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Following the rise in the price of new energy vehicles, traditional car companies will also begin to raise prices. A price list of models under the Mercedes-Benz brand, including imported models and some domestic models, will increase prices from April 2, according to pictures exposed online today.

In response to the price adjustment, according to Auto House, Mercedes-Benz said: recently, due to the sharp rise in the price of some raw materials and the shortage of the global supply chain, we have adjusted the retail prices of some models on sale since April 2, 2022. Mercedes-Benz also said that consumers can consult local authorized dealers for real-time retail prices and more related information, and the final retail price is subject to the contractual agreement between the customer and the relevant dealers.

From the response of Mercedes-Benz, the main reason for the overall price increase of Mercedes-Benz is also affected by raw materials and supply chain and other factors. The price increase involves imported C-Class, E-Class, CLA, S-Class, GLS, G-Class and some Maybach and AMG models, while domestic models involve long-axle E-Class and GLC L, covering almost most of Mercedes-Benz's product line.

From the summary pictures exposed on the Internet, except for the price of the Mercedes-Benz E350e L plug-in hybrid model remains unchanged at 517600, the rest of the models have increased in varying degrees. Among them, the model with the lowest increase was the Mercedes-Benz E300L, with an increase of 900 yuan. The biggest increase was in the Mercedes-Maybach GLS 6004MATIC dress model, whose price increased by 121000 to 3.101 million from 2.98 million. Specifically, the total increase of domestic E-Class is 90-12100 yuan, only the price of plug-in hybrid models has not increased, and the price of domestic GLC has increased by 5600-5700 yuan. The prices of imported C200 and C260 sedan models increased by 4000 yuan and 4800 yuan respectively, the prices of the whole CLA series increased by 3000-3700 yuan, the imported E-level sedan cars increased by 5200-7000 yuan, the GLS sedan cars increased by 3.29-42400 yuan, and the S-class sedan cars increased by 3-57100 yuan. Maybach GLS rose 7.2-121000 yuan, Maybach S580 rose 100000 yuan, AMG C43, GLC 43 series rose 7600-9600 yuan, AMG E 53 increased 12600 yuan, AMG G 63 increased 76000 yuan.

The auto industry has learned from the Mercedes-Benz official website that some models on the Mercedes-Benz official website have been updated, and the prices of most models are in line with the above-mentioned price increases. At present, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Mercedes-Benz G-Class and other models have been updated to the price after the price increase. Among them, the price of Mercedes-Benz S-Class increased by 29600 yuan, of which the Mercedes-Benz S 400L business model rose by 29600 yuan, the luxury model of Mercedes-Benz S 400L rose by 34500 yuan, starting from 1.0728 million yuan after price adjustment, the price of Mercedes-Benz S 450 L increased by 37300 yuan, starting from 1.2168 million yuan after price adjustment, and the price of Mercedes-Benz S 450L 4MATIC increased by 40,500 yuan, starting from 1.278 million yuan after price adjustment. Mercedes-Benz S 500L 4MATIC rose 57700 yuan, starting from 1.8388 million yuan after price adjustment.

In addition, Maybach S-class prices have also increased, but only for Maybach S 580 4MATIC model, the price increase of 100000 yuan, after price adjustment from 2.488 million yuan.

In addition, Mercedes-Benz's official website has also updated the G-class model and the price, of which the price of the G500 model has been raised to 1.899 million yuan and that of the AMG G 63 model to 2.554 million yuan. The G 350 model has been removed from the official website, Mercedes-Benz G 350 model is an entry-level model launched in the domestic market, equipped with 2.0T engine.

In fact, this price increase is the second time that Mercedes-Benz has raised its price this year. The last price increase was in January this year. Data show that Mercedes-Benz, as one of the best-selling luxury brands in China, has nearly 20 models.

In terms of sales volume, the data show that Mercedes-Benz Group sold 2.33 million vehicles worldwide in 2021, of which 759000 were sold in China, including 561000 in Beijing and 32000 in Fujian, making it the largest single market for Mercedes-Benz in the world. However, Mercedes-Benz Group's global delivery volume has declined, after Mercedes-Benz said that the decline in Mercedes-Benz sales for the whole of 2021 was mainly due to a shortage of chips that froze production.

According to the latest data released by the Federation of passengers, Mercedes-Benz sold 100036 vehicles from January to February this year, of which Mercedes-Benz GLC ranked first among Mercedes-Benz sales in February, 9346 in Mercedes-Benz E-Class and 8058 in Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

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