JIm B+ said it right, they are at different ends of the same continium. I bet alot of 240D owners had VW's in their early years. The '74 Sun Bug was the last one I had. 'Bought it new for $2900. I loved the corduroy seats with brown tex on the side that felt like leather. I took it cross country twice, the odometer stopped working at 83,000. I never had to do anything except change the oil, points and plugs. In 1980 when I went to grad school in Phila, someone stole it and stripped it. The cops found it in the worse of Philadelphia neighborhoods and told be I had to move it! I remember going there at sundown on a rainy night with my wife. Scarry as hell, it looked like it was raped and my lady couldn't understand why I was taking time to close the sunroof. I loved that car, must have had 200,000 miles on it and I was going to keep it forever. I ending up selling it to $75 to a junkyard. Then I graduated to a 1965 911 Porsche which in the 911's first year alot of the parts when interchangable.

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85 300CD Signal Red/Tan sold
83 300D Manganese Brown 109K
97 E420 Midnight Blue 197K sold
98 BMW 328i Vert White 100K, sold
95 BMW 525i White 125K, sold
93 BMW 525iT Red 193K, sold
95 E320 Green Wagon 125K, sold
94 E320 White 127K, sold
85 300SD 156K Grey (Annie), sold
84 300D Lapis Blue 170K (Judy), sold
99 ML 320 Black (lease), 1998 C230 White (lease)
00 Honda S2000 Red (lease)
86 Mercedes 300E (sold)
84 Porsche 911 Red (sold), 1965 Porsche 911 White (sold)