I've bought a number of MB's new: Here's what I paid for a couple of them - 1978 300D $21,253 (AC, sunroof, etc); 1984 300CD $36,663 (loaded, but the only option was the alarm system - leather, sunroof, AC, etc were all standard)

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Houston, Texas
1984 300CD 235K miles, Elvira, one owner
1987 300TD 180K miles
1974 TR6 78K miles Sarah Jane, one owner
OBK #27

Sticker for mine new was 42K and change, bought in Arkansas. lived in New Orleans til late 90's, then to the Charleston, SC area ever since.

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91 300D 249K
75 Bricklin SV1
87 190D 226K

Sticker for my '85 300D was $31,000.

Scott

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Scott
1982 Mercedes 240D, 4 speed, 275,000
1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S (70,000)
1987 Porsche 911 Coupe 109,000 (sold)
1998 Mercedes E300 TurboDiesel 147,000 (sold)
1985 Mercedes 300D 227,000 (totaled by inattentive driver with no insurance!)
1997 Mercedes E300 Diesel 236,000 (sold)
1995 Ducati 900SS (sold)
1987 VW Jetta GLI 157,000 (sold)
1986 Camaro 125,000 (sold - P.O.S.)
1977 Corvette L82 125,000 (sold)
1965 Pontiac GTO 15,000 restored (sold)

The W123 240D was the base model MB in the US until the W201 190E debuted in the US in 1984. So, a 240D would be the equivalent of today's C300, while the 280E and 300D would be the equivalent of todays E320 and E320 Bluetec.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

i shot them an email about my origional window sticker as well...
i think the price of a 79 240D w/ no sunroof, 4 speed manual, & crank windows should be a nice price. the window sticker of our 300 SL was like 89XXX and change new in 91... and it doesn't have seat heat, or CD or anything cool like the new ones...

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Matthew McIvor

2016 E350 4Matic Black/Black
2007 GL450 4Matic with Off-Road Pkg Silver/Black
1995 E300 Diesel White/Gray
1994 S600 Euro Black/ Black Velour
1986 560SL Blue/Blue/Gray
1986 190E Blue/Blue 93k

Paper work that came with my 1984 500SEC included the laminated window sticker. First purchased in April 21,1984 in Bend Oregon for $57,850. $750 of that price was a gas guzzler tax.

Second owner paid $22,000 for it in June 1992. Third owner paid $16,400 in June 2004. And I paid $7161 before taxes and registration for it in January 2006.

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Selling used Mercedes parts on Ebay...always changing...
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As was pointed out earlier, some states list the MSRP of the car on the registration and will base the ad valorum tax on MSRP minus a formula for depreciation. Nevada is one of those states, and the MSRP for my '83 was $30,973. My '77 was $11,756. In comparison, I was degarbaging a '79 Ford Courier yesterday, and the registration was still in it, MSRP $2,900.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Well, China is an '80 240D optioned like mentioned above and the original owner paid $16,600. This was a Euro delivery car and there was about an $800 buck charge for shipping it to Houston, but I can't remember if that was already included in the $16,600.
Remember, even back then nobody paid "sticker price"......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

My 82 300D was sold to a Dr in vancouver for 33k plus change, on the other hnad my 81 280ce was sold to someone in my neighbourhood for 30 and change.

seems the prices were pretty closely matched back then between canada and the US. Now we pay waaay more for the same car. Example a fully configures s5504m on mbusa site costs 115k, on our canadian site 148300 for an identical model. Same goes for pretty much all the models. We get screwed by the dealers here.

Last time I checked brokerage fees were not 33000 dollars on an s class

1983 300SD sold for about $42,500 new
1986 300SDL sold for about 66,800 new.

Don't remember the exact numbers and can't find the papers. And I don't have their options lists.

Regards

Run-Em

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1983 300SD - SPARKY THE DIESEL
2004 Audi TT 3.2 Quattro Roadster
1999 SLK - aka - LIL RED
1956 Chevy Nomad - aka - REAL MAD
1940 Ford dbl dr. Deluxe - aka - ORANGE U GLAD
1998 Kawasaki Nomad bike --

1986 MODEL YEAR CARS:
From a 1994 edition of NADA value guide:

Model/BASE MSRP:

190D / 24,300
190E / 24,300
190E 16V / 35,400
300E / 34,700
300SDL / 43,800
420SEL / 45,100
560SEL / 53,300
560SEC / 58,700
560SL / 48,200

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

my 86 sdl is branded on the title as msrp 47,???

Thanks for the information. It appears this http://www.nadaguides.com/priceguides/pc-15-2-2008-classic-collectible-and-special-interest-car-appraisal-guide-directory.aspx and this http://www.nadaguides.com/priceguides/pc-14-2-2008-official-older-used-car-guide.aspx is what I'm looking for. The question is am I 60 dollars curious?

Here's the NADA MSRP for the 1990 models from a 4/92 book:


Model / Price

190E 2.6/32,500
300E 2.6/39,950
300E 2.5 TURBO/39,700
300E/45,950
300E 4MATIC/52,550
300CE/55,700
300TE/49,650
300TE 4MATIC/56,250
300SE/52,950
300SEL/56,800
350SDL/56,800
420SEL/62,500
560SEL/73,800
560SEC/81,500
300SL/73,500
500SL/83,500

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

From a 12/90 edition of NADA Older Used Cars guide:

Model/Price

220/7,166
220D/7,385
280/9,693
280C/10,313
280SE (4.5)//10,283
450SE/13,932
450SLC/17,231
450SL/13,340
450SEL/15,438

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles