Mercedes-Benz S600L 7.0 AMG — Japanese auctions or buy illiquid

Mercedes-Benz S600L 7.0 AMG — Japanese auctions or buy illiquid

Today, in Japan, you can buy a Mercedes with a mileage of 30 — 80 thousand kilometers..

At the beginning I would like to say that in Japan there are no restrictions on local legislation, on the use of vehicles with left-hand steering wheel. The Japanese have always been famous for their love of cars Mercedes, the car to which they relate with particular trepidation. Having such a car was considered particularly chic! And it could allow the wealthiest. This trend originated in the 70 — 80 years …

Wealthy Japanese as expected, preferred the comfort and luxury, but the domestic market because it did not meet their requirements, the choice fell on the vehicles of European brands, namely German, large sedans. At that time the Germans were just built up its capacity, where the flagship was a huge W100 or as it was called Grand Mercedes, and with the release of the W126, was driven the last nail in the coffin of the once magnificent British cars, and not rusted so fast German products, as British aristocrats …
Since that time, the tradition of having a car of the German mark continues to this day, and is unlikely to change in the near future …

Why run a little?

In fact, those who are familiar with Japan as a whole and with the mentality of the people of this wonderful country in particular, need to know the reason why the Japanese are reluctant to use cars as the main vehicle. For those who have a poor understanding of what is the reason for this, I will try to briefly and clearly explain the reason for this. Japan consists of four major islands. This country is on the right is the second largest in the world economic development. Japan’s territory, compared with the United States is 25 times smaller. Gasoline more expensive American three times! Air and sea transport, as well as the railway in Japan developed at the highest level. Most high-speed express trains are mainly in Japan (for example: express train «Shinkansen») This type of transport is cheap, convenient, and most importantly high-speed …
The Japanese are very well aware of the price of their time and therefore in large cities, where a very well-developed infrastructure, prefer public transport and thus avoid unpleasant having to spend valuable time on the standstill in numerous traffic jams. Therefore, the inhabitants of the country, «Rising Sun» try to rarely use cars daily. For example, residents of megacities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kёto usually travel to work by train, in the same way and returned home …
Anyway, about the Japanese mentality, I would like to write about this car …

This copy was bought at auction «USS Tokyo» for a specific customer …

The auction estimate 4B

To be honest, today, the competition in the acquisition of such instances here, the units …

It is understood that the car is a rare and exclusive, in fact it says the individual plate number …

Rare dinosaur — 496 hp and 720 Nm at 3900 rev / min.

The car was from the beginning in the use of one well-known in Japan, «restaurateur — the owner of the public networks.» Run by the way absolutely not wound his mother for quite understandable reasons, firstly the Japanese mentality will not allow this to do, and secondly it makes no sense on the specifics of motor business Japan in the third before the car hits the auction it is verified services and …

Staff teams make packaging can say exclusive — collectible, as the Germans put their cars only for the Japanese market. The most expensive equipment by the way, Switzerland is resting …

Ideally Salon …

Wood, where the same without him, at all times, it was a sign of status and indicator car … Young people on «risovozkah» remember one simple thing, when used in the interior decoration of the real, natural materials, this indicates the status of the car! And not that he was old, Mercedes does not get old and moves from one category to another)))

Today, this car is very difficult to implement, the machine can be sold over the years … Buy them in the implementation, not profitable. Let me remind you that this instance was acquired for the individual …

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