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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
The 70's and 80's MB diesels are simple. I'll give you that. They're also uncomfortable, inefficient, smoky and tend to leak or burn oil. And no, they don't run forever. In fact in my experience they start to burn oil sooner than the newer diesels because they're not built to the same precision, and I've seen plenty of old MB diesels for sale with rebuilt engines.
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Car technology is constantly changing especially with the engineering of engines and transmissions with the intention to make it better as time goes on. But in terms of build the newer cars arent built as well as the older ones and wont last long as the old mercedes. Most of the cars of today are built and designed with cheap materials designed to last the average length of time that most people hold onto cars. The new mbs of today we wont remembering down the road. Todays car is like any appliance that once it breaks it gets thrown out and can be recyled easily.
But really its unfair to compare the mb's of the 70's and 80's to today mercedes since the mindset of designers and engineers is different and also their target customers are different. So really its apples n oranges. A much better comparison would a vw from the 70 and 80's say a rabbit agianst a 240D or 300D.