300TD will live longer than I will. I'm keeping it forever.
300D has cancer (rust), about 10 years left to live.
MBs are the best - it's not just that they last this long, it's that we want to keep them this long... I see plenty of 80's toyotas on the road, but who wants to keep a 80's toyota? We all want to keep our 80's MBs.

I can't believe anyone that likes an MB diesel from two decades ago reads consumer reports..
That's just.. odd somehow..

I'll keep my Lexie/toyota comments to my self, time will show..

Slowmoe, I don't read Consumer Reports so I really have no opinion if they have a bias. I basing my opinion on Toyota's on that I have owned a couple of them. It seemed that after about 5 years they started falling apart. The engines started leaking as well, but otherwise they always ran good except until the multitudes of engine sensors started malfunctioning. No, no more Toyota's for me.

My Camry, which my sister drives, just hit 130K and with the exception of needing the strut pads replaced, it has no rattles and has never broken down. Doesn't leak any oil/tranny fluid and still has all original components except the brake pads and struts.


Timing belt was changes at 60k and will be done again in a week or so.

Still original hoses.....AC, starter.....alternator.

Great low maintenance car.

Plantman, I'm guessing you have the 4 cyl Camry. We had a V-6. We got rid of it when it had only 60K miles on it. Sorry to say but it was a big POS. Parts were expensive and serviceability was extremely difficult. Some of the most rediculous small things would break causing the need for the replacement of an entire component. I was glad to see it go.
I wish my 300D had less miles on it, it would have been a perfect replacement for the Camry