MBZFAN55

Can someone from Hong Kong answer this for me ?

With not much else to do this evening, I visited the Hong Kong Mercedes Benz website, and used the configurator to price up a new w221 S500. The HKD prices looked fairly USD as long as you drop off the last digit, ex: base price car HKD 839,000, I figure could be rougly US $83,900. Anyway, all was fine until I got to FRT (tax). Am I reading this wrong, or is your tax about 80%? The tax is approx. $77,000 US ?????

Car Configurator
Class Model Your Model Paint and Upholstery Interior Options Exterior Options View Summary

S 500 L

Base Price**: HKD 839,000 Total Options: HKD 107,500
Retail Price: HKD 946,500 Monthly Payment: HKD 86,763

Summary
Paint:
Iridium Silver Metallic No Charge
Upholstery:
Leather, Basalt Grey / Black No Charge
Exterior Options:
AMG-styling package HKD 52,000
DISTRONIC autonomous intelligent cruise control HKD 17,500
Night view assist HKD 17,000
Panorama-electric sunroof, glass version HKD 11,500
Reversing camera HKD 9,500

Option Total: HKD 107,500
Base Price**: HKD 839,000
FRT Tax: HKD 766,500 <------------ ??????
Configuration Price: HKD 1,713,000

Mercedes-Benz China Ltd, 2005
Car Configurator

** Base Price is the retail price before tax.
Actual vehicle may differ slightly from photo, features and selling price are subject to official contract.

BlackSL

accessories such as your panoramic roof is 100% tax.
ie. AMG styling kit with exhaust is HKD52,000. After tax, HKD14,000.

our car is HKD1,489,000 standard S500L. We added the rear parking camera and something else can't remember. So grand price I'm thinking low HKD1,500k.

The only way to get out of this is to add the accessories after 6months of owning the car. So items such as AMG kit can be added, but items that require installation (COMMAND, PANO roof) at the factory can't escape the 100% tax.

Lov2xlr8

so i guess every time someone buys a new benz there is someone in the government that gets a gift(ie: a new benz).lol

Renelsisc

yup...

thats right. For every car you buy in HK, you can buy two of them, technically.

BruNo

USA has the cheapest auto MSRPs in the world!!! a C class in asia would probably buy a low spec S class in the US.

IdriveFast

and its not just HK, Singapore, Taiwan, China, pretty much all asian countries there is a tax that almost equals 100%.

Even an S350 is an 150,000 USD car in taiwan

ruykava

dude, in malaysia the tax is f-ing 200%! the S350, imported (we make them here as well), is a USD$230k car. bloody hell.

timoc42

and gas prices in Asia is generally more expensive that US too!!

so, people in the US should stop compaining about gas prices!!!

WillyWolo

I saw in Time a few days ago that the US pricing for the S500 (or is it the S550 in US?) will be $115,000, is that true?

derrick_lui

When are people picking up their new S classeS?

We are getting ours in March 2006, according to Zung Fu

pamongkol

I think that the worst is thailand, their tax is 350% for car with engin more than 2.5 litter!!! right now the new s 350 is going to be 11 million bath or $270,000

MBZFAN55

Maybe in Canadian dollars.

BlackSL

We are waiting for the 3rd shipment. We chose to forgo the first two in case there are problems with the new S-Class, hoping that it will be rectified for the 3rd shipment :P

That means around May/June 06. Zung Fu also took in our old S-CLass (grey import) at a good price!