anything with an AMG badge seems to have a £3k fee added
Personally I still think the c43 is a 4-8k car
there is not enough demand for them to be north of £6k unless its super low mileage and mint but there are not that many like that you would be willing to pay .
that's my 2p worth anyway!
I tend to agree with your two-penneth.
The W202 is still in the no mans land, is it a jalopy, daily driver or a modern classic?.
Even poverty spec W202's are climbing and some have legitimate decent selling prices, but then you have an early and very rare C200 (no passenger airbag and no rear head rests) a possible ex MB press fleet car with a VBD number plate, that can't make £700 (though the seller is unlikely to know the possible MB connection as they have not mentioned it), if it wasn't for the fact I would be another £300+ to get it oop' North, it would be sat on my driveway now. I just wish someone would buy it, so I can stop looking at it.
1994 MERCEDES C200 MANUAL 118K MOT 11/9/19 RARE CAR RWD CLASSIC RETRO GERMAN1 | eBay
Back to thread and AMG's, the prices continue to be all over the place.
I wholeheartedly agree, by the main most W202 AMG's changing hands are in the £4-8k region at the moment. The odd stunner is bucking the trend, I was reliably informed that Amari Supercars sold a C43 AMG recently, for a little under £20k, not to take anything away from that, but I expect some of Mr Amari's customers, that could be chump change.
My 2p; the general lack of awareness of the W202 AMG will hamper prices for a while yet to come.
Being conservative, there was around 800 C36 & C43's combined registered in the UK from 94-2000, How Many Left would indicate around 3500 M3's were registered in the same period, rightly or wrongly it will always be a higher profile car.
In the shadow of the 190?
I firmly believe that as the W201's climb further up, it will push more people into a W202.
The same train of thought could be aimed at the AMG's, while taking a negative view that unlike the 190 2.3-16 & 2.5-16, the W202 AMG's were only auto and had no direct homologation-motorsport connection, they were a product of their environment; DTM had gone from production based to silhouette, ending a racer for the road requirement.
Auto only, reading period road tests MB were aiming at the thrusting executive to cover great miles with minimal attention, road testers just wanted to throw the back end out on an A road and moaned about the steering and chassis.
I also believe the W202 may benefit from some overflow of W124 seekers, more than just a passing resemblance if you stand back and squint, small or far away as Father Ted would say...
I have owned my early C36 for 4 years now, I now I will never loose money on it. Seeing the prices creeping triggered me into adding the C43 earlier this year, another I won't loose money on. However, it will be a while before they are a nice little nest egg.
Regards Gareth
