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Old Jul 26, 2016 | 10:34 PM
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Why so few 2013 E63's for sale but many 2012 or 2014s?

Am looking to buy a used w212 E63 and starting to search around at what the supply is of used ones from 2012 to 2014.

interesting seeing from Cars.com search that among those years, the 2013 model is most limited in used car supply (based on today search, not sure if there's any trending here..)

I guess my question is why so many 2014's for sale and so few 2013's? were the 2013 production numbers lower, or 2014 much higher? maybe none of this really matters, but just curious if any feedback as i REALLY like the 2013 model especially since it had the upgraded/split cooling vs 2012.

as of today cars.com shows this:
2012 - 36 E63's for sale
2013 - 17 E63's for sale
2014 - 31 E63's for sale
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by jvakos
Am looking to buy a used w212 E63 and starting to search around at what the supply is of used ones from 2012 to 2014.

interesting seeing from Cars.com search that among those years, the 2013 model is most limited in used car supply (based on today search, not sure if there's any trending here..)

I guess my question is why so many 2014's for sale and so few 2013's? were the 2013 production numbers lower, or 2014 much higher? maybe none of this really matters, but just curious if any feedback as i REALLY like the 2013 model especially since it had the upgraded/split cooling vs 2012.

as of today cars.com shows this:
2012 - 36 E63's for sale
2013 - 17 E63's for sale
2014 - 31 E63's for sale
Complete guess, but it's likely that's because 2013 is the last year before a major redesign. I bet 2016 sales numbers are also low compared to 2014 and 2015.
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 06:56 AM
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You do make a good point, I noticed that as well about a year ago. Maybe people are holding on to the 2013s longer than the 2012s
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 11:45 AM
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Do you really want to know why?! It's because '13 is an unlucky number! LOL

Anyway, interesting observation by the OP!
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by CliffJumper
Complete guess, but it's likely that's because 2013 is the last year before a major redesign. I bet 2016 sales numbers are also low compared to 2014 and 2015.
This.

13' was the last year before the facelift. People probably waited for the refresh 14' and 13' sales dipped.
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 12:45 PM
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This.

13' was the last year before the facelift. People probably waited for the refresh 14' and 13' sales dipped.
But the same amount of 2013 cars were likely produced and they must have ultimately been sold ... Same with all these 2016 e63's... They will be sold eventually
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 01:56 PM
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2015 was a much shorter production year that 2014. Not sure why but MB stopped taking orders on 2015 E63S AMG some time in late March of 2015.
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 04:18 PM
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But the same amount of 2013 cars were likely produced and they must have ultimately been sold ... Same with all these 2016 e63's... They will be sold eventually
I am not sure I would make that assumption. The 2013 production run may have been cut short to help with the re-tooling for the significant changes. I tried poking around the internet for production numbers to bear that out but haven't found anything yet.
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I am not sure I would make that assumption. The 2013 production run may have been cut short to help with the re-tooling for the significant changes. I tried poking around the internet for production numbers to bear that out but haven't found anything yet.
http://left-lane.com/us-car-sales-da...-benz-e-class/

I can't make sense of this
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 04:33 PM
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I think that data is skewed. I don't think they are breaking it down by Model Year being sold. So the October - December 2013 sales may be for MY 2014 cars.
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Old Jul 27, 2016 | 04:37 PM
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http://www.motortrend.com/cars/merce...s-first-drive/

It looks like at the bottom of the data chart that the MY 2014 E class went on sale May 2013. So that will completely obscure the sales data in those charts.
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appreciate the feedback here.

still searching the web to try and figure out if there were fewer 2013's for sale compared to prior/previous years as a reason for the low used car supply right now on 2013s..... or is it the 2013 owners love them, very reliable, and few people are willing to part with them ???

will keep searching for a good used 2013 E63 to scoop up and probably will have to pull trigger quick as it appears the supply will be low....
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