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Originally Posted by Oracle12345
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.
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There are plenty of newer cars with over 200K miles holding up very well. I'd say most of today's cars will outlast their predecessors. There are some exceptions, for example the W123 cars had better rust protection than the early W210's, but generally today 200K miles is not exceptional whereas in the 70's it was, otherwise why did odometers only have 5 digits back then? I know that my OM606 with 136K miles isn't burning a drop of oil whereas my OM616 with a little more miles was burning a noticeable amount. From this forum it seems all the oil burning/blowby threads are concerning the OM616/7 engines whereas the newer ones don't appear to have such problems even if they have more miles on them.
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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)
Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL
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