Topic: W116 registration statistics from Germany

[ptashek]

Gotta love how easy the German KBA makes to compile these. So there you go, German registered W116s as of January 2019:

280 SE,SEL   3,868
350 SE,SEL   674
450 SE,SEL   685
450 SEL 6.9   207 <--- 

Compiled using:

Registration stats (in MS Excel format) - https://www.kba.de/SharedDocs/Publikationen/DE/Statistik/Fahrzeuge/FZ/2019/fz6_2019_xlsx.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile&v=5
Designated manufacturer/type identifiers (in PDF format) - https://www.kba.de/SharedDocs/Publikationen/DE/Fahrzeugtechnik/SV/sv42_pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=9

[UTn_boy]

Those are impressive figures considering how costly it is to own/drive/register classic cars in Germany. 

[marku]

Interesting that there are so many compared with here. Last time I looked there were only 17 450SEs on the road but then the 116 has never been very popular it has always been the SLs that had the big following.

[ptashek]

How costly it is to own/drive/register classic cars in Germany.

I must disagree.Tax and insurance for classics are   very affordable,  and parts prices are some of the lowest within the EU.