PEH:

You have a use for burned out glow plugs? having glow plugs burn out one at a time over a couple months is a PITA, especially on the Volvo, they are hard to get at. By the way, before you trash that D24T, get you hands on a manual tranny 740 TD -- 0-60 in 8.4 sec, quite a ride!

Dieseldog:

Obviously, you've not driven a 740/760 turbo gasser. My brother-in-law was complaining about the lack of performance after I replaced the head a couple years ago (blown upper radiator nipple, just like on the Benz plastic rad), I thought is was pretty fast myself. Turned out the temp sensor for the FI was bad, I couldn't get a replacement in time to put it in for him before they went back to Fl.

With the multilink rear end I'd put them up with a W124 -- similar performance, similar ride, better seats.

Most people who buy them don't drive them very hard, though.....

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!