Just got a call back from MBUSA Customer Relations. They are saying the E-Class delays are being caused by German regulations and they have no idea when they will be released.

other than it’s a German company I’m trying to figure out why German regulations would affect a car for the US market... barring CARB or EPA having a weed up their respective butts about the same issue

Also—2019s have hit the road in Germany already, no? @f1mike28 (Michael Kubler) has had his for a couple of weeks already I think?

yeah I think I smell something fishy. Kind of like airlines blame every delay on weather or the FAA, even when you can look out the terminal and see wires hanging out of the engine that just fell off the wing of the plane. 😬

leave it to a government to screw everything up and suck all the fun out.

Personally, I think the former head of VW should have been shot. Not because they cheated... I actually thought it was a clever way around ludicrous regulations that helped absolutely nothing ... and it was clever as hell. His fault was they got caught and now everyone has to suffer. Had they put a little more effort, eveeyone would have come out ahead.... people’s cars would still be reasonably priced, the tree-huggers would have continued to have a woody because they were “helping” somehow and WE WOULD ALL HAVE OUR CARS NOW—- not waiting for a bunch of bureaucrats justifying their jobs by holding up progress.

:-)

so, why wouldn’t it surprise me if the German government said that the German auto maker couldn’t sell cars ANYWHERE that weren’t compliant — even to a country like the US, which is not subject to (and probably doesn’t give a rat’s *** about) that law.

It’s bad enough that we have California, that thinks it’s higher and mightier than the Federal Government— and it know better —and has caused, over all these years, to have added thousands of dollars to the cost of our cars

I suspect some production might be affected, as it has been for some VW and Audi models.

The lack of availability means more risk of grey market imports. To counter, you defer release in other markets.

I’m no expert, but this makes sense.

Just talked to my guy and he also confirms the image... he did point out that it’s all projected times that will more than likely change and how at the start of August the E300, GLC300 both had a tentative release of mid Sept and both came in August once things were updated. So in another few weeks to a month the outlook on every car could change. Currently, this information is based on “as of now”

Expect the worse, hope for the best.

I sure hope so.