I rode in a black 96-99 e300 (or unbadged euro equivalent) in Holland ten years ago and fell in love. This "limosine" version was beautiful and the driver raved about it. Ever since, I have dreamed of owning something like this.

I love my euro w201 190d 4spd, but would like to get something a little bigger and would like to find out if it would be possible to do an automatic to standard tranny conversion in a 96-99 e300 because importing one seems out of the question due to the newer epa regs.

I have researched this in the past, and I know there are issues with the ecu (in later models?). I thought someone said the 96 model with the older 4spd auto tranny would be the best for such a swap. I have also read about people looking to install non-MB trannies in w210s as well, primarily because there are so many lying around and our MB manual trannies are all but non-existent.

Please let me know what you all think. I think it would be good to gather info on a w210 tranny swap in this thread too because the other threads are pretty scant on information about how to do this if possible.

Thanks- John