[W126 Coupe] 560SEC figures & survival rate for Germany

[Gerry Van Zandt]

Joe,

Some additional information from a third source -- the official quarterly magazine of the Mercedes-Benz Interessengemeinschaft (MBIG), which is the largest and most authoritative MB club in Germany.

This morning I came across the 560SEC figures for Germany (this is all model years of the coupe) that are registered in that country, in the MBIG Magazine "Ponton Kurier."  The 2011 figures should be out in the next month or two….probably the next quarterly issue of the magazine.  I will update them when I receive that issue.

All figures from 2003 to the present are of January 1 of that given year, registered cars.
All figures shown from 1986-2004 are of July 1 of that given year, registered cars.

2010:  1427 cars
2009:  1482
2008:  1551
2007:  2217
2006:  2382
2005:  2525
2004:  2718
2003:  2894
2002:  3127
2001:  3282
1998:  3726
1996:  4192
1994:  4515
1992:  4771
1990:  4630
1986:  444

TOTAL 560SEC PRODUCTION WORLDWIDE, 1986-1991:  28929

GERMAN PRODUCTION:  7882 (** from MBIG sources)
USA PRODUCTION:  10,625 (** from SL Market Letter sources)

Notice the growth in registered cars between 1990 and 1992.  That pretty much confirms my previous point of the Benzworld data being incorrect with regard to 84.5% of total 1991 production of SECs going to the US market, simply because the registered number of cars increased for the German market between those two years by 141 cars.

Let's draw a few conclusions from the data:

27.25 percent of all 560SEC production was retained for the German market.  This is addition to the 10,625 cars (36.75 percent of all SEC production) that went to the US market from 1986-1991.  So between the US and German markets, 64 percent of all SEC production went to those two countries.
I have attached a graph that shows this information in a curve.  This may be useful information for you as general data to also help extrapolate and refine your own data model for the US cars in estimating the survivor erosion rate and number of survivors as a total percentage of production slated for the country.  You can also find this graph at the following URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10675111/SECGermany.jpg

Hope all of this information helps.

Cheers,
Gerry


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