Not my favourite colour or interior, and that's one heck of a steep price even for Australia, but it does look mint!
Late model 190Es are very rare here; after Mercedes brought out the much cheaper but fundamentally identical-looking 180E in 1991 I think most of their customers either pocketed the savings with the 180E, or spent a few extra dollars more than the 190E would have cost and bought a W124 230E instead.
It'd be an interesting test drive - to see what a 190E with so few miles on it is like!
Funny you mention it, but the Mercedes-branded OEM radio on my 190E has the volume and other main controls on the left, but the OEM radio on my 180E has them on the right. And both are from the same manufacturer (Eurovox).
I think we don't have quite the glut of used cars here that you guys have in North America. Cars have always been more expensive here to buy new, so it's depreciating from a higher base. And then you throw in programs like Cash for Clunkers to get everyone to run out and buy new cars, and old cars drop in value further.
I'd love to buy a 190E at the kinds of prices you guys get there. Then again, we're getting to that point both here and there where the market value is so low that many really nice ones that are scrapped or run into the ground as soon as anything significant goes wrong because people won't spend $2000 to keep a $1000 car on the road, and that makes it that much more difficult to find one for sale in really good condition. (As vaifantatic has been finding)
PS: beautiful car you have there SLK230red. Hopefully you enjoy it far more than the small amount of cash you'd get if you sold it and will hang on to it for that reason.
What! thats even more than my E320 is worth! i could sell that for 9,500 is what they said when i had it appraised! (i know appraised is kind of dumb but i wanted to know how much its worth) i paid 1,500 for my car and the man wanted 2,000 for it! i don't think i would pay 11,000 dollars for an 18 year old car... like i was told the older the car is and the less miles it has means more sitting, and possibly more leaking.
I thought they only called it a 180E if it had the 1.8 litre engine in it? Or did they make a 190 with the 1.8 in it and call it that just because it had more options than the 180 did? ie: mb tex, electric windows and such?
180E = 190E 1.8 with the most basic equipment specification available, the only concession being they did have aircon as standard.
Basically, we were in a recession, the government had ramped up luxury car tax, 190Es had rocketed up in price as a result, so Mercedes Benz Australia managed to pull a rabbit out of hat. Through a combination of stripping the spec back (no ABS, no folding armrests, no tachometer, even no rear passenger light!) as well as claiming export credits to offset import duties based on the fact that Mercedes was buying Australian-made coil springs and glass and other parts to make W201s out of, they were able to get the price down from $63,000 for the 1990 190E 1.8 to a whisker under the $45,000 luxury car tax threshold for the 1991 180E. The 5 speed manual was slightly cheaper again. It was a very basic car with not a lot of straight-line performance, and there were very few available options (eg no sunroof, metallic paint, or leather trim options) but you were getting a proper brand new, very stylish, Made-in-Germany Mercedes Benz with legendary build quality and engineering (not to mention the three pointed star to impress the neighbours with) for the same price as a high spec Toyota Cressida or Nissan Maxima. And people bought them in large numbers.
NB: this was back in the days when we had higher tarriffs and a much weaker currency, which largely explains those high prices.
Hey all I got an email alert for a 1993 190E 2.0 with only 88,000 km (55,000 mi) on the odometer. 1993 MERCEDES 190E W201 Private Cars For Sale in NSW - carsales.com.au Not my favourite colour or interior, and that's one heck of a steep price even for Australia, but it does look mint! Late model 190Es are very rare here; after Mercedes brought out the much cheaper but fundamentally identical-looking 180E in 1991 I think most of their customers either pocketed the savings with the 180E, or spent a few extra dollars more than the 190E would have cost and bought a W124 230E instead. It'd be an interesting test drive - to see what a 190E with so few miles on it is like!
This seems to be a very odd color combination. Typically, the color on the bottom matches the color on the top but that's not the case for this car. It makes me wonder if it's been painted and why it was painted? I would check the vin # with the MB Classic center to see if these are the original colors or if it's been painted. I would be suspicious if it was painted.
This seems to be a very odd color combination. Typically, the color on the bottom matches the color on the top but that's not the case for this car. It makes me wonder if it's been painted and why it was painted?
I've seen another 1993 190E 2.0 with the exact same colours, and as with this one it was a very low mileage example that appeared to be totally original.
Who knows, maybe as production neared its end they may have made a few running changes such as having the same grey-coloured lower moldings for a few different body colours.
Is the law in the USA still that after a car is 30 years old, you can pretty much import anything (even crazy shit like right-hand-drive Australian Ford Falcons you want to turn into a Mad Max car)? If so, then you've only got to wait until December 2012 and you could potentially import an original European 190 or 190E; the early ones that weighed only 1100kg and had no catalytic converter. Much faster than a 180E, better MPG, just somewhat smoggier exhaust. Oh, and 30 years old. :-/
Edit: I've just realised you're from Canada (eh?). So obviously the USA's restrictions on used car imports are irrelevant in your case...
Edit again: I've just found in Canada you can import a 15 year old car. If I ever decide to sell my 5 speed manual 180E srpcao, you shall have first option to buy. I shudder to think what it'd cost to ship from Melbourne to Vancouver though!
that looks a mint car. even the engine bay looks really clean. i did notice cars are pretty expensive in AU, even the used ones when i was working over there. but then again, so it is with our market here in the philippines. for example, a 190E 16V in good running condition can go upwards of USD 11,000.00. i guess its a matter of demand higher than supply.
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