I would actually not be discouraged so quickly about bringing that baby here...

Afterall the chassis is already imported to the usa (airbags, crash tests, already done with the E-classe)
...and the engine already exist here as well in on one of its iterrations in the Dodge Sprinter (now if i could get my greasy hands on one of these engine without the van, i would transplant it in a little 240D i have around!!!!).

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Aquilae non capunt muscas! (Eagles don't hunt flies!)


1979 300SD Black/Black MBtex239000mi
1983 300TD euro-NA. White/Olive Cloth-MBtex 201000mi. Fleet car of the USA embassy in Morocco
1983 240D Labrador Blue/Blue MBtex 161000mi