apparently there was a time when the inside rear view mirror of a 140 was unadjusted by human hands. but by 1997, that had changed. the mirror was as fragile as its predecessor, but had to be manually adjusted.

you can look it up in this site's search engine.

and it is a bad benz story. when it was electrical, it cost about grand. when it went manual, the price was not reduced.

i think this must be an instance of benz trying to recapture its 140 losses.

all in all, it is situations like this that leave me with a very big bad taste in my mouth for the house of schrempp[sic].