No, it's not a slug, they're just slow to get up to 50 + MPH .

If everything is right they move right out with the rest of the traffic, only having difficulty merging the freeway at 45 MPH .

If you want a Hot Rod, BUY ONE don't blame the budget buster 240D economobile you chose to buy .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Many 240ds are not in the best tune by now. Yet they are one of the only cars I can think of. Where you are attempting to extract all the power available from them on a fairly frequent basis.

I really have always liked them but for self preservation. You would have to be careful in large cities with a lot of fast moving traffic today.

I did get some exposure to the type of driving experience. By driving volkswagon bugs for some amount of years.

Yes, understood .

The older ones here will likely remember driving tiny little Foreign cars in the 1950's & 1960's that had so little power one had to conserve their forward momentum...

I too drove VW Beetles (and vans) with the tiny 1192C.C. 36HP engines, they were fairly sprightly but didn't have a chance against any American V8 .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better