A 27-year-old Mercedes-Benz SL 600 is on sale in Moscow, Russia right now after being imported from Germany. The seller calls its condition ‘ideal’ and asks for 21,000,000 rubles (~207,900 USD).
The R129 generation (see video) was in production in 1989 through 2001. Mercedes has made over 213,000 such vehicles in total, releasing them wide a wide assortment of engines from humble 2.8-liter six-pots to range-topping 6.0-liter V12 mills. Tuners have often managed to stroke out the latter to 7.1–7.3 liters of displacement.
According to the listing, the car on sale was purchased from a private collection in Germany in late 2020 and brought to Russia with full customs clearance. With barely over 2,600 kilometers (1,615 miles) under its belt, it is practically new.
The interior is trimmed with black and grey leather. A removable hardtop is included with the car alongside its standard collapsible soft top. A number of exotic OEM options are installed, too, including adaptive shock absorbers (a true rarity for the 1990s) and Xenon headlights (available exclusively for the SL 600 series back at the time).
Power for the luxury car comes from a stock six-liter V12 churning out 394 PS (389 hp / 290 kW) to the rear wheels through a five-speed automatic transmission. Going from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) takes 6.1 seconds, and the top speed doesn’t exceed 250 km/h (155 mph). Fuel consumption in an urban environment averages out on 23.3 liters per 100 kilometers (that’s almost exactly 10 miles per gallon).