Category: Enthusiast Unicorns – CarMax Bargains (Under $35,000)

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Quick Hit – 2013 Mercedes SL65 AMG! (And Other Excuses On Lack of Blogging Last Month)

We’ll get to this spectacular 2013 Mercedes SL65 AMG unicorn in just a moment. First I owe you an explanation on the total silence on this page for the past month. There is no truth to the rumor the CarMax Unicorn Blog management furloughed me for being a slacker, although I am. The truth is a combination of factors interfered with blogging, and I do intend to write a few pieces on these challenges. First, the new CarMax app on my phone and tablet are very difficult to sift through for unicorns, so much that I complained and CarMax reached out to me to discuss. I owe you a piece on that. Second, I did a fantastic long distance road trip in late May, and I owe you a piece on that. Third, I’m very close to closing a deal on my SUV unicorn, and I owe you a piece on that. I also had drinks with blog reader and car guy Scott about his most recent MaxCare repair on his Jaguar XJ, and I owe you a piece on that. So we got lots in the hopper and will try to pump out the above, and track unicorns more better and more faster. Speaking of which, check out the SL65!

This 2013 Mercedes SL65 AMG was spotted by Hans, who may or may not be in the hunt for it. I can tell you it’s in the process of being shipped from Raleigh to another dealership in North Carolina. The two attributes that jump out at me right away are, of course, the V-12 power plant, and it once sold for over $214,000. All of the Mercedes owner pages suggest they were sent to the USA in limited numbers – maybe only a few hundred a year, but I cannot find how many with any authority. If you find a source let me know.

The interior is roomy and plush like an SL, and has the air scarf neck heater, the Magic Sky Control moonroof – pretty neat in a hard top convertible, Bang & Olufsen audio, seat massagers, adaptive cruise control, lane departure and blind spot warnings, and even a rear view camera! Lots of carbon fiber trim as well. But it’s the hand built, 6.0 liter V-12 below that sets the SL65 apart from the SL550 or even the SL63. The SL65 pumps 621 hp and 738 lb-ft of torque at only 2300 RPM. The convertible hits 60 mph in 3.7 seconds and maxes out at a governor limited 186 mph. Brutal performance for a luxury convertible. That said, this Car and Driver review points out it ain’t any faster than the $60,000 cheaper SL63. But it’s a V-12!

You can track this 2013 Mercedes SL65 with this link, or by the stock number or VIN on the CarMax website. It does show one accident (left rear) with the one owner in Raleigh, and it does have relatively low mileage. As with any high end AMG it seems a no brainer that MaxCare will pay for itself and is highly recommended. Honestly, if it comes back on the market I may need to trade up from my M3!

Stock: 24377158 VIN: WDDJK7KA8DF016954

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Quick Hit – 2014 BMW X6M² Unicorns

The only thing better than a cheap 500+ horsepower M-series SUV are TWO of these unicorns. It’s the third one that’s passed through CarMax in the last month but the third sold. Hence the X6M². Get it? Both of these are 2014 models, identical in performance but with one slightly better equipped. Both were once $95,000 brand new purchases and almost a decade later are to be had for the mid-$30k range. Why not by one for you and one for the spouse?!

The first one has a little higher mileage at 53,000, and costs $2,000 more, but has heated and air conditioned seats, rear sunshade, heads up display, and heated steering wheel. Both have navigation, AWD, rear view cameras, adjustable suspensions, and monster motors.

The 4.4 liter, twin turbo V-8 below makes a whopping 550 horsepower, and the six-speed automatic pulls this 5,200 lb SUV to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds. Damned fast for an SUV “coupe”.

This 2014 BMW X6M is selling for $38,998 and is available here in Houston. It’s a two-owner, accident free car that’s spent its entire life in Texas.

Stock No: 23862344 VIN: 5YMGZ0C51E0C40641

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Quick Hit – Another 1 of 500 Alpina B7 Unicorns – $27,998

Almost a month ago we had a black 2012 Alpina B7 unicorn sell here in Rochester, New York, and now we have a nearly identical silver one for sale in Florida (it’s currently being transferred to Clearwater for a test drive). This one, though, has 5,000 less miles and costs $7,000 less. Selling for $27,998. As far as I can tell BMW imported maybe 500 of these annually to the USA at a price well north of $100,000. Here’s your chance to snag a rare Alpina for less than a Camry, and protect yourself with MaxCare for another five years and 70,000 miles.

I think this B7 brings me to 8-10 spotted in the CarMax inventory since I started the blog in 2017. Most were 2011-2012, although a few years ago we had a pair of 2014’s on the lot at the same time. Starting to think if you showed at Cars and Coffee and someone else did too, you’d both have CarMax logos on the trunk. Speaking of which, not a fan of the “Alpina” or “B7” font. Looks like stick ons from Amazon. At least it doesn’t have Chris Bangle’s bubble butt from bygone days.

The Alpina B7 is conservative and nearly indistinguishable from a regular BMW 750. A logo on the heated steering wheel and embedded in the dashboard display but not much else. The B7 has heated, air conditioned, and massaging seats, heads up display, lane departure and blind spot alerts, and of course, night vision assist. No adaptive cruise control, though.

The B7 also has rear DVD entertainment, even if it looks like the original Apple Macintosh from 1984.

Just like last month’s 2012, the 4.4 liter twin-turbo V-8 motor is good for 500 horsepower and with just a six-speed automatic and AWD pulls the car to 60 in 4.5 seconds. It wasn’t until 2013 that B7’s came to the USA with the 540hp motor pulling the big B7 to a 194 mph top end.

This 2012 Alpina B7 is an accident free, two-owner car. Oddly, when I looked at the history I see that the car was first owned here in Fairfax, Virginia a few miles from where I’m sitting, and the second owner had it in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where I first lived when I returned to Maryland many years ago. The B7 registration was renewed a year ago today in Maryland. It surfaced a few weeks ago (thank you, Hans) at CarMax and has been on and off the market in Florida. You can track it with this link here or search by the stock number or VIN below.

Stock No. 23559197 VIN WBAKA8C58CC446974

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Very Quick Hit – 2 (More) of 248, 2011 Mercury Grand Marquis LS.

I’ve lost count of how many 2011 Mercury Grand Marquis LS unicorns that have passed through this blog but I do know the first remains the car with the highest single day views ever. Not what I intended when I started the blog. It’s what the people want? There were only 248 of these Mercuries produced in 2011, its final year, but I don’t think it’s the limited numbers that interests drivers. It’s the land yacht comfort and old school highway cruising in a reliable Ford Panther platform.

I’m writing from a hotel room in White Marsh, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore where I’m awaiting the arrival of my oldest son to take in the Baltimore Orioles home opener. This car is at the White Marsh CarMax no more than two miles from my room. I could walk there and drive back in this before the first pitch.

With bench seats, a column shifter, adjustable pedals, a CD player AND a cassette deck with Dolby Noise Reduction, this car rates a “9” out of 10 for features by CarMax, and maybe that was true in 2011. It’s pretty basic. But it is a pretty blue over tan and I’m sure it’s quite a smooth ride down I-95 to Miami.

Back seat is jut right for your kids to make out in.

The trunk gigantic enough for snitches.

Popularity can’t be because of the 4.6 liter V-8, making 224 horsepower and yet 275 ft-lbs of torque. I’m told it’s adequate to not get squeezed out on interstate merges but not much more. It will get 24 mpg on the highway.

This is a one-owner, accident free car that’s spent all of the last dozen years right here in Essex, Maryland. It’s still eligible for MaxCare for five more years and up to 150,000 miles. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the cheapest MaxCare package out there.

Stock No. 24128280 VIN 2MEBM7FV1BX605625

If you really want one of these with lower miles, and aren’t afraid to tempt fate, the five-owner white over tan 2011 Grand Marquis below has only 38,000 miles on it. But they were not an easy 38,000 miles. The car hit the dealer lot in August 2010, and by the fall of 2010, brand new, and within a period of two months, the car was hit three times! Then hit again in 2012 and again in 2016! It’s currently reserved in Huntsville, Alabama here, and is selling for $19,998. What are the odds it has any more accidents in it?

Stock No. 23377703 VIN 2MEBM7FV5BX601884

Below are a pair of 2011 Grand Marquis that were in my “saved” file and just sold. They’re flying off the shelves!!

Here’s some of the old ones:

May 5, 2022 2011 Grand Marquis LS

May 24, 2020 2011 Grand Marquis LS

March 5, 2018 2011 Grand Marquis LS

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So The Last Shall Be First, And The First Last: A Pair of First and Last Year Chevrolet SS Sedans From Down Under

Not above plagiarizing Matthew for a headline. My other choice was a miserable one from Victor Hugo; “Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.“* The “thousand things” could mean the 12,953 Holden unicorns made in Australia and imported by General Motors as Chevrolet SS sleepers from 2014 to 2017.

This one is a 2017 Chevrolet SS, the final year, with only 29,000 miles on it. The 2017 SS listed at about $48,000, but Chevrolet never moved these off the lots as quickly as they moved from stoplights, and offered deep discounts – up to 20% in many cases – to reduce inventory. Snatching one of these in 2017 for $38,000 would have been a helluva deal, especially since as a modern, collector car it’s now selling at MSRP! Unfortunately, it’s not the more coveted manual transmission like this rare pair offered by CarMax two years ago.

The 2017 Chevrolet SS is listed as a “10” for features by CarMax, and yet for a six year old car it’s lacking more than a few. Heated and air conditioned seats, automated parking, heads up display, cross traffic alert, and a decent Bose sound system yes. But no adaptive cruise control, Apple CarPlay, or heated steering wheel. What it has is a massive 6.2 liter LS3 naturally aspirated V-8 motor that makes 415 horsepower driving the rear wheels. That’s not a ton, but it moves this car to 60 mph in the mid-four second range. And it sounds awesome doing so. I drove one a few years ago and it had the same visceral oomph and roar of old time muscle cars. The SS also has (from 2015 on) GM’s Magnetic Ride Control suspension and handles quite well – .94 lateral g on the skid pad.

This 2017 Chevrolet SS has spent its whole life in Florida with one owner and is available here in Tampa. It’s actually gray over black, making all the pix look like they’re in black and white. It’s an accident free car and eligible for MaxCare up to 150,000 miles and five years. I don’t think I’d bother at all.

Stock No. 24071876 VIN 6G3F15RW9HL303934

What follows also looks like the same car in black and white pictures but it is not. This is a green over black Chevrolet SS – a first year model from 2014. It’s outfitted almost identically to the 2017 above, although as noted does not have the magnetic suspension. It’s also $4,000 less than the 2017 and has only 18,000 miles.

IMHO the 2014 green exterior, although subtle, has a nicer tone than the drab gray of the 2017.

What kept me from buying one way back when? If you’re a regular reader you would know it’s my vanity. I was okay having a Mercedes S-class that concealed its V-12 motor and yet having to explain over and over my Chevrolet came from Australia and really wasn’t a Malibu is beyond me. It looks pretty plain. The 2014 had a big pair of exhaust outlets and by 2017 the car got four, smaller pipes. Beyond that I’d be hard pressed to tell the difference.

All of the SS’s had plenty of room in the back seat and in the trunk to be a legitimate family hauler or road tripper. And on road trips the car gets up to 22 mpg highway. I’ve had worse.

This 2014 Chevrolet SS was a two-owner from Kansas and Lubbock, and is currently being transferred to San Antonio, Texas but you can track it here. Same MaxCare warranty options as the 2017, although always remarkable that it would still be covered when it’s 14 years old!

Stock No. 23712976 VIN 6G3F15RW1EL938447

*The full quote makes me want to end it all.

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute…All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road…and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us. ”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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Quick Hit – 2012 Alpina B7; A Real Unicorn

Enough econohatch faux unicorns. Getting back to something legitimately rare, high performance, highly depreciated, and a MaxCare must. A 2012 Alpina B7 sleeper. (Pardon any clunky formatting – doing this by phone at the airport to get it posted before it disappears!)

Not the first B7 we’ve spotted at CarMax (thanks Mustafa!) and yet always pleasantly surprised when these unusual cars are offered. Only 1,740 F01 models from 2011-2015 were imported.

Alpina modifications are subtle inside and out and the big BMW could easily pass for a 750. But Alpina makes the motors and ships them to BMW for installation, then the whole kit and caboodle returns to Alpina for final installation and suspension work.

The Alpina B7 is nicely equipped (for 2012) with heated, air conditioned, and massaging seats, heads up display, heated steering wheel, and even night vision assist. It does not list adaptive cruise control and when I get back will try to run the VIN. Would be surprised if it’s not there. Even has what looks like a vintage rear seat video system!

The 4.4 liter twin-turbo V-8 motor is good for 500 horsepower and with just a six-speed automatic and AWD pulls the car to 60 in 4.5 seconds. Plenty fast. This accident free, two-owner Ohio car sold new for maybe $125,000 eleven years ago and is only $33,998 now. MaxCare is probably not cheap and is definitely necessary. Can’t imagine repairs are cheap. Find it here in Rochester, New York.

https://www.carmax.com/car/23421485?utm_campaign=AppShareiOSShareCar&utm_source=AppShareiOS&utm_medium=AppShareiOS

Stock No. 23421485

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How Rare Was the 2011 Eclipse Season? Very. Here’s Two.

A dozen years ago the stars aligned for a somewhat rare four solar and two lunar eclipses. There will only be six years like it this century. The first of those was 2011. It was also the final year for the Mitsubishi Eclipse sports coupe that had been in production for a dozen years. Coincidence? I think not. Fortunately for us CarMax has unearthed and preserved a nearly new pair of these extinct unicorns. May not be the greatest sports coupe on the road, but you won’t see a lot of them in orbit. And like most cars of questionable enthusiast interest, there are several forums and Facebook groups with thousands of owners who are passionate about their Eclipses. I swear if you think about the worst car you ever owned, there is a car club with a Facebook page of fans for that car. That said, these are the first Eclipses I’ve ever written about. That’s rare.

This 2011 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS model is a single-owner, 16,000 mile car with a coveted manual transmission. The five-speed for sure makes the car more fun to drive, despite the limited 162 horsepower from the 2.4 liter four cylinder. On one hand, this is the company that brought us the Sapporo, Starion, and 3000GT – all cars I kinda liked. On the other they have largely gotten out of the car business and now sell the Eclipse as a small cute-ute crossover. If you really REALLY want to read some good automotive writing on the downside of a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, try this hilarious piece by Jack Baruth in The Truth About Cars, He hates the convertible GS he drove and his review included such prose as “let me tell you what else is a bad idea: driving a convertible top-down through LA with a passenger who is both drunk and fluent in Spanish.”

The car is pristine inside. It’s certainly clean and unencumbered by options. It gets a “3” on CarMax’s Features and Specs scale – with a upbeat note the rating describes a car with “The Basics – More potential savings with more basic features.” (FWIW – here’s a link to a 2011 Hyundai Accent GL that gets a “1”) The Eclipse GS has cruise control, an aux jack and CD player, and air conditioning. Did I mention it’s clean? On the plus side, front seat leg room is an expansive 42″ – more than a Mercedes S-class.

Honestly, the car would make a fun little daily for someone’s first manual transmission car. Yeah it would be more fun if it were the 265 horsepower six cylinder GT….but at least you get 28 mpg on the highway! The car sold new for about what it’s selling for now, and it’s available now here in Baltimore, Maryland. And if for some reason you thought it necessary to protect this car from unlikely repairs, MaxCare is good for up to 150,000 miles or until 2028 – right before the next six-eclipse year!

Stock No. 23191938 VIN 4A31K5DF9BE004545

Sticking with my lunar (lunacy?) thinking, today is the beginning of the spring equinox and according to the poet Alfred Tennyson the time when young men think of love…and convertibles. Personally, I think everyone should own a convertible at some point in their life. Been fortunate enough to own three over the years. Nothing like the wind through the hair on a spring drive. Get a drop top before it represents a sunburn through a receding hairline. Trust me.

Anyway, if you want a convertible Mitsubishi Eclipse much like the one Baruth skewered, here’s another 2011 model with only 18,000 miles. It’s an automatic, though, so lower your enthusiasm a bit. But it’s a nice triple black unmolested little runabout with a convertible top for young lovers motoring to….wherever young lovers motor to nowadays. It’s $3,000 more to trade the manual for the convertible, but wait! There’s more!

You were wondering what the GS Sport offers over the plain old GS model, and unlike the basic hardtop configuration the droptop is rated an “8” – loaded with features! For 2011 in this class, that means it has leather heated seats, adjustable lumbar support, and a rear view camera. AND a Rockford Fosgate sound system. Baruth said his wasn’t bad, targeting the “critical retired-minitruckers-who-remember-the-Punch-45-amplifier demographic“. No idea what that means but I liked it. I suspect the Rockford Fosgate amp would offset any buzz from the same 2.4 liter four cylinder with the top down.

The 2011 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS Sport sold for almost $30,000 – much more than the “basic” GS. This convertible is available here for a third less in sunny Doral, Florida, where the one owner has v=been driving it very little up and down the A1A. Oddly, Doral is where I am headed this week to drive a tempting Mercedes SUV. Maybe I can work a twofer deal?

Stock No. 23842928 VIN 4A37L5EF5BE002054

DETAILED SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON FOLLOWS. (NOT REALLY)

The GT convertible (above left) comes with a subwoofer smack dab in the center of the rear seat. Baruth noted “the subwoofer mounted between the negligible rear seats seemed inadequately protected and quite prone to being poked with pencils, pens, broken bongs, shivs, and the other accoutrements of the modern Mitsubishi buyer, who is primarily identifiable by his sub-600 credit rating and fondness for the music of “Sublime”.“

And finally, note the mostly useless trunk on the GS Sport convertible (above left) compared to the not-too-bad hatchback with a deck lid trunk in the hardtop. Then again. we really don’t buy convertibles for long distance luggage.

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Quick Hit – Another “Hot” Volvo C30 T5 R-Design 6MT

Seems like every two years there’s one of these quirky Volvo C30 T5 R-Design unicorns with the somewhat rare (and fun) manual transmission at CarMax, and here’s another one. Wrote about this one in 2019 priced at $13,599 with 88,000 miles, and this one in 2021 with 50,000 miles at $18,998. Hard to tell anymore what’s a fair price for used cars. These little guys were sold in the USA from 2007 to 2013.

The C30 T5 R-Design got uneven reviews when new but over the years gained a loyal following and in 2020 hotcars.com considered it a “hot hatch” with some nostalgia, although the six second 0-60 mph time hardly makes it hot. I asked my colleague and more knowledgeable auto enthusiast Chad Jeepty what was so special about the manual C30 T5 R, and he noted, “The 2012 Volvo C30 T5 R-Design with a manual transmission was a special edition model only available in limited numbers. The R-Design version of the C30 was already a sportier and more performance-oriented variant of the car, but the addition of the manual transmission made it even more appealing to driving enthusiasts.”

The manual transmission version of the C30 T5 R-Design was powered by a turbocharged 2.5-liter inline-five engine that produced 227 horsepower and 236 lb-ft of torque. This powertrain was mated to a six-speed manual transmission, which provided a more engaging driving experience compared to the standard automatic transmission. This car has seat heaters, BlueTooth and navigation and gets a “9” (out of 10) rating for features by CarMax, noting it is “loaded” and that baffled me. Dug deeper and CarMax’s definition of loaded is “8-10 Loaded – More premium features than other cars like it.” Pretty scientific if you ask me.

This 2012 Volvo C30 T5R is here in Puyallup, Washington, although I just got an update that it’s out for a test drive. MaxCare is available up to 125,000 miles but only 48 months. Not sure I’d bother – pretty reliable car.

Stock No. 23578885 VIN YV1672MK0C2284519

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Quick Hit – Ultra Low Mileage 2013 Mercedes Benz SLK55 AMG.

Relieved that this 2013 Mercedes SLK55 AMG unicorn just became available. Allows me to make amends to blog reader Ken who reminded me there is another naturally aspirated AMG powerplant (in addition to the M156 I gushed about here) – the M152 variant of the M157, found in the SLK55. Ken was lucky enough to score a 2014 SLK55 from the original owner with only 22,000 kms (13,000 miles) on it. That’s right up there with this 2013 model with only 8,182 miles. Amazing only 800+ miles a year for the last 10!

The SLK55 is moderately equipped with seat heaters and the wonderful Air Scarf neck heaters, but not much else. Bluetooth, a Harman Kardon audio system and even a CD player. It is a gorgeous red color and a quick-dropping hard top convertible. I’ve had a soft top convertible (1971 Fiat 124 and a 2002 BMW 330CIC) and a hard top convertible (2013 BMW M3) and don’t think I could daily a soft top anymore.

The M152 motor is a 5.5 liter V-8 – the same block as I understand it as the twin-turbo, intercooled M157 found in the 63’s once Mercedes (as everyone did) stopped deriving their car models from the engine displacement – sans the turbos and intercoolers. Just a deep breathing V-8 that makes 415 horsepower and moves this little convertible to 60 mph in the low four second range. And hit 28 mpg on the highway.

This is a two-owner California car that sold new a decade ago for perhaps $75,000. Seems like an almost new bargain at $41,998 and MaxCare is available for another 117,000 miles and five years. Find it here in Fremont, California.

Stock No. 23584985 VIN WDDPK7FA6DF051321

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Quick Hit – Naturally Aspirated Mercedes C63 AMG’s

Blog reader and CarMax sniper Hans sent me this beautiful red 2013 Mercedes C63 AMG unicorn weeks ago, and prompted me to start a massive piece on the four naturally aspirated C63’s that were available at a wide range of prices on CarMax. Hans got me interested in these C63’s because they are powered by the 6.2 liter M156 V-8 motors – the first motor completely designed by Mercedes-AMG and put into use across the AMG line of cars in 2006, and went extinct in the 2015 C63. I had one in the 2010 Mercedes E63 I bought from CarMax and owned for….almost 48 hours. Sigh. It’s a legendary powerplant that pumped 451 horsepower in the C63 and 507 in the other AMG applications (also 507 hp in the 2015 C63 AMG 507. Covered one here!). It’s not without issues, and that’s why there’s MaxCare! Here’s a video that reviews the motor at great length.

The red one above was listed at a Bargain $33,998 and unfortunately sold in St. Louis before I could put this piece to bed. I’ve added the tracking info on it below anyway since it’s still viewable on the CarMax website if you search on the Stock Number 23596085, the VIN WDDGJ7HB3DF988796 or the link here. Good to have in case it gets returned. One sold, three to go.

Next was the 2014 C63 AMG above with only 40,000 miles selling for a whopping $48,998 (Stock Number 22863815 VIN WDDGJ7HB1EG305862). Sadly, it sold also this week. The link to it is here, again if you want to look at it more closely or track it should it be returned. For what it’s worth, by keeping stock numbers and VIN’s I’ve been able to verify vehicles returned or traded in months or years later. Somehow that fascinates me.

Let’s get to the two that are still available as of this writing, the better of the two being the bargain 2013 Mercedes C63 AMG below. I take it back – it’s mostly available in that as of today it is being shipped to Kearny Mesa, California. It’s been on hold several times in California over the past few weeks so it may become available again.

This 2013 model has only 25,000 miles on it – a silly 2,500 miles per year. It’s a two owner car and accumulated 14,000 miles in the first two years, 10,000 more in the next four, and almost none in the last four years. Accident free car.

Not much in the way of creature comforts or high-end features in the C63. Rear view camera, heated seats, blind spot monitor and lane departure warning, panoramic sunroof, Bluetooth, and Harman Kardon audio. Hell, just today I noticed my wife’s 2022 Kia Sportage has a Harman Kardon audio system so not sure that’s a selling point (or Kia has gone upscale?).

Had to add a picture of the monster motor below. Coupled with the seven-speed automatic transmission the circa 4,000 lb rear wheel drive coupe runs to 60 mph in only 4.5 seconds. It was governor limited to 155 mph I believe. It’s actually 6.2 liters but Mercedes stuck with the 63 naming back then – a 63 now is generally a 5.5 liter twin turbo V-8.

This 2013 Mercedes C63 AMG sold for well over $60,000 new and is being offered by CarMax for $39,998. Almost in my original unicorn price range! Here’s the link to it for tracking, and the stock number and VIN are below. But wait! There’s one more C63 with an M156 out there and it’s not sold, reserved, or shipping (just yet)!

Stock No. 23556866 VIN WDDGJ7HB8DG116446

The C63 below looks a whole lot like the ones above but differs in that…..it’s a 2014 model AND it is unencumbered by transport or sale – totally available if you can’t wait for the $39,998 2013 bargain. This 2014 is selling for $44,998 and has more miles – 42,000 – than the 2013 selling for less.

The only advantage I see, other than the year newer, is that this 2014 has adaptive cruise control. I really, really like adaptive cruise for road trips. Otherwise it’s similarly equipped to all the others.

This 2014 Mercedes C63 AMG is a four-owner, accident free car that’s spent its whole life in Texas, where it is now. Find it here in Houston.

Stock No. 23813322 VIN WDDGJ7HB6EG316209

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