I thought it would be interesting to see where the most and oldest mzb diesels located. Reply and lets see! State model,year and miles.

1980 300D
225800 miles and still rumbling in Portsmouth, New Hampshire!!

[Edited by Dan Fitzpatrick on 04-12-2001 at 04:25 PM]

We have more diesel MBs as petrol MBs in the netherlands. There are a terrible lot of C class and E class diesels on our roads.

1993 C250D with 369.000km in the netherlands

greetingz,

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1990 300SL-24
1993 C250D with a minor 600+k kilometer
www.MBenzNL.com(the Netherlands)

Certainly not the oldest, nor the most used, but I LOVE my baby. Smokey is garaged in Sacramento, CA.

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Chris

'04 ML500 - 53k, Inspiration Edition, Desert Silver
'11 Audi A4 Avant - Brilliant Black
'87 300SDL sold
'99 C280 Sport sold
'85 190E 2.3 sold

A white, 1975 240D daily driver in San Antonio, Texas with 313,104 Mi (503,878 Km).


Roger Minton
240D (needs new 500k badge)
560SL

1980 240D 224 kmiles. Ivory. Car spent first 12 years of her life in California. Doesn't have the block heater, which I could have used last January.

I going to do a life test on her. I'm going to keep fixing her until the engine or the tranny has a major failure. I don't care if body parts fall off while I'm driving to work in the morning, but I'm going to see how far she will go.

Collinsville, Illinois, about 16 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri.

Columbus, Ohio. Bought here in town. Silver with blue MB-Tex (191,000 miles).

240Joe: Im doing the same with mine. Keep it in good running order until a engine or tranny problem. My sister and i both agree it will make it to the 350-400K range. But please dont continue to drive it without doors!!!!

In Louisiana USA - 1995 S-350 137,000 miles but racking up about 1,000 miles per week. I'll get there--that medallion I mean.

In Broomfield, CO:

1981 300SD - 232k miles and mechanically superb
1991 300D - 163k miles and begging for more
1976 300D - 260k miles and starting to rust (the rust matches the orange paint, so it's not too bad)

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Ben

The MBs:
1976 300D (W115) - 330K and still going (sort of)
1991 300D 2.5 Turbo - Sold at 221K
1983 280SEL - Sold at 206K
1981 300SD - Sold at 232K

Jeepboy

If the doors fall off, I still have the seat belt to hold me in. Therefore, doors are optional.

Joe

The Dumpling, an 83 240D, has 291k and lives in Charlotte NC. He enjoys chattering with other diesels at stoplights and having a go with the occasional GEO Metro.

I'm in Wilmington, NC with my diesel. I don't see as many diesel MBs as I used to around this neck of the woods. Now I see the newer MBs, especially E Class.. and have been a little surprised to see the number of E55 MBs around here. I have seen 2 cars in town EXACTLY like mine.. once when I stopped to fill up with fuel, we looked like a mirror image at the tanks. By the way, diesel was $1.35 on Monday but may go up around here any minute.. I have to admit that I'm really tired of the lies about "why diesel is priced as high as it is". But SAY LA VEE.

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Nello Tare

1982 300D (266,001 mi.) looking and running great

Previously owned:
1976 450 SLC
1983 300D
1976 300D
also
1982 Jaguar XJ6 (loved, but gone)

My sig. answers most of the original questions. I emailed MBUSA asking about what my car cost new. They sent me a photocopy of the original dealer invoice, FROM 1980. The car was manufactured in April '80 (from door jam). The car was bought by a dealer in Rockville Center, NY on June 6,1980 for a cost of $26,835. That's dealer cost, retail was $33,473. I gather the car has been an East Ccoast car all this time. The color, per the invoice, is called simply Champagne metallic. I always called it gold. I live in south central NJ. There are only a few W116s running around here, and that's the way I like it.

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1999 MB SL500 (110,000 mi)
2004 Volvo V70 2.5T (220,000 mi)
2014 Tesla Model S 85 (136,000 mi)
MBCA member

Baltimore Maryland and loving them steam crabs 'hon!

Greetings,

Got a '80 300TD wagon here at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, and haven't seen a single station wagon since I have lived here the last 17 years. I'm special I guess, sure turns the heads wondering what the hell I'm driving. Got 159,000 on the clock and love the smell of diesel in the morning noon or night. If it didn't burn diesel, I wouldn't want her, the sound of working ponies is music to my ears. I enjoy the occasionaly wave of the hand from the very few MB owners I pass during my daily commute. They know what I know, it's not a car it's part of the family.


Charles

My 1987 300D Turbo has been in Orange County, California all it's life. It was/is a daily commuter with a lot of cross-country road trips under it's wheels. My sister-in-law was the original and only owner until she sold it to me last November. 291,500 miles as of yesterday...