CLK 200 convert.

[Corkscrew]

Here in Bangkok we can only get the CLK 200 k. Here we also have a S and an SLK

How do you like your CLK?

[Clkboi]

Originally Posted by Corkscrew

Here in Bangkok we can only get the CLK 200 k. Here we also have a S and an SLK

How do you like your CLK?

I have been an owner of a CLK for 5 months and so far love it. If you are a coupe guy than you will never want to buy another coupe. Unless its a Lambo or Ferrari lol. Not even a Bentley would to for me!!

Weird how you only can get the 200 though. Thats a kompressor if i am right??

[Corkscrew]

Originally Posted by Clkboi

I have been an owner of a CLK for 5 months and so far love it. If you are a coupe guy than you will never want to buy another coupe. Unless its a Lambo or Ferrari lol. Not even a Bentley would to for me!!

Weird how you only can get the 200 though. Thats a kompressor if i am right??

Yes....Kompressor! Thailand has a very high tax on imports...especially those with large engines. For example:

S500 = $320,000.00
CL500Coupe = $527,000.00
SL350 = $347,000.00

Cheapest is C200K = $76,000.00

[blk05c230k]

holy crap!!! that's expensive as nuts!!! but i tell ya, i do like my car! it's been an absolute blast to drive! i am absolutely satisfied with my car...even though it get crappy mileage, but what do you expect from a v-8...my previous car was a c 230 kompressor, and it was a miser on gas...gas mileage sucks, but i still do love the car.

[Jetjok]

Ahh, Bangkok. One of my favorite cities on this planet. Nice people, nice city, nice everything except traffic. And I'll not forget my day-trip to see and walk on the bridge over the river Kwai and my visit to the Khanchanaburi War Cemetery.

That said, importing luxury cars into any Asian country is not without huge cost. When I flew MD-11's, we were carrying a Rolls Royce into Mumbai (Bombay). After landing, we had the car unloaded as we left for the Oberoi Towers hotel. Two days later as we were preparing to leave for Bangkok, the car was still right where it had been when it was unloaded. About a month later we were back in Mumbai and guess what, the owner of the car still had not picked it up. So here's this $300K Rolls Royce sitting on the ramp, uncovered, with all these broken down pieces of ground equipment all around it. I asked one of the managers who worked there about it, and he said that the reason the car was still there was that the import tax, which still hadn't been paid, was more than the purchase price of the car, and the owner couldn't afford to pay it. I guess it's still there.

JJ