S 550 4MATIC - $119,500 - Release mid-October, S 63 4MATIC - $160,900 - Release mid-October, S 65 - $230,900 - Release December

 

WOH!

Expensive!

 

When will S63 Coupe non-4matic be launched?

 

There is no RWD S63 Coupe for the U.S. market.

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Wow, quite a premium. More than I expected. Sure are taking their time releasing it.

 

Wow S63 Coupe is $19K more than the S63 Sedan. I'll just wait for depreciation to hit =D

 

Those prices are way too high.

$160k for S63? (and that's unloaded probably).

The CL 63 was $30k less than that just a year ago.

$230k for the CL65 (again, unloaded) - most people would rather a bentley or ferrari or lambo at that price.

Guess we can all say all this stuff - but lets see how they sell.

 

I assume the S65, like the sedan, comes loaded.

 

65 Coupe w/essential (should have been std) options (CCB, ext&int cf, perf stg wheel, etc) is $250K

IMO, still best value of any car on planet

Let's recall some basic arithmetic/finance....

~25yr ago, S500 was ~$100K

Consider ~2%/yr inflation
What were interest rates in those times (or pre-'08 for that matter)?
How much has dollar depreciated vs DM and vs euro?
Didn't have cheap 2yr leases back then (nor were MB/BMW/P/A/L so competitive that they routinely buy one out of last 2-5 mos of any lease, so one re-leases another new car)
How many 18-40yo hedge fund traders and software engineers earned enough to casually afford a >$100K car in '90 vs today (think SV tech which didn't even exist back then; and finance was a puny industry back then, even in NYC, let alone vs finance in SV or BH today)?

Today's 65s are dramatically safer (esp braking/chassis/active&passive safety), more precise, higher perf, more useable, more exciting (esp aurally), more elegant than 500s (or any alleged supercars) of 25yrs ago....and arguably cost less in present-value dollars

On various levels, today's disposable, every 2yrs-leased new 65s are versions of flipping out of iPhones (where ironically carriers now buy one's 2yo iPhone at full $200 to incent one to "upgrade" to new Phone and new 2y contract, similar to car mfrs w/leases)....some poor sucker (w/poor credit) somewhere is paying an absurd amt for a used/decayed/obsolete 65 or iPhone....and nearly every rich dude in US needs some new respectable-brand/model commuter car and phone, commensurate to his socio-economic status, no matter how ambivalent he is re: driving/cars and/or using phones/computers

But given far more profound safety implications of cars (driving is one's riskiest daily activity; decay curves of airbags/tires/brakes, etc vs age/use are poorly understood; and one can never buy back health lost in any collision), would argue any new 65 is incredibly cheap

And if one is capital constrained, would argue far smarter to just lease new C300 (~$400/mo; even alleged poor folks on food stamps, etc these days manage to have a couple of $200/mo pets, right?) until can afford leasing new 65s

In past 15-20yrs, plenty of smart kids in finance or tech esp in SV have followed that somewhat binary approach to cars: lease a new cheap MB, etc upon graduating from college (that now-obsolete step in lucrative SV career paths) and flip it for a big AMG at end of first yr of ~80hr/wk work upon receiving first of many, to-be-larger bonus checks/equity payments...

 

Price of the S63 coupe in indeed high. My rep said pricing is still not loaded in Netstar so I don't know how much individual options cost. I am thinking same as the sedan. S63 does come with premium package as standard.

 

Some options originally priced in DOG. I agree, new ones should be same as sedan.

 

So the only option for a RWD S coupe is the 65? And at that price? I don't get their rationale for this...

 

Thats not expensive at all if you are from the UK ;p. You are still paying 30-40,000 pounds less than us for each of those.

 

What was your source for this information??

 

These cars are more in expensive in Europe due to the fact the Europe is actually a very small market for high-end models.
US prices are pre-tax versus euro prices which include the 20% VAT

 

I live in Swizerland and the fact is EVERYTHING here is more expensive. So when I see these prices I think to myself, you americans got it good!

The S500 coupe here starts at $176k

 

I am waiting to find out what my build price will be for my S63 Coupe - still sitting at port waiting for a ship to bring her to Brunswick.

$176K for 550 is way too expensive.

 

Well, the Swiss Franc is very strong against the Dollar but that is pricey nonetheless.

When I lived in Switzerland I bought an S-class there at the time; very pricey but it was actually equipped to US level ( and then some), not like the barebone configuration in Germany.