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Originally Posted by elchivito
I still haven't seen the car, the owner is out of town. Sometime this week. I was reading history page today and the 220D was described as being "dangerously slow" in takeoffs. On another page, a guy said his manual 220D was faster off the line than his 300SD.....Any comments?
Also, the guy has quite nicely offered to meet me half way as the car is 75 miles from here, but I really want to start it from cold. Is this as critical as I'm lead to believe?
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Early 300sd's were slow off the line, so I can believe it. But the 300SD will be ahead from 20mph onwards. The 220D has a top speed around 80mph but the 300SD tops out at 105.
IMO there is really no comparison between the 2 cars. I find humor in the slowness.
Flagstaff is almost 7k feet above sea level, so it would be very slow indeed. I'd venture to guess, that most 220Ds don't have air. In AZ an old car with working air is a great selling feature, so since the ad makes no mention of it, I bet it doesn't have working A/C.
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1979 240D, 4spd manual, Power Sunroof, manual windows, 147k miles, Pastel gray/Black MB Tex.
1991 300D 2.5 - Smokes like it's on Crack!
