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Here is the numbers for ALL 500E Production

WORLDWIDE PRODUCTION PER YEAR:
1990 - 46 cars (0.4% of cars)
1991 - 2566 cars (24.7%)
1992 - 4416 cars (42.6%)
1993 - 1596 cars (15.41%)
1994 - 1735 cars (16.75%)

USA IMPORTS
1990 - 0 cars
1991 - 0 cars
1992 - 633 cars
1993 - 498 cars
1994 - 374 cars
TOTAL US IMPORTS - 1,505 cars


U.K. IMPORTS (all LHD)
1990 - 0 cars
1991 - 21 cars
1992 - 4 cars
1993 - 2 cars
1994 - 2 cars
TOTAL U.K. IMPORTS - 29 cars

Note that the production is for Calendar year and not Product year. Production started at the Porsche Rossle-Bau facility in Zuffenhausen in Sept 1990 and ended January 1995. There are no US 1995 E500s according to MB Germany. There are a few Canadian ones. The rest are German, Japanese or Middle East.