Nice car and some good pics. Did not have time to go into real detail, but it just seems peculiar that:

1/- The pic were date of manufacture is shown: the year is blacked out.

2/- Worldwide by 1998 model year, ALL S600s had Parktronic as STANDARD, and this car does not have it. Maybe in the U.S. it was different, but seems weird.

3/- Finally, the airbag is a COMPLETELY different shade of grey from the original wheel and dash tone. This usually tells of a new airbag being installed after production (at factory all shades of interior components are carefully matched, afterwards is just luck that they match). Hence: an accident! How bad? Well, you just have to guess... but bad enough that the airbag was deployed.

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A. Rosich
CL 500, 1998
S 500 L, 1998
E 320 T, 1995 [Sadly sold ]