Yes it should!

Small four cylinder engines fitted to relatively large cars as an E-state were created just to avoid extremely high taxes on countries were large displacement engines are heavily penalized.

The cars (i.e. E200, E220, E230, S280) would run fine for a while but the engine would constantly be under heavy stress due to the weight of the car. This in return provided high gas comsuption and usually early engine failure (if not meticously mantained).

The scenario worsens if the car is an automatic and is fully optioned. My advise would be: look for an E280 six-cylinder model.

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A. Rosich
CL 500, 1998
S 500 L, 1998
E 320 T, 1995 [Sadly sold ]