Originally Posted by JustPassinThru

I drove my late, great "deer departed" '85 300D on an SVO blend for 28,000 miles unmodified with nary a hitch, except once when the engine overheated (not the fuel's fault, the thermostat and water pump decided to both die within 500 miles of each other). My commute is 500 miles a week, so 80-cents-a-gallon fuel is a powerful incentive.