Ok, guy locally has an 85 300D for sale, Among the questions I asked was how the turbo was, and he replied it has no turbo and I look at the picture he sent me and it's got Euro bumpers on it.. hummmm... So was the 300 avalible in europe w/o a turbo?

Gonna go look at it saterday, mmmm euro spec

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2003 VW Passat GLS 1.8t wagon 73k mi
1998 Dodge Dakota Sport 228k mi
1974 VW Karmann Ghia Coupe 74k mi (for sale)

Yep; I had a EURO 85' 300D without the turbo on it. It was a pretty good car, nowhere near as fast as the ones with the turbos (alsmost scarry merging into traffic). I liked the car alot; I found that the seats were way more comfortable than the US seats.
--Matt

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KI6CCA

Current Stable:
1987 300SDL
1980 450SEL

Out to Pasture:
1982 300D KIA (Rice Rocket vs. 123: He hit me at 80-100MPH I walked away he went to the hospital. Sounds fair to me!)
1985 300D EURO Scrapped (got more money from state than car was worth)
1979 & 1980 300SD Great Cars!

not worried about speed, I've got a 2 mile long on ramp to get on the interstate at home and the one leaving work is a mile and a half long!

(here's my 84 turboD on that onramp, stopped the video after about 1/2 mile heh: http://www.macomber.net/300D/09/accelerate.AVI) oh by do I miss that car...

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2003 VW Passat GLS 1.8t wagon 73k mi
1998 Dodge Dakota Sport 228k mi
1974 VW Karmann Ghia Coupe 74k mi (for sale)

Out here some of our ramps are measured in Feet. It gets to be a close your eyes and pray experience sometimes.
By the way if you happen to get the car this weekend I am selling my ERUO light on ebay and will give you free shipping if you have a need for them. I found on mine that they gave way better light and looked way cooler.
The Video was great; I replaced my EURO with a 300SDL and I miss the noise that the 617 engine makes.
Good Luck on Saturday
--Matt

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KI6CCA

Current Stable:
1987 300SDL
1980 450SEL

Out to Pasture:
1982 300D KIA (Rice Rocket vs. 123: He hit me at 80-100MPH I walked away he went to the hospital. Sounds fair to me!)
1985 300D EURO Scrapped (got more money from state than car was worth)
1979 & 1980 300SD Great Cars!

If it's a stick, it would actually be nearly as fast as the US turbo model. The '85 might even have a 5-speed! That would be neat and very rare in this country. Is it a W123 or W124? Let us know what you find out.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

W123, euro bumpers, US spec lights and I can see some rust in the pictures so I'm not getting my hopes up for anything great.

it's a bit more money than I've got but if it's got a manual...

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2003 VW Passat GLS 1.8t wagon 73k mi
1998 Dodge Dakota Sport 228k mi
1974 VW Karmann Ghia Coupe 74k mi (for sale)

John had a Euro 300D with a stick a few years back. Ugly green color, but kinda of grew on you.

Neat car don't know what happend to it, sold it somewhere in NJ.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Manual AC controls are almost as good as manual tranny. Seems like I remember that Euro models weren't undercoated like US spec cars, and tend to rust more. (something like that.....)

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John