my mom called my 300D a grandpa car.. she thinks its slow and feable.. she said why couldnt i get a normal car like other 17 year olds. shes just not getting the idea a diesel isnt fast and this car weighs more than her cross over suv with 1 less cylinder in the engine

i almost bought a crown vic which is a granpa car. the benz is hardly a grandpa car i love it .

anyone else call your diesel a granpa car?

Without the turbo it would be a standard grandpa car. With the turbo, it's the grandpa-with the Hawaian shirt-white hairy chest-and gold medallian-car. After all, who do you think you're talking to here? A bunch of Grandpas.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

So does that make 240D's great grandpa cars?

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

nah.. my mom is calling it a grandpa car not me.. to me its my diesel ebnz ive always wanted.. all my friends have stupid import cars they "tune" and i use that term lightly im the only one other than a few that know how to turn a wrench.. im not into the speed im more into the restoring it and enjoying the ride. not the go fast die young mind set some people have


where do i buy those hawaian shirts and gold medalians.. jk jk

Caddy, Lincoln, and Buicks are old people's cars. I remember seeing somewhere that the average age of Buick buyers was in their mid 60s.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

When my wife and I brought our MB home. We took the kids for a drive. As they were crawling in and getting settled, the 9 year old said...

This is one of those "old people" cars.

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1999 E300DT Obsydian Black Metallic, Heated Full Leather Parchment options, E2, K2, 136,000+, best 36.5 mpg - GP's 12-04 & 11-12 Zero Stuck
2010 Honda Odyssey - The BrideMobile - best 26.5
(2) 2005 Honday Accord- (1 -Corporate 1 - Personal) - 110,000 4-cyl 30mpg
2000 VW Golf GLS TDI, Upsolute Chip (sold to Brother, now 300+k on it) 48.5 mpg like clock work
1987 Honda CRX HF - Sold 87,000 always over 50 mpg Max 67 mpg

A one or two year old Crown Vic is one of the best car buys in the country now days. They depreciate quickly over the first couple of years but if you plan to keep a car for 10 years they are a very good investment. They can get 26 mpg and are fairly reliable.

my dad is old but i dont consider his 300D a grandpa car. I see buick's, mercury's, lincolns, caddy's as grandpa cars.

If your mom wants you to be like all the other teens now a days just slap on some 20 inch chrome wheels that will get her attention.

How about the 300SD? do you guys consider those grandpa cars? With a facelift they look pretty modern to me.

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Current:
05 E320 CDI
07 GL320 CDI
08 Sprinter
05 Dodge Cummins
01 Dodge Cummins

Previous
2004 E55 AMG
2002 C32 AMG (#2)
1995 E300
1978 300D
1987 300D
2002 C32 AMG(blown motor :[
1981 300SD
1983 300SD
1987 300SDL
2002 Jetta TDI
1996 S420
1995 S500
1993 190E 2.6
1992 190E 2.3
1985 190E 2.3 5-Speed

Same here. 33 with a grandpa car, except my daughter likes to twist the knife while it is in, calling it a "grandma" car. lol


Just remember, it's all made up by being in a car lot full of newer cars, and someone telling you your 27 old car is the nicest one there.

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79 300SD - $50 out of pocket purchase
03 Dodge Ram 3500 CTD
2003 VW Jetta TDI

I've never thought of Mercedes as old-person cars.

My Lincoln Town car on the other hand...

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I was told I drive my Benz like a grandpa, my comeback was, "It's a luxury car your supposed to drive it luxouriously." That made them quite.

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W123's don't ride well enough in the city to be grandpa cars

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

If you wanted to be smart with your mom, you could've responded "Wow mom, I never knew cars were capable of reproducing, I mean, I've got a grandpa car! Where's it's grandkids, are they those E320 CDIs at the dealer?"

Today at the GTG, we got a beep from a passerby in a beautiful, black 1978-80 300SD with tinted windows and Ronal R-31s on it, I didn't get a photo of it, but it surely didn't look like a "grandpa" car to me.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=196221458&dealer_id=70543&car_year=2005&search_type=both&make=CAD&distance=0&model=DEV&address=06460&certified=&advanced=&max_price=&bkms=1141522335498&min_price=&end_year=2007&start_year=1981&isp=y&lang=en&cardist=1044

Go to a retirement village in FL, this is what the hip crowed drives!

btw who would pay $100k for that thing? Thats 07 S550 money, they must be on drugs.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I think that price is just to trick the search engine to putting their listings at the top of the search result. I'm guessing they actually want a third (or less) of that amount.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.