An extremely clean & green W140 Mercedes-Benz S280, seen near the Sanlitun beer district in Beijing. The vehicle seemed to be in near-perfect shape with bright paint, shiny chrome, and all parts intact. Green is a very rare color for the W140, especially in China, where most come in black.
The W140 Mercedes-Benz S-class was produced from 1991 until 1998, it was the first S-class that was officially exported to China. The S280 was powered by a 2.8 liter six-in-line with 193hp and 270nm, top speed was a very decent 215km/h and 0-100 was gone in 10.5 seconds.
When I was taking the pictures a met the owner of the vehicle, a kinda hip man of about 40 years old. He wasn’t very friendly at first, asking me rather rudely what the foek I was doing. I calmly explained that I liked his car a lot and such and such.
He was silent for a sec and then asked me whether I was interested in buying it for 60.000 yuan (9.640 USD). That didn’t sound like too much for such a clean example so I gave him my card, he didn’t give me his card, and asked him to mail me some more details on the car. Sadly, he didn’t.
So now I am looking all over the streets every day, hoping to see it again…
Other W140 in China: S600 in black, Pullman S6000, S500 with W210 E, motorcade, motorcade, S500, crash, body kit, S500 in white, S600, and another S600.
Are you thinking of buying it?
lovely! definitely not too big of a price tag for that beauty.
but…280 or 320?
@ And. j: yes, I do. But I am afraid of maintenance costs, so I’ll think it over, and anyway, I can’t find the car anymore.
@ Schaminski: thank you! that was a bit messy…