An '85 N/A manual would be a Euro-spec car. Some of them did get imported into the U.S., as I would imagine a few U.S.-spec cars may have ended up in Europe.

I have heard that Mercedes did sell a factory manual turbodiesel, one year only. 1987 190D-not sure if this is factual.

It makes sense to me that demand was low for manuals in America. We manual transmission fans are a minority here. It puzzles me that more turbo options weren't available in Europe. Maybe it had something to do with the taxes on cars there?

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