As far as automatic transmissions go, it's a good one, and as far as I know is original at 306,000 miles. But it's still an automatic, so it's still a POS. I prefer manual transmissions at all times and under all circumstances. I massively prefer my 240D for around town driving BECAUSE it's a manual.

I used to occasionally drive on a road called ASR Uranium and it had enough potholes, IED holes, and just plain bad spots that speed ranged from a crawl to 30 mph or so and back several times each mile for over 30 miles. I did it driving an 8LL Roadranger (eight regular forward gears plus low and low-low), and even having to hit every gear from 2nd to 6th multiple times every mile, I'd take it over a slush.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.