It seems rather odd that a ship would travel all the way around Florida and up to Alabama when they cold just hit the East coast. I am a memeber of the MBCA and recently there was an outing at the Mercedes delivery processing center in Maryland. I have always thought that most imports from Europe came through Baltimore, MD. Though my VW Passat had aport of entry of Boston, MA.

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1999 MB SL500 (110,000 mi)
2004 Volvo V70 2.5T (220,000 mi)
2014 Tesla Model S 85 (136,000 mi)
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