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

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

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

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

You probably had a fuel leak

Sixto
87 300D

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

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

Our Christmas trip was 1,677 miles on I-80 and much of it was at 75 and 80 mph (Utah has raised the speed limit across the salt flats to 80 mph!!). I was pleased to average 31 mpg in the '95 E300, especially on winter diesel.

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