I was doing some reading on Wikipedia.org... I do that some times when I'm bored. just for the fun of it in enterd "mercedes diesel" that lead me on a series of links and it ended with me reading the history of the w124. at the bottom of the page it said that the w124 was sill built in Korea... I couldn't belive it. but yep here it is.

http://www.drive.com.au/editorial/article.aspx?id=9606&vf=1

yea intelligent had a fancy over that one and was looking into shipping once over somehow but i think that idea faultered because many of us punched holes through his idea ... the legallity issues the maintence the smog crap etc etc