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10-17-2011, 10:26 PM
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124 Mercedes featured as one of top 8 used cars to buy!
cool article in november's popular mechanics!
some nice words, and some misnomers posted.. (parts price sticker shock...) I like the quote, "feels like it was carved from a solid metal slab." they kinda dis the diesel version, but complement it as well...
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10-17-2011, 10:29 PM
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Hopefully some folks will read it and buy the 124 I'm selling!
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10-17-2011, 10:37 PM
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10-17-2011, 10:44 PM
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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
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10-18-2011, 11:15 AM
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Makes perfect sense to me. The only fault I have commonly heard of is rust, and that's mostly on the early series cars.
It was Consumer Guide, I believe, that picked the 300e as the overall cheapest car to run (I am assuming in its size range) back in the late 1980s. They took into account resale value as a big part of that. The guy who ran the local indy shop at the time banged on about that for years afterwards  : Ze German engineering ist cheeper in zee long run etc....
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10-18-2011, 05:20 PM
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I've always toyed with the idea of getting a W124 gasser, but have heard that they are gross polluters and will break you when you try to pass smog. I'm sure some states are tougher than others.
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10-18-2011, 06:08 PM
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!
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10-18-2011, 06:40 PM
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yeah, they said something like, "the diesel versions are slow enough to cause brain damage..."
they go on to hype them as perfect apocalypse vehicles...
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!
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10-18-2011, 08:42 PM
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Gross polluter
 is kind of a harsh label to slap on all W124 series. Mine all pass state smog tests. Anything that's not maintained will fail, regardless of who made it.
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10-18-2011, 08:52 PM
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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.
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10-18-2011, 10:11 PM
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heh, reading that quote made me think that popular mechanics could be theorizing the MB diesel as both cause and salvation for the apocalypse...
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!
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10-20-2011, 11:52 PM
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