I've test driven and had as loaner cars about twelve different new MBs over the last five years. Sure, they are nice and the a/c works great and there's never a puddle under them. But in my view, not one of those cars comes even close to the road feel in my 124s. The new ones are more like bubbles on wheels, reminiscent more of the kind of ride I got in the Lincoln Mark IVs I drove in college. I am not interested in floating along the road and not feeling it, if I'm going to drive, I want to know it and not operate it by a kind of remote control.

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1994 E500 199/Gray 82k
84 300D (Salty) Orient Red/Palomino 141k
88 300CE (Ersatzhammer) 904/Java 163k -- Turbo Technics twin turbo kit, AMG Gen I body kit, Sportline steering box and steering wheel, Sportline/Eibach /Bilstein Sport/500E suspension, Quaife LSD in 210 mm diff case, Silver Arrow brakes.
88 300CE Brabus 3.6 199 on Black 44k