Given half a chance I'll go for the W140 just for the comfort and the size of it - also from a taking stuff to bits point of view I like a challenge. I'm going to try and get to see some possible purchases next week.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I think alot of it has to do with perspective. I took a ride in the back of a "commissioned" MB car in Holland one very early, and very hung over, morning for a 100 mile trip to catch a train to fly back to the US. I sat in the back of the black, manual-tanny equivalent of the 98 or 99 w210 e300 (I think it's an e200 in europe) driving at 150 km+ per hour- while the driver (a 7 foot tall athletic guy with black terminator sunglasses and shaven head- wearing black leather pants and jacket- kept asking me questions about "your president Bush" and after a while I thought "I want this car. I gotta get me one of these..."

The (w140) S class are nice, big, pretty cars- but the e300 (W210) brings back memories of Europe for me that the S class doesn't. And besides, I'd have a hard time justifying a 75- 100% higher cost of fuel consumption in my life right now. A gallon of 87 octane (can you even burn that in a 140 S-class?) is 3.99, while premium, or 92 octane is $4.29 a gallon, and D2 diesel is $3.89 at a couple of stations in my area.) Doing the math, and looking at insurance rates- I couldn't afford a 140, even if I really wanted one right now.

I guess my suggestion would be to tally the total costs and look at where your life is right now, and make the more reasonable decision for your situation. Good Luck.

I get 29 mpg hiway, 6 cylinder with the modified power of a s550

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

Angel:-

Don't waste 1500 euros a year on road tax! You could buy a W201 for that and pay for most of the road tax - come on you're a Dad now and you'll have more lawyer bills to pay for the divorce...

Devil:-

Ahhhh too much monkey business

Summer's coming and there's a German Autobahn with your name on it 45 minutes away...

...this is the only chance you'll have before they legislate your heavy right foot off of your leg!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

hahahaha

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

The angel almost won today!

W201 test drive (and fun and games trying to buy a car)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Get your W140... You like to tinker

Plus, if your a wide individual, will not over flow on the seat. Your butt will feel right at home in the W140..

Martin

I'm a stripped down racing snake so the wide butt isn't a problem just yet!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!