Wednesday 30th July 2014

Mercedes S-Class Coupe prices confirmed

The range starts just below £100K and then goes quite a long way above!

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Nothing like being proved wrong, is there? When Mercedes announced the S65 AMG Coupe a couple of weeks back we suggested it might be in the region of £150K. Its nearest 600hp+ 12-cylinder rival, the Bentley Continental GT Speed, is £152,600 and so there was some logic to the conjecture.

One hundred and eighty three thousand pounds

We were out. Way out. Order an S65 and it will cost £183,065 before options (more on that shortly). When you're checking the price of a new Ferrari FF by way of comparison (£227,142 FYI) you know a car is jolly expensive. Still, an obscene price is as per for a V12 Merc (the SL65 is £170K) and it's unlikely to put too many prospective customers off. Those after the most powerful and fastest will get it you suspect.

At least the S63 AMG guesstimates were in the right area, the £124,715 list price bang on the £125K predictions. It is 45hp and 74lb ft down on the 6.0-litre AMG but then 585hp and 664lb ft should do the job for most. The S500 will be added early in 2015 at £96,565.

Mercedes has listed prices of a few S Class coupe options also. The AMG Exterior Carbonfibre Package is fairly self explanatory and adds £5,000. The £765 AMG Night Package finishes the exhaust in black chrome and adds more black around the exterior.

Pick of the range perhaps?

For your passenger's enjoyment, how about the panoramic roof? May as well add the rear fridge for them too. That's £4,030 and £1,130 respectively. There isn't a price yet for the carbon ceramic brakes but given they're £7,090 on the saloon we'd assume a similar premium for the coupe.

Of course being a vast, fast Mercedes will mean fearsome depreciation. This previous generation S65 saloon is for sale at only £45K after 25,000 miles. How long until the new coupe is down there?

[MyCC]

As soon as you starting getting above £150k, the limiting factor in being able to justify such prices will be the Mercedes badge on the front. The S65 Coupe is probably the best engineered coupe in the world but it can't compete with the brand catchet of exotica like Ferrari & Bentley.

Regards,

MyCC.