Thanks for all the input! Doesn't sound like there were any things not built as well in the '95 as in the '86! As far as the additional power, that is certainly nice...My daily driver is a 2000 540i with 6-speed, so I definitely like to have some grunt, but with the wagon, it's more secondary- the 177hp is probably good, although the 2nd gear start would piss me off (especially since I'm used to a stickshift with instant power).

This whole desire to have a wagon as a extra weekend/family car started when I saw a beautiful- spotless restored 1983 300td wagon- gold with chocholate brown MB tex interior at the local supermarket...started looking at those, then somewhow said to myself the W124's look nice...then said wow I like what they did with the '94-'95 wagons- especially certain colors (two tone light or dark green and beige interior with the nice w124 wood accents for example- wow what a nice color combo! see picture below (this one sold on ebay for $7K! spotless car with 90K miles) I'm just getting the hang of this site, but I think if you click on the picture below it will enlarge.

I still like the W123, but that's going to be slower & noiser- not a problem for me, but my wife wouldn't like it as much.

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