Drive a 500E hard and then see if you still feel that way.

Seriously, I'm always baffled when people refer to the W124 as "obsolete." The car was about 20 years ahead of its time at introduction. About the only things of any significance that modern luxury cars have that it doesn't would be navigation, stability control, and traction control (although the last was an option in later cars). It is fast enough, especially the V-8 versions, and has a wonderful direct feel to its handling that modern cars with more complicated speed-sensitive (or worse, electric) power steering systems lack.

I'll willingly agree that a 123 or 116 looks and feels like an old car. But with Euro headlights (or in the facelift '94-'95 version) the 124 still looks modern to normal people (i.e. not car geeks); many people have asked me if mine was a new car. Yes, current sport sedans are much faster in a straight line. Are they that much better otherwise? I'm not convinced.

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