I have one question for all of you.... kind of a psycological thing with the love affair of cars

How do you feel when you're driving around in your Mercedes Benz?

Proud?
Elite?
Rich?
Competative (ie: give BMW and Volvo drivers dirty looks)?

or Just How do you feel?


Another Question: When you drive your Benz, and you drive over a pot-hole does it actualy "hurt"?

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RIP: 80 300SD
RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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my benz makes me feel elite and commanding.
and i like to think that it does "hurt" when i go over a pot-hole

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1981 300 SD 213k miles "Stock for now"
1999 Super Duty 7.3L 113k miles
1981 300 SD 180k miles "Heavily modified" SOLD

Esoteric and/or eccentric.

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

The deisel makes me feel like I can afford to eat out more

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'82 Euro MB 300 D Turbo Silver/Blue - Fixed
Adding W115 Intake and Intercooler

1986 Chevy Camaro Cp 400HP For Sale
Engineer
Tuscaloosa, AL

I feel I'm in a better made car than most others out there. I see the value in older MB's vs something like a ford/chevy/chrysler of similar price.

Internally: I feel proud (when the Turbo Diesel came back in 1998, I said that someday I would own one), smart, comfortable, at peace, safe, basically like I have no cares in the world and would love to keep driving.

Externally: I really do not care for outward appearances and do things for my own logical reasons, regardless of the thoughts/comments of others, but if anything I would typically feel embarassed. People think the wrong things like it is brand new and costs a tremendous amount of money, yet they paid double what I did for their SUV or Pickups. The looks of bewilderment when they realize it is 8 years old with 93,000 on it and costs less then the Hyundai they bought their kid, as they say is, Priceless.

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raMBow

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

My mercedes is a tool....nothing else. Granted, it's a little nicer tool than the Pontiac I used to drive, but still, it's just a tool.

When I replace it, some day, with a McLaren SLR...then I'll have to re-comment.

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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I love driving around behind that star.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

I think that sums it up perfectly. Even though my car was ailing (suspension noises and such) I'd look at that star and my pride would be restored and the things wrong ith my car all become a part of it's character.

I think (don't know who's banner) "the cars with the three pointed star embody a special kind of spirit" and it's VERy true. I feel connected to my car when I'm driving it.

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RIP: 80 300SD
RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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FACEBOOK: PANZER450

i feel proud that i'm driving around in a 'real' mercedes-benz rather than one of the yuppie poseur toyota corolla-esque c-class pos's that are popular in my area. you have to look twice with those cars, but one look at the old 240d and there's no doubt, even from people who don't know their ear from their elbow when it comes to cars, that it's a mercedes. it's nice because i know of three w123's in my town, along with several w126's, and the rest are all c230 'sport sedans' and those god-awful r350's that somehow have found a following with the gluttonous american mcmansion pig crowd looking to get rid of their yukon denali xl's in favour of something more 'economical'. i need to move to europe.

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1980 240D, 197580 miles - "The Stuttgart Stomper"

so true
i agree 110%

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1981 300 SD 213k miles "Stock for now"
1999 Super Duty 7.3L 113k miles
1981 300 SD 180k miles "Heavily modified" SOLD

I feel very proud to drive my mercedes. not because its a mercedes, but because it has lasted 23 years with no signs of giving up. what american POS do u know that can run that long and have no problems??

You ask how i feel if i run over a pot hole? heck i feel bad when i have to many people in the car and put a straighn on the engine, and if i turn a corner to fast or brake to hard, it makes me feel like crap 2. so a pot hole, yes, i do hurt

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1983 Euro 240D 277K
2016 Mazda 6
Coming Soon, 2013 Mercedes E350 Bluetec
Formers:
2012- Mazda 3
2007 Outlander- complete pile
1995 E300 Diesel 208K
2007 VW Passat 2.0T 63K SOLD
2003 Jaguar X-type 3.0 Sport Sold 04/11 w/88K
2009 Lexus RX350 9061 miles. Sold 04/09
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS:Totaled Sept.,09 @ 24,000
2003 Infiniti I35 58K Sold
1984 300 turbo diesel 222K

Yes, Very agreeable!

I bought my benz for the economy, as well as the asthetics. it's a Gorgeous car! Sometimes I feel as tho I'm Chauffering a big russian diplomat somewhere (don't ask)

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RIP: 80 300SD
RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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FACEBOOK: PANZER450

I'm reminded of a coupl times where I'd be out cruising in my 300SD.

One time, I was stopped at a light and I had this rice burning crappy honda with a 15 storey spoiler pull up to me and purge his nitrous...I made like I was going to race him. the light turned green and off he went..I just accellerated gently and left, and when I caught up to him a few blocks later, he was on the side of the road talking to an RCMP officer. I laughed out my window as I drove by.....

more coming..

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RIP: 80 300SD
RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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FACEBOOK: PANZER450

Driving down a 70Km/H stretch, and a corvette pulls up next to me and I keep up, then he drops back about 5 blocks, then hammers the pedal and blazez past me. and he gives me the finger...

so later, we're on a single lane road, and he's behind me, being civil for once, and we get to a hill..a fairly steep hill. I'm driving a Mercedes, and he's driving this nice Corvette z06 just washed...with NO TOP ON I saw this and gave out an evil giggle...we get to the hill, and I proceed in "s" to keep going, meanwhile he's riding my tail up the entire hill. Near the top of the hill I throw it into "L" and the engine revs and a HUGE cloud of black Diesel smoke completely envelopes his car. and I reach out the sunroof when the smoke clears and give him MY finger I know, I'm BAD

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RIP: 80 300SD
RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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FACEBOOK: PANZER450