I would like to know the same. I think this car is going to be incredible. Are you doing the 53 for sure?

There have been hundreds of them in the port of Atlanta and Long Beach just sitting. There is a recall on the front passenger seat due to the baby seat sensor not being calibrated correctly. It’s also assumed there is some kind of emission issue keeping the car from being formally accepted by DOT. MB is playing it’s cards close to the vest, but I’m told until DOT allows the cars to be “approved” they can’t enter the country other than some sample vehicles scattered around being used for training that are unregistered and allowed in under a rule in the import laws that allow some of these to enter in the same way some cars can come in for trade shows and stuff. In any case, MB seems to have thought they’d get the DOT approval last week, but that didn’t happen. I guess at this point a lot of paper is shuffling around trying to get the car approved for the US market while they stack up at the ports waiting to get in to dealers.

You can still build it using the DOG. I built mine back at the end of May using the DOG. The base price is unknown, but most of the options are priced in the DOG. My build worked and the order was placed and all is good. The DOG is very accurate and I just built mine on a spreadsheet and gave it to the logistics ordering coordinator at my dealership and a few days later I got a PO and a manufacturing slot. I think the base 53 will be right at $100K plus whatever DOG listed options you want to add - and the DOG options are mostly priced and accurate. Sure, the online build tool isen’t there, but building it using the DOG is pretty easy.

Btw, one more little fun tool. I used chrome with google translate built in and went to the German mb site where you can build the car, see the finishes and read about all the options. There is a UK website too all in English as well as Australian, but lots of options in the Americana market are not offered on the Australian and UK versions. German website is the closest in available options to the DOG so using google translate it worked pretty well Building the car and understanding all the options. I then built the car on a spreadsheet after that with all the options and qualifiers and pricing I’m the DOG and my dealer ordered it from that spreadsheet. I did some price conversions from the international CLS websites and I’m pretty sure the base 53 will be $100k or so. The worldwide CLS models are not optioned like the US CLS models so you can’t really price convert the non-US model pricing to get a US price. Math does not convert easily given the engine, trim and standard feature differences between the different models of the CLS around the world already released and being sold.

just went by dealer in Richmond. CLS 53 AMG pricing comes in at 79990 base msrp