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Originally Posted by dariod
You better get 500 000 out of a car that costed like 50 000 dollars in the 1980's because you can get that mileage out of a 18 000 dollars Toyota Corolla and that is 18 000 dollars in todays weak dollar.
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Sorry to bust your bubble, but a 240D was NOT a $50,000 car. Mine was a Euro car with 17,000 miles on it and a year old when I bought it for $17,000. I also paid $17,000, as I recall, for my 77 240D brand new.
Yes, they were expensive to buy initially, but ammortized including operating expenses, my half million mile 240D cost less per mile than any other new or near new car that I ever purchased.
As pointed out by another poster, it is not a fair comparison between a new car and one of 30+ year old technology. The 123 MB was designed in the mid seventies.