Mercedes spent $3 million and nearly a decade restoring this limo and now nobody wants it

Mercedes invested $3.2 million and seven years in the restoration of a 1975 600 Pullman limo.

It was to breathe life into an outdated limo.

The brand also wanted to bring the classic up to contemporary standards.

Sadly, however, now nobody seems to want it.

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The Mercedes-Benz limo

The restoration aimed to make the limo look like a classic from the outside but perform like a modern Maybach.

The Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman was a favorite of the wealthy of the mid-1970s.

This anthracite gray metallic and blue leather example was made on the German production line.

It boasted self-leveling suspension and hydraulic windows and was delivered to Lebanon in 1975.

It was in Malaga, Spain, that Mercedes-Benz Classic bought it in 2007 repainted in ‘Mother of Pearl White’.

Mercedes built just 2,677 units of the 600 luxury sedan – internally known as the W100 – with a short or long wheelbase and four or six doors.

Only 304 of them were hand-built Pullmans and 59 had the ‘Landaulet’ tag.

The restoration project

Daimler AG shipped to Mercedes-Benz Classic in Fellbach, Germany.

There the seemingly classic luxury sedan was donated some unexpected and expensive contemporary features.

It’s not cheap to procure parts for a car that’s so rare and has been out of production for decades.

The owner’s brief was comfort using what the modern stretched Maybach 62 offers.

The car now features an electro-transparent panoramic glass roof, shifting from clear to opaque at the touch of a button.

Plus Maybach analog gauges from the 62 sedan provide speed, time, and exterior temperature info.

In the cabin, a button controls a power glass partition for privacy en route.

The red-garnet leather seats are also borrowed from a 62 complete with electric adjustment, heating, and cooling with automatic and ambient lighting.

While spacious, it’s nowhere near the size of this 10-seater V8 Dodge Viper limo.

To raise the comfort to private-jet heights, a refrigerator accompany folding tables, and built-in nav on a sliding LCD TV screen integrated into the center wall.

A Dolby surround audio system with Bluetooth connectivity means you won’t skip a beat.

The pleated-linen curtains, white-rimmed steering wheel, instrument panel, and the Becker Grand Prix AM/FM radio in the dashboard, remain – in addition to intercom.

The owner also resisted the urge to soup up the engine too much.

Instead, the original 6.3-liter single-overhead cam V8 engine was rebuilt, with its four-speed automatic transmission sending 247HP through the rear wheels.

At the time of the listing in 2020, post-engine rebuild, the car came with only 691 miles (1,112 kilometers) on the clock.

In a less elegant conversion, this Learjet was converted into a limo that cost $1m to build.

This car just can’t seem to sell

What’s not to love? Well despite entering the luxury used car market at well below its remake cost at $2.32 million, it never sold.

The dealership from Alkmaar, Amsterdam, can arrange shipping worldwide.

The car went unsold in 2020 when it was originally listed – and has been relisted several times.

It was previously offered for roughly $2 million (€1,844,500).

That’s been cut to $1.6 million (€1.5 million), which doesn’t cover half the cost of the restoration cost.

Even though it’s a bargain, it looks like the 1975 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman is going to just sit there, on the website of the German dealer for a while.

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