Mwood, you said the car you bought has had a full valve job, heah gasket, radiator, wiring harness, brakes, etc. With the exception of brakes, you mentioned a lot of serious repairs. You didn't say how many miles your car has on it. Assuming the car has 100k miles on it, a Honda or Toyota would have had none of those jobs done; it probably wouldn't have needed them until 250,000 miles. I'm assuming you will soon be needing an oil and transmission gasket (about $500 each), and if your a/c works, that's a bonus; most don't, unless they've had extensive work done on them. Think about $1,300, and even then you have a so-so a/c system.

The diesel is supposed to outlast any of them, that's why I bought a diesel. I won't have another gas MB, too many problems.

1991 300d, 92k