There shouldn't be any delays for emissions since nothing about the drivetrain changed since last year. They are holding them at the ports for some unknown release date for marketing/sales purposes.

They shouldn't be doing this. Why bake them at the ports? Other companies generally don't do this. Also, why the lack of transparency and communication with the dealers and customers?

I wonder if they are being held up for these CEL problems that they can't seem to identify in some of the other threads here?

Agree completely... MBUSA dropped the ball on so many levels it's scary.. my dealer, and others have voiced the same gripe towards mbusa..... ithink I'm taking my hard earned $ elsewhere.

Ouch! My dealer was demanding $10K, I was pushing $1K we settled on $2K.

VPC = Vehicle Procressing Centre

Service campaign = something that can be done to upgrade, repair, or make the car run efficiently, but is not considered mandatory or a safety issue (which would result in a vehicle "recall")

As typical, MB Canada will not release the 19 too early (mostly due to marketing reason, ignoring the fact of yet another emission clearance status ?? iwhich I doubt it will need for the 19). MB Canada wants to ensure most of the 18 are gone from dealers' inventories first and then they will release the 19.

That's a big reason. Dealers don't want '19s flooding the market before they have a chance to clear out the late '18s that just hit the ground. Who would buy a '18 from one dealer when a dealer in the next town has a '19 for the same price? And the dealer with the '18 doesn't want to take a bath on a car they got last week and haven't had a chance to move. It sucks, but what can you do?

Perhaps - but there is no reason why they can't release cars that customers have ordered. Those cars are obviously not going to dealer lots. To hold up an ordered car is just horrible customer service, imo.

MB Canada website shows there are 42 sedan + 18 wagon = 60 E63S for sale across Canada (that's just based on corporate owned stores, not including the inventories of the independent dealers). These many will certainly require some factory credit + at least 6-7% dealer side discounts to move them a bit quicker.

https://www.inventory.mercedes-benz....%5B%5D=E63+AMG

MB only cares how they want to move their products on a marketing timely manner.

Because if they DO saddle dealerships with 2018 models just weeks or days before a 2019 lands they WILL have to offer incentives and dealer cash to help move the "older" inventory and they would rather hold back the 2019s to give the dealers a chance to sell those cars at full price than eat the margin or worse on month old 2018s. Again, this sucks for the end-consumer but it's just business.

Right, but that's not how the other companies do business, and they have to compete with these other companies that don't bake cars at the port...

For Canada, I only know MB does it this way (even on their non AMG vehicles) ... holding back the new model year car until some arbitrary date and then release. For BMW in Canada, it is not done the MB way as far as I know.

MB does the same thing in the US...

It wouldn't be so bad if the release date was disclosed to the customers and dealers in advance, but this information is not provided. They just say things like "Q3" or "fall" which don't help much... My impression is that typically they do release the cars by September, so an August or later production slot is pretty safe in terms of avoiding having your car bake at the port for too long. Avoid June and July slots.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mbw...29be590e89.jpg
Current status.

Funny enough, on June 12th the "Planned Delivery Date" read "20180726" - go figure

Oh damn, thats awesome! Keep us posted and let us know if you get it on the 23rd. When you first ordered the car did they say delivery was going to be in July? Or is this much earlier than initially expected?

Congrats man.

The above picture is just for demonstration purposes to show you guys what my SA sees right now, which isn't a lot as you can tell.

I am with @bobblehead on this one - very unlikely the car will arrive at dealer by July 23rd.

it reminds me of a year old blog / Youtube that a MB dealer in Halifax released a 2018 C63AMG to a customer (plated and registered) WITHOUT the authorization of MB Canada, in the end, the dealer has to beg the customer to return the car back to the dealer for hold until MB Canada gives the final release clearance. In turn, the dealer has to provide the customer a S63 as loaner to drive around for a few weeks while the car was on hold.

I wouldn't really mind a S63 lol

Hello,
Just learned my E63S is on the transport ship Fremantle highway arriving in Baltimore on Monday the 16th. No apparent hold at the VPC, and possibly can be at the dealer the week of the 23rd. Will keep updating.
Cheers,