perhaps i have completed my little bruno sacco collection as i stumbled into a cpo'ed 215 series in sfo just before christmas. and acquired it.

but, there are some mysteries about it that i am having difficulties in solving. and perhaps someone here has the answers...

1. the vehicle is painted in brilliant silver. and the interior is finished in java leather. according to some benz literature that i acquired online[ragtop.org] this combination was "not recommended". why would that have been?

according to the monroney, a special order charge was accessed. and i am assuming that was for the car to be fabricated with this "not recommended" leather color. yes? or no?

2. the official benz literature stipulates that this car would have a bose sound system.

but according to the monroney, it is outfitted with a harmon multichannel system.

can anyone here explain this?

3. wheels for this car are 19# amg monobloc alloys, fitted as a standard. yet the benz literature does not indicate that such shoes can be used with this vehicle.

was something out of the ordinary fitted to these 2006 amg 215 cars?

stranger still, though the running shoes are of 19" diameter, the spare is an 18". can anyone tell me why?

by the way, the cavity in the trunk has been manufactured to accommodate a 19" diameter wheel with full size spare.

4. another mystery is that the mbusa website specs for this vehicle indicates it can accommodate an ipod connection accessory, but the parts guys at the selling dealership tell me that this mbusa info is in error.

true or false?

5. finally, does anyone here know how many of the supercharged CL55AMG's were produced during their production years?

john olson tells me that benz stopped making this info public in 2004 as the result of a lawsuit lost by bmw concerning production limit claims[found to be false] concerning its M series production. true or false?

6. as a corollary, the dealer rep who assisted me in the acquisition of this car has told me that benz is radically reducing the number of AMG cars for this and future production years.

didn't have the exact numbers, but said that the number of AMG cars that will be produced for the future would be reduced by 80%.

the official benz explanation is that this is being done so as to prop up the resale value of AMG-designated vehicles.

thnx for any and all replies. and all the best for the new year.