Mercedes-Benz 516

Hatchback and wagon, on the road in 2011.

Body types Hatchback Wagon

Also on record as Bus Truck Van

💎 Rare find

2011
Registered: 2 countries
On the road in: Top 80%
Worldwide popularity: #1181
in Spain

Popular in

Rank in each official register

#1181

#2778

🇪🇸es 🇳🇱nl

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Canonical id car/mercedes-benz/516 · dataset 2026.11.9, CC-BY 4.0, from real registration and fleet counts.

On the record

Where the Mercedes-Benz 516 is on the road, and since when, from each country's official register.

Where it's been spotted

Netherlands #2778 Spain #1181

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register, with the model's rank there where the register counts it. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Mercedes-Benz 516 on record. A last year of 2026 is the newest year in the data, not the year the model ended.

Netherlands: 2009–2013; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Registrations

Netherlands: surviving fleet by first-registration year: on record 2009–2013

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{
  "id": "car/mercedes-benz/516",
  "name": "516",
  "make": {
    "id": "mercedes-benz",
    "name": "Mercedes-Benz"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "hatchback",
  "availability": [
    "es",
    "nl"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "eu"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 8,
    "mass_decile": 8,
    "rarity": "rare"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [],
  "years": null,
  "registration_years": {
    "first": 2011,
    "last": 2011
  },
  "era": null,
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.11.9",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.11.9"
  }
}

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One row of vehicles.csv

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kind: car
make_slug: mercedes-benz
make_name: Mercedes-Benz
model_slug: 516
model_name: 516
body_types: hatchback|wagon
countries: es|nl
regions: eu
global_popularity_decile: 8
mass_popularity_decile: 8
aliases: ∅
former_ids: ∅