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Old 09-14-2011, 11:52 PM
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Does anyone have a guess at what percentage of E350s are ordered with leather interiors?
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Note that on the leather seating option the pattern runs lengthwise to the car. (Does not have to be this exact color).
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Does anyone have a guess at what percentage of E350s are ordered with leather interiors?
If you mean ordered for dealer inventory, it's very few. If you check the inventory of local dealers, you will find it's probably well over 90% MB Tex, Sport and P1.

Dealers around here lease most of their cars.
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I'd say less than 10% are real Leather. Maybe even less than 5%.
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Canada is 75% ARTICO, 25% leather on E350 sedan. Wagons tend to skew a bit higher on leather (higher net worth customers). For 2012, leather will be standard on E350s.
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Originally Posted by YYZ-E55
Canada is 75% ARTICO, 25% leather on E350 sedan. Wagons tend to skew a bit higher on leather (higher net worth customers). For 2012, leather will be standard on E350s.
YYZ - any idea when the 2012s will be available to build on the MB Canada website?
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YYZ - any idea when the 2012s will be available to build on the MB Canada website?
Should be within the next few weeks. 2012 production started this month; cars will be arriving shortly.
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Originally Posted by YYZ-E55
Should be within the next few weeks. 2012 production started this month; cars will be arriving shortly.
is there a difference in look?
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is there a difference in look?
Nothing major. LEDs change (no more hockey sticks), LED license plate bulbs.
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Originally Posted by YYZ-E55
Nothing major. LEDs change (no more hockey sticks), LED license plate bulbs.
I like LED license plates. Standard leather on E350s...lucky. It's a $1600 option in the U.S. MY2011 and prior E350s.
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I couldn't spend like that and not get leather....as far as led plate lights, I had to add those to my 550, as I am tomorrow to my 62.....
the side mirror lights would also be very nice led-ed......
wouldn't all agree?
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Originally Posted by YYZ-E55
Nothing major. LEDs change (no more hockey sticks), LED license plate bulbs.
Yea, I like the straight LED over the hockey stick. Would be nice if I can modify mine.
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Yea, I like the straight LED over the hockey stick. Would be nice if I can modify mine.
Should be an easy (though perhaps costly) swap. The bumper design is unchanged.
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Originally Posted by mafialink
is there a difference in look?
To the best of my knowledge"

Externally, the 2012 e350 will look no different than a 2011 with the Luxury package and P2....unless you look closely at the headlights because the 2011 P2 has the bi-xenons. I believe the license plate light bulbs are changed to halogen as well but of course you can do that to a 2011.

Internally, the 2012 will be identical to 2011 e350's built after (somewhere around) July 1 in the US which already include the new more colorful dash and command 4.5 with the ipod/media connections in the center console and the smaller SD slot on the dash.

The biggest change is unseen...the engines...although the BlueTec remains unchanged. There is also some incremental change to the transmission allowing the use of lighter weight fluid which supposedly increases fuel economy.

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Originally Posted by hyperion667
I couldn't spend like that and not get leather....as far as led plate lights, I had to add those to my 550, as I am tomorrow to my 62.....
the side mirror lights would also be very nice led-ed......
wouldn't all agree?
The rearview mirror lights are LED's I thought? They're amber in color but they're LED's.

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