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Old 05-19-2004, 07:29 PM
turnne1 turnne1 is offline
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The price of the W140 in the later years was a laugh and a half compared to the prices of the W126 in the later years
You need to make you compare apples to apples....the 1992 400SEL was much more car than the 1991 420SEL it replaced.
The 1991 420 SEL was more like the 1992 300SE...actually I think the SE had more HP(?)...and a lot more luxury

As I recall the sticker of the two cars was about the same

As for the 560SEL of 1991..I think sticker was about $78,000....that would have been about the sticker of the 400SEL of 1992...much more car...same money


One thing..to mention here is that I think there has been no mention of what the cars were actually selling for....I think the S class cars of the 90-91 vintage were heavilly discounted from sticker...I don't think 10-12K off was uncommon(LS400 effect?)

the same goes for the later 140's(but I think the buyers of the first couple of years overpaid)
No one paid anywhere close to sticker on the later models(97 forward)...especially on the S500 and S600 models
I guess that says something about what the public thought the car was worth


Warren
1992 300Sd 177K
Columbus Ohio
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