Description
• First Registered 1st December 2007.
• First sold new to Japan.
• Imported from Japan in late June 2025. Only been here for a few weeks.
• MOT valid until 25th June 2026 – full pass, no advisories.
• 30, 678 miles showing on MOT test and now on 31, 225 miles.
• Service stickers visible in photos on the door jambs, as is common usage in Japan, and comes with the Japanese written service pack and books.
• Export certificate.
• V5C in vendor’s name.
• HPI clear.
• Fully undersealed / waxoyled upon import.
• Two keys.
• Currently in dry storage on a trickle charger. Points to note:
• This is the facelift 2007 model, with the eyebrows above the front headlamps. This is very important and signals many engineering improvements above the original W211 model dating from 2003.
• Road Tax – very few E350 petrol were sold direct into the UK market in period, because the road tax duty was the same as the big V8 E500 (i. e. huge) and this was still very much the diesel era. However, because this is an import, the flat rate road tax of £360 per year is charged on this car, not the £798 that would be chargeable now to the same identical car, if it was an original UK supplied car. That’s about £4, 300 saving on UK road tax in the coming decade of ownership.
• This V6 petrol produces about 275 bhp – that’s noticeably close to the 302 bhp the 5. 0 litre V8 was producing on the first of the W211 models. You get effectively 90% of the punch of the V8 but with massively lower road tax, way better economy, and a lighter front end. In addition, there is no air suspension that comes as standard on the V8’s. This has standard coils at the front & the same rear semi-air system as fitted to all merc estates until the V8 model.
• This smooth quiet V6 petrol is low maintenance. Diesels were popular in period, but aging now requires turbo, wastegate, glow plugs, DPF maintenance etc. None of this applies to this petrol vehicle.
• Balancer shaft – you may read that there is a notorious problem with faulty balancer shafts of the V6 petrol model. That’s true until engine number 2729.. 30 468933, thereafter the problem was sorted and a harder metal was used. Naturally, this is dated well after the problem.
• The speedo fully reads MPH using the digital display, and mileage is recorded in UK miles (see photos).
• This is a German built, full RHD, European/ UK spec car with all the toys that just happens to have been delivered to the Japanese market. To my knowledge there isn’t another W211 with the V6 E350 petrol engine for sale anywhere in the country that approaches this on mileage and condition. These are the last of the Mercs with a softer interior, and an absence of the later “helpful technology” that is mandatory on modern cars.
• The car feels like its a year old. The headlight switch still ‘clicks’ noticeably. The brakes respond to the lightest touch; the circular air conditioning switches still toggle in stages and click properly.
• Many expensive extras from period, including sunroof, 4 zone climate, electric tailgate, heated seats, memory seats both sides, storage boxes, JPY mats etc, 6 CD changer, minidisc player (!) etc.
• The lowest mileage W211 estate in the country.
• Private gallery of 50 Hi-Def photos available.
• Insurance - no premium at all for a JPY vehicle from providers like Churchill.
• 34 MPG motorway, 28 locally. E10 fuel no problem.
• It literally drives like new. An almost £50K car when new, 18 years ago! Those that know what these cars are…’know’.
