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Where have you been? US prices are a great bargain, both because MB considers it a strategic imperative to do well here, and because of the high taxes on cars in the rest of the world. An S65 is 148,000 pounds in the UK, which is almost $300,000. All foreign car producers have been eating quite a lot of profit with the fall of the dollar. They have not raised prices to account for it, which makes our bargains even better.
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That answer is wrong.
The British have RIDICULOUS prices on new cars due to right hand drive cars having to be made, and obscene taxes. That's why there is such a huge market of "grey market" imported cars there.
Benz makes it's cars in Germany paying suppliers and workers in Euros. The price of the British pound means nothing.
That said, the new car market here is very important, and manufacturers will take a slimmer margin here to have a bigger market share.
The British have RIDICULOUS prices on new cars due to right hand drive cars having to be made, and obscene taxes. That's why there is such a huge market of "grey market" imported cars there.
Benz makes it's cars in Germany paying suppliers and workers in Euros. The price of the British pound means nothing.
That said, the new car market here is very important, and manufacturers will take a slimmer margin here to have a bigger market share.
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That answer is wrong.
The British have RIDICULOUS prices on new cars due to right hand drive cars having to be made, and obscene taxes. That's why there is such a huge market of "grey market" imported cars there.
Benz makes it's cars in Germany paying suppliers and workers in Euros. The price of the British pound means nothing.
That said, the new car market here is very important, and manufacturers will take a slimmer margin here to have a bigger market share.
The British have RIDICULOUS prices on new cars due to right hand drive cars having to be made, and obscene taxes. That's why there is such a huge market of "grey market" imported cars there.
Benz makes it's cars in Germany paying suppliers and workers in Euros. The price of the British pound means nothing.
That said, the new car market here is very important, and manufacturers will take a slimmer margin here to have a bigger market share.
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Where have you been? US prices are a great bargain, both because MB considers it a strategic imperative to do well here, and because of the high taxes on cars in the rest of the world. An S65 is 148,000 pounds in the UK, which is almost $300,000. All foreign car producers have been eating quite a lot of profit with the fall of the dollar. They have not raised prices to account for it, which makes our bargains even better.
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Yikes.... According to Google
1 British pound = 2.0627 U.S. dollars
$113,000???
That has to be wrong.
Well for me, even the 70k grand I've heard would be too much any way, never mind over 100k. lol
1 British pound = 2.0627 U.S. dollars
$113,000???
That has to be wrong.
Well for me, even the 70k grand I've heard would be too much any way, never mind over 100k. lol
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It doesn't work that way. Car prices isn't a striaght conversion like you have there.
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https://mbworld.org/forums/s-class-w221/201100-s-class-lwb.html
The point is that all cars cost a lot more in Europe because of the taxes. You can't project our price from the 55,000 pounds / $113,000 price tag in England. Europeans are very jealous of our car prices.
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They don't use euros in the UK. An S65 is 148,000 pounds. That's $300,000. Every country is different. In Denmark, an S65 is 4.647 million kroner, or $850,000.
https://mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=201100
The point is that all cars cost a lot more in Europe because of the taxes. You can't project our price from the 55,000 pounds / $113,000 price tag in England. Europeans are very jealous of our car prices.
https://mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=201100
The point is that all cars cost a lot more in Europe because of the taxes. You can't project our price from the 55,000 pounds / $113,000 price tag in England. Europeans are very jealous of our car prices.
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They don't use euros in the UK. An S65 is 148,000 pounds. That's $300,000. Every country is different. In Denmark, an S65 is 4.647 million kroner, or $850,000.
https://mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=201100
The point is that all cars cost a lot more in Europe because of the taxes. You can't project our price from the 55,000 pounds / $113,000 price tag in England. Europeans are very jealous of our car prices.
https://mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=201100
The point is that all cars cost a lot more in Europe because of the taxes. You can't project our price from the 55,000 pounds / $113,000 price tag in England. Europeans are very jealous of our car prices.
My 02......
It's the taxes and also the European goverments issue a tarrif on the car based on the motor you purchase. They want to push the consumer onto fuel efficient cars and trucks. that is why when you travel to overseas you will see mostly diesels.
Last year I sent overseas a jeep grand cherokee with the 6 cylinder motor. I was charged taxes for cost of the suv and then I was taxed for the size of the motor. After all my expenses of aquiring the suv here, having it shipped and having it modified for Euro specs. I still came ahead the game. The same suv in Europe with the same options was still around a 30k difference. We are so lucky
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Read the article... the price is in British pounds.
a pounds to dollar conversion is not applicable in this case anyway because like others have said, US pricing is different from the factory and then you add our/their government tariffs, taxes etc.
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'05 SL 55 Black/Black w/mods from Eurocharged/Kleemann/BuckheadImports
Kleemann S/C, LSD, Renntech exhaust & CF Airbox anyone?
So who will be the first to deck their new C63 out with Kleemann Supercharger & LSD, Renntech ECU/TCU, Carbon Fiber Airbox, forged lighter and wider wheels, tires, exhaust, etc.?
I'm guessing that would put it at around 700 HP and enough to destroy any M3/M5/M6/RS4 and probably even take the all-new RS6 (650 HP twin-turbo V-10?, if chipped or just modified a little though it might be out of range with over 700 easily) coming next year or so.
exciting stuff
I'm guessing that would put it at around 700 HP and enough to destroy any M3/M5/M6/RS4 and probably even take the all-new RS6 (650 HP twin-turbo V-10?, if chipped or just modified a little though it might be out of range with over 700 easily) coming next year or so.
exciting stuff
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