The ones that were imported by MBUSA were the top of the line with all the gadgets available. Most European models are much more basic, at least they were in the seventies and eighties.

When I grew up Mercedes had a very stuffy image back in Holland, my German ex girlfriend didn't want a 300TD because that was the car the milkman would deliver the milk with

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).