My wife gave a co-worker who professed to be a "car guy" a ride home in the '87 300D turbo the other day. On the way home he started telling her about how one of his neighbors had a Mercedes diesel and what dumb cars they were because they were so slow and shook so much. About the same time she started passing this truck on the highway going uphill and casually looked over and said "by the way, THIS is a diesel." She said he was pretty quiet all the way home after that. I think she's finally a convert.

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LRG
1987 300D Turbo 175K
2006 Toyota Prius, efficent but no soul
1985 300 TDT(130K miles of trouble free motoring)now sold