Mercedes-Benz also increased prices? The highest is up 120,000! The most expensive year to buy a car in 2022?

Entering 2022, but quite magical, oil prices soared, No. 92 gasoline has broken 8 yuan, it seems that breaking 9 yuan is not a problem; the price of pure electric vehicle raw materials is like sitting on an airplane, nickel, lithium carbonate and other raw materials have not simply doubled, but dozens of times up, so every three to five there are pure electric vehicle brands said that we want to increase prices.

For the price increase of new energy vehicles, we can still understand, but recently Mercedes-Benz said "sorry, we are also going to increase prices", the highest increase even reached 121,000... Before commenting on this matter, we may wish to look at this specific price increase, which models have increased their prices?

CLA is the most entry-level model in the brand, but as an imported car, its price is not "close to the people" at all, it is very petty bourgeoisie. Today it starts at 299,800, and that's because... As a two-wheel drive version of the model, it has not increased in price, and the price increase is the four-wheel drive version of the model, but even if the price increases, the increase of less than 2,000 yuan is indeed "cheap".

I have to say that this Mercedes-Benz C-class coupe looks really superb! But even at the original price, it is not cheap, and the most beginner C200 coupe is only equipped with a 156 hp 1.5T engine, the face can not be hung, C 260's 184 hp 1.5T can only be said to be... Decent, sure to buy Mercedes-Benz can not be too elaborate performance, but also good this travel version did not increase the price.

There are many Mercedes-Benz E-Class involved here, including coupes, convertible coupes, and these are original standard wheelbase models. This price of 500,000+ is it worth buying? After all, you can buy a Porsche 718.

Mercedes-Benz performance versions of the AMG models have also achieved price increases, including C-class AMG, E-class AMG, GLC AMG and G-class AMG. But in fact, in terms of the proportion of price increases, this is more "conscience", a 950,000-class Mercedes-Benz E-class AMG "only" rose by 12,600, because the follow-up models rose a lot.

As the flagship sedan of the Mercedes-Benz brand (here first stop is not controversial), it has a very luxurious performance, and often refresh the luxury flagship design, on the interior of this point also have to serve Mercedes-Benz, this Mercedes-Benz S-class also made a new trick, eavesless full LCD dashboard, suspension vertical central control screen, although at first feel not elegant enough, but now it seems to be very novel. However, now we have to accept the price increase, even the lowest S 400 L business type (the original 917,200), has also risen by 29,600.

Although it is one of the flagships of mercedes-Benz SUV, but this price increase it is not very imposing, how to the lowest "rise" of 37,900? This is a full-size SUV of 1.068 million (currently priced). However, compared to the innovative design of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, this GLS is a bit conventional in comparison, making people unable to pick up the desire to buy (although there is no money to buy), Mercedes-Benz still has to replace it quickly.

Mercedes-Benz G-Class can be described as a legend of luxury hardcore SUV, with a boxy exterior and a luxurious cockpit inside, and the price is more expensive than gles, and now the G500 model has reached 1.899 million. However, it is equipped with a 4.0T dual supercharged engine, as well as a full-time four-wheel drive + three locks, and it is indeed worthy of the title of hardcore SUV ceiling. In addition, this 57,000 is not a price increase for prospective owners, anyway, the mercedes-Benz G-class guidance price really only plays a "guidance" role.

The price increase here is the Maybach version of Mercedes-Benz's two flagships, which is also the top and most luxurious model of Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach S-Class and the Maybach GLS, the former rose by 100,000 yuan, and the highest increase of the latter was 121,000 yuan. But believe me, even if you have the money to buy it, it is still the most comfortable and "cost-effective" of the Maybach S-Class.

After talking about the import part, we will also look at the domestic version of the model whose price should be more stable.

I didn't expect that the domestic version of the model with a lower price was almost the same as the imported version in terms of increase, but the price increase was all E 300 L model, equipped with a 258 hp 2.0T engine, but... This engine nameplate says "Made in China", so why is the price increased? We will explain this question later.

The GRC model of the price increase can be described as stepping on two "pits", one is a 2.0T high-power engine, the other is a four-wheel drive system, so the model involved is GLC 300 L 4MATIC, also considering the price increase, stepping on the two "pits" of it, it is not high.

The above is the price of domestic Mercedes-Benz models, such as C-class, GLA, GLB and other models are the original price, even if some use the 4MATIC system.

Therefore, we can basically summarize the reasons for this price increase - the dual impact of the epidemic and the international impact has led to the rise in international logistics prices and the price increase caused by the lack of cores.

The former, more related to the rise in energy prices, most of these imported models are made in the United States, Germany, the United States due to the intensification of the conflict to ban the import of Russian crude oil and natural gas, so that the international shipping operating costs increased, has become the highest point in 12 years.

For Mercedes-Benz, a global car company, this has formed a great obstacle to the supply of parts, and the transportation of some parts, whether it is shipping or air transportation, has inevitably "detoured" to increase transportation costs, and the Ningbo Container Freight Rate Index (NCFI) reported that some shipping companies have raised their rates in March.

The latter is the core loss crisis that has lasted for 2 years, as a luxury brand, Mercedes-Benz models use more semiconductor materials and are more susceptible to the impact of "missing cores".

It is reported that the average price of semiconductor silicon wafers will increase by more than 10% this year, and the increase in next year and the following year will only be slightly reduced, which is equivalent to the cumulative increase of 20 to 25% this year and next year, and the price will continue to rise by 5 to 10% in the next year. Japanese media pointed out that some semiconductors have been scheduled to 2024, which is enough to take 2 years.

What is even more frightening is that under the wave of electrification and new energy, the expansion rate of demand is much higher than the growth rate of supply. Traditional fuel vehicles need about 300 chips, while intelligent fuel vehicles are doubled to 500-700, and high-end intelligent electric vehicles have reached more than 2,000!

In terms of production capacity, the impact of the epidemic has led to the shutdown of some semiconductor companies, and there are also some force majeure effects. Like last month's earthquake on Japan's east coast, Renesas Electronics, the world's third-largest automotive chip maker, suspended production at three local plants.

In addition, the neon gas required for the chip has also been restricted, and the supply of neon gas in Ukraine has reached nearly 70% of the global market.

So in general, we can't blame Mercedes-Benz, which is actually the trend of the environment, after all, now pure electric vehicles should be increased in price, and there is also the impact of chips. Compared with the general brand, Mercedes-Benz, which uses more chips, naturally has to increase the price, but it is more likely to be criticized as the "first luxury brand of fuel vehicles with increased prices", and maybe the follow-up BMW and Audi will also increase prices... It can only be said that it will be more difficult for us to buy cars in the future, especially imported cars and high-end cars.