The past few weeks I’ve come across a few Mercedes-Benz SL500 Silver Arrows that have garnered some attention. This car in Florida ended up selling for $16,900 and this car in Atlanta looks like it is still for sale. Today, I came across one of the 100 SL600 Silver Arrows that were made for the US market. The SL600s differed from the SL500s in that they didn’t receive the two-tone white interior but it did get the very pricey panoramic glass hardtop as standard. You also got a cool metal briefcase with some goodies inside of it that matches the car. Of course, you paid for all that at nearly $140,000 in 2002. Today, I have found one of these SL600 Silver Arrows for sale in Texas with just 5,400 miles. The price? Well, if we are on planet earth, this price is somewhere on Neptune. Seriously, I spit water on monitor when I saw this number and I wasn’t even drinking anything at the time. It is just that crazy.
CLICK FOR DETAILS: 2002 Mercedes-Benz SL600 Silver Arrow at CarGurus
Year: 2002
Model: SL600 Silver Arrow
VIN: WDBFA76FX2F202659
Engine: 6.0 liter V12
Transmission: 5-speed automatic
Mileage: 5,416 mi
Price: $109,990
Clean CARFAX. **NON-SMOKER**, **CLEAN AUTOCHECK REPORT**, Silver Arrow Edition 1 of 100 Made Pano Roof, Factory Hard Top with Pano RoofFactory Breifcase with Manuals, 6.0L V12 SMPI DOHCBlack Leather18 Multipiece 6-Spoke Alloy Wheels6 Speakers, Adaptive suspension, Air Conditioning, Aluminum Briefcase Delivery Kit, AM/FM Stereo w/Cassette/6 CD Changer, Auto-leveling suspension, Brushed Aluminum Instrument Cluster, Convertible HardTop, Cross-Drilled Front & Rear Brake Rotors, Delay-off headlights, Driver & Passenger Multicontour Seats, Front Bucket Seats, Front fog lights, Genuine wood console insert, Genuine wood dashboard insert, Genuine wood door panel insert, Heated Front Bucket Seats, High intensity discharge headlights: Xenon, Leather Seat Trim, Metallic-Effect Black Bird’s Eye Maple Wood Trim, Panorama Roof w/Sunshade, Polished Aluminum Exterior Trim, Polished Stainless Steel Exhaust Finisher, Rear fog lights, Remote keyless entry, Silver Arrow Insignia, SL Silver Arrow Edition, Telescoping steering wheel, Tilt steering wheel, Weather band radio. This vehicle is also eligible for our EXCLUSIONARY EXTENDED WARRANTY that covers a wide variety of components (certain exclusions apply)…..Please ask your sales representative for details.Welcome to Dallas Fort Worth’s largest full service independent dealership. We specialize in offering the highest quality vehicles, providing outstanding customer service, obtaining the best financing options for everyone and stocking a large selection of the finest Cars, SUVs, Trucks, Exotics and more. We are a No Haggle pricing dealership to ensure you have an outstanding, low pressure buying experience. Whether you’re in the market to purchase, lease or need your vehicle serviced our Goal is to Make you a Customer for Life.Learn more about us by calling 214-483-9040 or via e-mail at sales@earthmotorcars.com. Visit us on our Website at www.earthmotorcars.com.
First, looks take a quick glance at this car before we get to the giant whale in the room. This car has only 5,400 miles and should be perfect, right? Well, cosmetically it does look that. Everything looks new and it even has that 2000s era briefcase with all the literature in it. Mechanically? Take a look at the photo of the gauge cluster with the car running. It sure looks like the BAS/ESP and ABS lights are both shining bright to me. Is this a problem on a normal used car from 2002? Not really. An inconvenience for sure, but it can be fixed without much issue. This car? Totally unacceptable. Why? Because of the seller’s asking price.
$109,990. That is what this dealer thinks car is worth. I don’t know how and I don’t know why. There is zero evidence or prior sales that suggest this is even close to a six-figure car. Regular late-model V12 cars with under 35,000 miles are only bringing prices in the mid-$20,000 in auction settings. Does the Silver Arrow package bring another $80,000 in value? I don’t think so. I can’t imagine there are any people out there with $100,000 in their pocket looking to ”invest” in a car that thinks this one would be a good idea. You could roll this car across the stage at Gooding & Company or RM Sotheby’s with two guys with British accents going on about how special it is and no one in the crowd is going to think this is a $100,000 car, no matter how drunk they are.
– Andrew
Somebody might say the price seems really high, but go try to find another one. I know of one with 20,000 miles hiding away in a warehouse. Most don’t have the panoramic top. This mileage is amazing – I think Mercedes kept one of them so it’s actually a good value I would see if you could get it for under 100K.
@Erich I believe all the SL600 Silver Arrows had the Pano top as standard.
No harm in checking the temperature of the water with an absurd price sometimes just in an outside event that someone with some jingle in their pocket bites. But this? I am insulted and offended by it! This the type of situation, albeit none of my business, I find myself sending an email stating that there are people out there that are fuming inside and that he gives the good sellers out there a shit reputation. The other day there was a c123 with an asking price of $49,995 with a Maaco repaint and a hand formed trunk with bondo. The trunk could qualify for part 2 of the movie ‘Ghost.’
This Mercedes is a V12 engine silver arrow edition ,
In 2002 Mercedes ONLY made 100 units and this particular model was last to leave assembly line as described in that silver bag in the same trunk of this car,.
Is the car worth 100k? Answer will vary from a collector Mercedes to another Porsche collector, I believe they will answer at RM Sotheby s suction if this model ever become for sale