teetering on the idea of changing my build, 5k is a hefty price though.
I saw that too, but quickly decided I don't think it's worth it. But guess it depends on what you are looking for from your build, I think the diamond pattern looks more luxurious, but I'm trying to have mine more of a sporty build. Plus the extra cost is a hard to pill to swallow as my build price already spiraled out of control lol
P.S. Well and my build already in production, so no changing now anyways!
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I saw that too, but quickly decided I don't think it's worth it. But guess it depends on what you are looking for from your build, I think the diamond pattern looks more luxurious, but I'm trying to have mine more of a sporty build. Plus the extra cost is a hard to pill to swallow as my build price already spiraled out of control lol
P.S. Well and my build already in production, so no changing now anyways!
P.S. Well and my build already in production, so no changing now anyways!
Oh man, congrats buddy! The days seem to be going by so slow for me haha.
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I think I would have been tempted by this seat/interior option had it been available on the UK spec. builds, but 5K is a lot extra. I think the Bengal red is a deeper red as well which looks really nice.
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AMG C43 Coupe on order
Hi all. New member and 1st post 
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
Last edited by Bricktrix; Sep 5, 2016 at 02:23 PM.
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Hi all. New member and 1st post
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
Personally could not not get on with my 4GC! Also can't wait
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AMG C43 Coupe on order
So another BM defector eh? Certainly appears these cars are ticking the right boxes with people....think your the 4th that I know of on there who have ordered now.
Just had an email from my dealer saying he will let me know as soon as he does, but my cars a little while off leaving the factory yet.
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Hi all. New member and 1st post
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
Our's should hopefully be built this week, delivery end of the month. Defecting from a Z4 35i.
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Um...I might be depending whos asking? Yeah, ok, tis me
So another BM defector eh? Certainly appears these cars are ticking the right boxes with people....think your the 4th that I know of on there who have ordered now.
Just had an email from my dealer saying he will let me know as soon as he does, but my cars a little while off leaving the factory yet.
So another BM defector eh? Certainly appears these cars are ticking the right boxes with people....think your the 4th that I know of on there who have ordered now.
Just had an email from my dealer saying he will let me know as soon as he does, but my cars a little while off leaving the factory yet.
I have been a long time member for many years and owned BMWs for 20yrs. But like you am new here and rocking my first Merc. I was waiting on an M3 allocation then test drove C300, C450 AMG, went back to BMW drove M4 for back to back feel, decided I wanted the M4, but could never seem to pull the trigger. One boring weekend I go over to Merc dealer to see what they have, found a C63S in silver test drove it, and got infected. 
I told my CA I was not going to buy, but was mighty impressed. I came back two days later asked to work out a deal on a new Diamond White C63S Sedan.All the noise is the few overzealous fans who wouldn't admit someone else came to market with an as good or better product. I'll happily hop brands to whoever tickles my fancy. And yes I did also feel the C450 AMG was also better than the 440i or 340i too.
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C43 Coupe
Well after mashing the ship tracking page for the last few days it has finally paid off! Looks like my car is now loaded on a ship and should be landing in Halifax on Sept 19th, then I imagine hop on a rail car and make it's way to Alberta!
Pretty happy considering I was only supposed to go into production Sept 10-19. So I'm basically 2 weeks ahead of schedule give or take!
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Well after mashing the ship tracking page for the last few days it has finally paid off! Looks like my car is now loaded on a ship and should be landing in Halifax on Sept 19th, then I imagine hop on a rail car and make it's way to Alberta!
Pretty happy considering I was only supposed to go into production Sept 10-19. So I'm basically 2 weeks ahead of schedule give or take!
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C43 Coupe
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Well I should correct, he told me it was in production, then I had to bug him to give me the VIN so I could track it coming across lol... I've pretty much had to bug him for any information I've got. But imagine lots of people just order and they don't hear from them till they are ready to pick up the car. I'm a little more needy I guess when it comes to information lol
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Well I should correct, he told me it was in production, then I had to bug him to give me the VIN so I could track it coming across lol... I've pretty much had to bug him for any information I've got. But imagine lots of people just order and they don't hear from them till they are ready to pick up the car. I'm a little more needy I guess when it comes to information lol
, I've been trying to take it easy on my dealer lately, haha.I'm holding out my silence until mid-month and then I'm going to email him to ask for any updates on my build (scheduled for production in Decade 3 of this month).
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Or they get tired of dealing with an SA who does not understand how to communicate or just doesn't want to take the time (2 mins?) to check order status and (2 mins?) to send an email or text.
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Honestly I don't know why they don't just have an online tracking system that customers can check... 5 dollar item from amazon I can track every step of the way, 80 000 dollar car, can't know anything until you get a call from the dealer lol Time to update their system and get with the times.
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Hi all. New member and 1st post
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
I ordered my first ever new car as an AMG C43 Coupe....coming out of a BMW 4GC and this will also be my 1st ever Merc!
C43 Spec:
Cavansite Blue Metallic
Premium Plus Package
AMG twin-spoke wheels, 19", with mixed-size tyres
AMG matt silver glass-fibre trim / aluminium with light longitudinal-grain
leather black
Privacy Glass
AMG Performance seats
Head-up-Display (HUD)
Managed to get 12% discount
My initial order was quoting 29-10-2016 for delivery.
Now I've had a confirmed delivery date of 15th Nov for 19th collection.
This was after the dealer was able to do a "spec-ammend" to an existing order they had.
I'm still being told it may come in a week earlier??
From reading through this thread I cant work out if the dealer will yet know the vin no. or build date???
Super excited, but now realise I cant track the car (as you can with BM) unless you use the shipping company, once its been built.
Test drove the C63 and M4, but the C43 was the all round sweet spot for me.
Unfortunately, no self-service tracking for orders, like you get with BMW. I do miss that part. Need to call your SA to get status updates.
My vehicle is in production for delivery next month. Trying to get my SA to repeat that statement as often as possible, so I can guilt them into a better deal if the rumored delay materializes. Confirmed today that they've heard nothing so far.
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Audi S5, C43 arriving soon
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