Price Increases on the sly .....

[saorbust]

Has anyone else noticed the change in prices from MB ?

I note the new price lists for the CLK Cab for example - dated 1st April (some kind of joke?!) on the MB UK website show a slight increase in basic model costs.

Eg, CLK320 - as of Jan 1st is £38,730 on the road (I have the downloaded brochure) - yet now it is £39,500. Thats a considerable increase of £770 in 3 months. Nearly 2%c

Doesn't quite seem right to me - I don't think the exchange rate has moved that much ! To my mind its taking the p#ss.

Clarky.

Just noted - its only for the Open top models - the SL & CLK. Top range SL has gone up over £2,000.

 

[C240Sport97]

MB has been increasing prices about 2x a year if not more, with no announcement, just new price lists

The word for it is profiteering, or maybe one day, they will lose their pricing power.

 

[Ralph]

Exchange Rate 01.01.04 1.4224
Exchange Rate 30.04.04 1.4810
An extra profit to MB Germany of 4.119%
Plus Price rise of ..................... 1.988%
Actual Price rise in € ................ 6.107%
Annualised that's about ........... 19% !!!!