Last week I hit 92- speedometer only goes to 85, but the Garmin StreetPilot GPS I have attached to the dash registered 92. The car was smooth but loud. She seemed to have more power available- the accelerator was nowhere near the floor.

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James Duffey
Atlanta, GA
1963 MGB
1972 300SEL
1980 240D
1989 300SEL
1995 E300D
2000 Audi S4

I wonder what the top speed is for a 300D with manny tranny and 3.69... I have only an 85mph speedo so I'll likely never know for sure. Just like now, driving by tachometer in my 300TD.

hmm.. we just had our diesel funrun here in the philippines and we had diesel MBs from a 200D to a 300TDT

During our convoy, one of our members, as he explained it, got sleepy, on our 80KPH convoy.. so he sped up.. and overtook the lead car (a 200D euro manual). His car was a 240D Column shift, euro with ACC (Dubai i think).. sped up to 140KPH.. guess what.. the 200D was hot on its tail.. and not even smoking... we had a 240D US version with us.. and it couldnt keep up.. i was in my 300TD (euro matic)..and true enough. .the speedo was registering around 140KPH... i was suprised that a 240D can speed up so fast (A/T at that).. and more suprised that the 200D was there on its tail!... and all the while i thought a 200D was a dog to drive!...

what's my point in this thread? hehee. a member's 240D could hit 140KPH..with still some to boot!..

edit: by the way.. all cars are 123 models.

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1975 200 - Sold (no pix);
1978 200 - Sold - http://www.pbase.com/hboy/redbaron
1979 300TD - Sold
http://www.pbase.com/hboy/greenwagon
http://www.geocities.com/hboy726/300TD.html
1985 230E - now my daily driver...

Reading redbarons post gave me an idea. We could have a 240D race on public roads and not even have to worry about drawing too much attention from the highway patrol. In Texas they usually don't even blink if you're doing only 10MPH over the speed limit, and sometimes you have to be going much faster than that to get their attention.

Have a great day,

This is a regular stock 240D with 300,000 miles, going slightly downhill on the Alaska Highway:

http://homepage.mac.com/grozier/resources/100mph.html

I acheived this speed relatively frequently during that drive. It corresponds to the maximum engine speed (5,100 rpm) in top gear.

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1983 240D automatic, Orient Red, 174K
1983 240D manual, Biscayne Blue, sold at 341K

5100 rpm? I thought the redline was 4600rpm for the OM616? It it a manual or an auto?

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

Manual - the later cars may have had higher redlines?

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1983 240D automatic, Orient Red, 174K
1983 240D manual, Biscayne Blue, sold at 341K

Yeah...how can you have an "exhibition of speed" in a 240D...........thats an oxymoron if there ever was one...

Like having a stoplight drag race in one......how could you tell?

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

GAWD do i wish i still had that car...I loved that thing and I miss it a lot, I had it for 6 years

In Denver I've hit 100 with a little accelerator margin to go. Turbos rock.

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'83 240D with 617.952 and 2.88
'01 VW Beetle TDI
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD
'89 Toyota 4x4, needs 2L-T
'78 280Z with L28ET - 12.86@110
Oil Burner Kartel #35

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oD/bioclip.jpg

The Gurkha I drive has the most un aerodynamic body which weighs a hefty 1783Kg, with the OM 616 turbo, I recently touched 95mph while racing a wiseguy in the Indian version of Ford Endevour which comes with a Mazda 2.5 turbo intercooled 4 cylinder, not a bad show for an engine which is from another era, the Mazda is a 3 valves per cylinder job with all electronic doo dads and liquid cooled intercooler.

The only mods I have on my OM 616 turbo is no muffler and ram air mod to the air filter.

Somewhere between 85 and 90+. My brother cruises with the speedometer pegged on the majority of his highway trips.

81 240D Auto

You people accross the pond seem to have different Mercs. My 240 4 sp manual hit 160kph (100mph) everytime I tried and the 300D (617 non turbo) hit about 175kph (109mph). Heck, a budy of mine has a 200D stock, barely going, but can hit 140kph (87mph).

90mph?? Sorry I can't resist...

Well at least you can't get in to much trouble for speeding.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

93mph, limited by a 1:1 gear tranny and 3.69 diff.

BTW, my 240D will do 0-60 in 15.3 seconds, and 0-85 in 20 seconds.