um... its just my two cents ....
but before we had MB's... we had GM's...
'82 caprice coupe
'83 Olds (delta?) Diesel.
'84 LeSabre
'87 Regal T Type
(still have 52,000 fair weather miles later)
'90 Cad. Deville
'96 Cutlass LSS
'98 Deville Concourse
'00 Bonneville SSEI
'03 Suburban
out of that entire list... guess which one of them my parents didn't have the patience to run into the ground and traded in 1 year and 3 transmissions later???
the rest of the cars have well... stayed around, or been driven into the ground...
avoid the diesels... "a leak here and there is the least of your worries"
I remember when i got my 240D... my dad told me it felt like the same amount of power as the Olds... (scarry )