Caleb Matthew

Considering selling my 2000 E55. This is the Designo Silver edition. The first year of the MB Designo program in the USA was 2000. I have never seen another 2000 E55 Designo Silver for sale on this forum or on any car sell sites on the Internet such as Autotrader. It just may be the only one produced in 2000 as the Designo Edition added upward to $6k to the already high E-55 MSRP. My car was leased on January 13, 2000, by Hoehn MB in Carlsbad, CA, to a family living in Escondido. CA. At the end of the lease, it had 48,587 miles. It was then sold as a CPO car by Hoehn MB to a pilot living in Hermosa Beach, CA. He was going through a divorce when I bought it from him on January 7, 2006, with 57,396 miles. The car now has 120,431 miles. I obtained all the maintenance/service records (date of service, mileage and what was done) from Hoehn MB and I have all the records since I purchased the car.

If you are not aware, the Designo Editions had to be special ordered and were limited by MB to 250-500 examples per Class. So of all the E Class cars built in 2000, there were no more than 500 with the Designo option worldwide. Another limiting factor was the Designo Silver being only optioned for the E Class and the S Class. I once asked MB AMG in Germany how many 2000 E-55 Designo Silver cars were built and was told they do not have that information. I can only venture this is a rare car among the produced E55s. As you may know, only 500 E55 model year 2000 examples were imported to the USA. From 1999 to 2002, the end of the W210 production, only around 12,000 E-55s were built for worldwide consumption.

The Designo Silver Edition has a dark green/charcoal interior with natural maple wood. The green floor mats with the word Designo are like new. When I bought the car it had MB rubber floor mats in place and the seller gave me the original floor mats. The Designo's silver paint process used more solvents than normal and the unique paint was baked with changing temperature. This process was more expensive, but it lifted the paint to create a great shine. My car has the original paint in very good condition.

I have the original 2000 MB sales brochure which covers the E55 and the Designo Edition. I have folders full of information and copies of car magazines featuring articles on the E55. This car is an original unmolested example of the W210 E55. So what is it worth? Obviously, only what someone is willing to pay for it. I am now retired and we bought an RV, so selling three cars to buy a vehicle we can pull with the RV. Interested, let me know.

cm60k

Waaaooo, soooooo NICE..

-;ZAYED;-

CharlyE500

Which part of SoCal are you located ?

Caleb Matthew

Murrieta area.

paulunm

johnchalkias

Strigoi

Don't post your number like that you dumb dumb. Send them a PM with your info instead.

NAFT1

Nice. That matches the interior of my ML.

ZANE55