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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 04:18 AM
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Why no Silver?

I am today in the process of finalizing the options for my brother's CLE53 AMG Cabriolet. Production is due to start August.
For the life of me, I have no idea why no Silver paint is offered. Can someone shed some light on this?

Mercedes AMG, no Silver paint???? Am I missing something here?
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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Ahmed
I am today in the process of finalizing the options for my brother's CLE53 AMG Cabriolet. Production is due to start August.
For the life of me, I have no idea why no Silver paint is offered. Can someone shed some light on this?

Mercedes AMG, no Silver paint???? Am I missing something here?
So high tech silver is not present? Maybe it is called something else without the name silver but actually a silver colour and high tech silver.
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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 07:04 AM
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Surprising because Selenite is an established MB color over the years. GT and SL are available in several silvers.
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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 07:43 AM
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Nope, no silver paint at all here.



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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Ahmed
Nope, no silver paint at all here.


Oh um, strange, I mean silver is a classy MB colour I guess they reserved it for the luxury oriented regular MB models? Does the non 53 models also not have silver as an option?
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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 09:32 AM
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CLE300 and CLE450 are available in Cirrus Silver metallic for both coupe and cab.

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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by chassis
CLE300 and CLE450 are available in Cirrus Silver metallic for both coupe and cab.
So only the 53 doesn't then maybe the classy colour on non sporty car thinking has a tiny bit truth to it however minute.
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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 10:19 AM
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I too was disappointed that silver was not offered on the CLE53. I would have ordered the CLE in Iridium Silver Metallic, the color of my previous MB’s. I chose Obsidian Black with the Power Red/Black interior and am very happy with the choice. It is much harder to keep the black car clean, but when it is, it’s a beautiful color.

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I decided to go for solid black with Leather macchiato beige / black interior and Black open-pore aluminium lines wood trim.



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Originally Posted by Ahmed
I decided to go for solid black with Leather macchiato beige / black interior and Black open-pore aluminium lines wood trim.


There are way more interior options in Bahrain than in the United States. In the US we have 3 standard options and two that i've seen but aren't listed but able to be ordered.
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To be honest, I wasn't really happy either with the paint color options for the CLE 53, which is the main reason why it took me a few months before deciding to order one. I ended up settling for obsidian black, but my preferred options would've been colors available on the previous C coupe and E coupe: cavansite blue, graphite gray, emerald green or even rubelite red.

It's crazy considering the non-AMG CLE and higher end AMGs (SL, GT...) have more options. Even the competition from Audi and BMW offer individual color options (for a hefty price) on most if not all of their models.
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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by DV8Cellars
There are way more interior options in Bahrain than in the United States. In the US we have 3 standard options and two that i've seen but aren't listed but able to be ordered.
Are those MANUFAKTUR (+?) options? Do you think us will offer ot on the CLE? I seen it offered on the S class

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Originally Posted by BenzC400
I too was disappointed that silver was not offered on the CLE53. I would have ordered the CLE in Iridium Silver Metallic, the color of my previous MB’s. I chose Obsidian Black with the Power Red/Black interior and am very happy with the choice. It is much harder to keep the black car clean, but when it is, it’s a beautiful color.
Yes that colour is the most beautiful when clean but it only takes like a few minutes until it is dirty again : (
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Yes that colour is the most beautiful when clean but it only takes like a few minutes until it is dirty again : (
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I know! Considering that silver is the traditional international racing color of the German nation, it is bizarre.
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