CTE55AMG

Anyone know this car?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/?cmd=...T#ht_842wt_948

nicobaires

Don't know anything about it but it looks tasty..

grane

The ad says it's "one of a kind."

Peter_02AMG

You can buy a really nice W211 E55 for that price.

emoving

I usually look at the whole picture and the background is in question. I would expect a car like this to reside in a more upperscale neighborhood. JMO Looks nice though but as stated, would rather have a 211 for cheaper. This reminds me of the crack smoking E39 M5 guys.

maxwerks

THats exactly the problem that I am having . I have most of the Kleemann Parts which I never got around installing on my car , according to Kleemann , they dont have anyone they trust to instal the SC in my area ... so it is very attractive to just swap with a car that has it all already ( even though that one has the Roots type not the older twin screw ) , it looks like the conversion was done by Kleemann ) ...but it is still hard to justify the price compared to a W211 ....As Peter said ! Peter I should have bought your car !

maxwerks

Thats because the Techtite grey is more rare, and a W210 with a K8 package is pretty much an all out Kleemann . According to the owner , he thinks that Kleemann used KW coilovers ... which is surprising , didnt they have their own springs/shocks for our cars ?

CharlyE500

Its rare not only Kleemann upgrade and color, it has only 29K miles ! Its very hard to justify the price on this car. Personally I don't think it worth more than $22K since aftermarket upgrade without warranty. If something goes wrong this car, i wonder who knows how to fix it......

maxwerks

Charly , as you said , yes color , Kleemann K8 and mileage ...yet its hard to bring myself to buy it compared to a W211 ...it is very hard putting a price on a car like that ! I am tempted though , I just cant have it be a garage queen, My E55 is a daily driver now , and my wife will kill me if I said I want two E55s !

CharlyE500

Trust me, been there fighting with wife and I got my W210 E55. Wife try to make me sell one of them but not yet. The biggest concern I have about this E55 is how the upgrade are installed and what if something really goes wrong, not so many people know how to fix it. However, if you get W211 E55, most of Mercedes shop know how to fix it. For $30K you sure can find a very clean 05+ E55K As for me, I love the W210 E55, if you ask me to sell one of them, I will sell the W211. The W210 is much more classic and feel more quiet (IMO) W210 is a perfect car for daily drive.

tsquare

I wish the seller was closer to my home, I would love to take this car for a test drive

maxwerks

Any member in San Antonio willing to check this car out for us ?

cudaized

...and to take it out for a spirited test drive?!?!

Fabio D

Amazing car! +580bhp :S

Fabio Daniel

ABALONE

Even though i'm in Sweden and have no chance to know anything about this car, i actually might

Brandon at Kleemann USA told me about a car 2 years ago when i was about to buy my Kleemann S/C kit.

It was a Doctor owned E55 W210 with MX420 Autorotor SC system from the old days. 11 psi of boost on lowered CR engine, headers, cams, ECU tune, triple radiator IC system, custom ported & flowed heads, thermal coated internal engine parts etc.

And if you look at the pulley (silver) on the engine picture in the Ebay ad, you can see that it's a pulley that they used on the old Swedish Autorotor Twin-screw kits before Kleemann went Eaton MP112 S/C. The pulley on the Kleemann Eaton kits are black and have a "lip" between where the belt is running.

Even though he states it's a roots style S/C, my guess is that this is the car Brandon where talking about He might have just copyed info from the Kleemann website thats out there now.

// Magnus

Schweinhund

You didn't buy it!

Schweinhund

If this car is reliable, I submit to you it is a far better choice than any W211. More power, more reliable, and rare. Of course for $10K more you can approach a used CL 65 AMG BiTurbo.

JamE55

If that's the case then mine is one of a kind too!

And the full coil over suspension part made me think.

maxwerks

Supposedly there is agreement for its sale at $29K .. at least thats what I was told . I keep thinking of that car but I just cant bring myself to go that high. !!!

CTE55AMG

I really doubt that. I traded a few notes with the seller when the auction had less than 1 hour left and he said he had some offers in the $25k range, so would not accept less than $25k. I have thought about this car as well, and I would be comfortable at about $21k or maybe $22k maximum.

Nice car, but you can buy a perfect 2002 with under 50k miles for $15-17k.

CharlyE500

+1 the value should be around $20k to $22k.

blackbenzz

I can guarantee you that car didn't make 585whp

JamE55

Where have you been playa? UGR?

Aufretch55

Fo sho!

blackbenzz

Just chilin. No I got a 211 E55 but its time to get rid of that and move on to bigger and better things