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01-26-2014, 12:24 PM
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I Want This 1995 E300D
Really...now come on...
From the ad: 95 Mercedes E300 Diesel $3995 255,000 miles "Talk about a Deal This is it, Local Trade. 60 miles to a gallon with this diesel Mercedes! This unit has been Serviced/Inspected and is ready for Immediate Delivery." Better keep it a secret though. Not just every W124 can muster sixty mpg. 
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Lance Allison Lance@LanceAllison.com Current: 11 MB S550 4Matic, 55k miles, Designo Black/Black 14 Ford F150 XLT Lariat Crew, 73k miles, 5.0 Coyote V8 4x4. Black/tan. 09 GMC Envoy Denali, 5.3 V8, 4x4 SWB. 38k miles, Jewel Red/Med Gray. Gone: 87 MB 300SDL, 320k miles, Astral Silver/Blue. 98 VW Jetta TDI, 488k miles, Classic Green/Gray. 85 Olds 98 Brougham FWD, 4.3 DIESEL V6, 80k miles, 3x Gray. MBCA Member, Chicago Region 
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01-26-2014, 12:31 PM
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I love the ads for W115s and W123s that get 40+mpg when they never got that mileage new! Maybe going downhill or on the southern tip of a strong cyclonic complex traveling across a very flat highway. Alas, that would be short lived though...
Phil Forrest
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1972 220D "Trudy," named by a friend. "The 220D sounds good... I suspect it is the only car that you need a calendar for, rather than a stopwatch, when doing acceleration tests." Tom Abrahamsson
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01-26-2014, 12:46 PM
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What do you expect when NONE of the cars have a working speedometer...... it's as bad as the people that base their milage off the on board milage computer.
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"NEW" 1984 300D TD needs some love
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01-26-2014, 01:06 PM
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That's nothing! My 1995 E300D got 70 mpg------coasting downhill from Tahoe.
I once drove the speed limit for a week just to see what fuel mileage I would get and it was 28.5 mpg over 350 miles. Not a really accurate test cause in my "normal" driving I consistently get 27.3 mpg. How about the adds that say "only 258,000 miles, Just broken in!, these engines are known to last 1 million miles." "No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
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01-28-2014, 10:39 PM
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I came across a local CL ad for an Escalade claiming 28-30 mpg. I responded to the ad asking for more detail about the mpg figure, never got a reply.
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Lance Allison Lance@LanceAllison.com Current: 11 MB S550 4Matic, 55k miles, Designo Black/Black 14 Ford F150 XLT Lariat Crew, 73k miles, 5.0 Coyote V8 4x4. Black/tan. 09 GMC Envoy Denali, 5.3 V8, 4x4 SWB. 38k miles, Jewel Red/Med Gray. Gone: 87 MB 300SDL, 320k miles, Astral Silver/Blue. 98 VW Jetta TDI, 488k miles, Classic Green/Gray. 85 Olds 98 Brougham FWD, 4.3 DIESEL V6, 80k miles, 3x Gray. MBCA Member, Chicago Region
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01-28-2014, 11:10 PM
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I just got 27mpg out of my e300 on a 85 mph all highway trip. Maybe if I drove 55 I could get 60mpg...
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'85 300TD "Puff The Magic Wagon" - Rolling Resto '19 Mazda CX-9 Signature - Wife's sled '21 Morgan 3-Wheeler P101 Edition '95 E300d - SOLD '84 300TD "Brown Betty" - Miss this one '81 240D "China Baby" - Farm grocery getter
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01-29-2014, 01:31 AM
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Fuel economy
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The overall average for this car is 28.0 mpg over ~20,000 miles because most of the miles are around town. The '95-'97 E300 should get low to mid-30s at 60 or 65 mph but I don't know anyone who has the patience to drive that slow for any length of time. Besides, you'd get creamed by a semi if you tried to drive that slow. SLC Xmas 2013 1677 miles $211.90 total 54.4 gallons $3.89 per gallon 30.8 MPG $0.13 per mile Jeremy
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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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