I average about 130 miles each day using my 300SD and 190D turbo most of the time. The 350SDL rests at the back of the garage to be used for those special events. The 300D is added to the mix as something must rotate out for maintenance.

Many of you run the pants off of your W-123s but for me the busy engine noise on the hi-wy wears after awhile. And then this 190D is just so much fun to "punch" on an on ramp. 32mpg on the hi-wy is not too bad either.

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Buzz
1977 300D 151K (TMU) DB922 Pastel Blue w/Blue
1981 300SD 450K DB753 Astral Silver w/Black
1987 190D Turbo 340K DB199 Black Pearl w/Black
1990 350SDL 190K DB199 Black Pearl w/Black
1994 E320 Convertible 65K DB(9)744 Brilliant Silver w/Grey
1995 E300 Diesel 150K DB (5)904 Midnight Blue w/Saddle

My 1985 300SD is BEST car I have owned bar none. Running B99 smoothly and quietly!

Elegant Madame (from New Orleans):

I drive an average of about 35 miles per day. Several weekends ago, I drove it about 300 miles one day on the Interstate and the cruise control worked great. This is the family car.

The odometer turned 088,888 tonight.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

It's my only car. I can only drive one a time, but I still want another.

240d is a very humbling first car....

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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

As long as they would add one additional commandment for you to keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin (Wonder where he is now..)

1981 240d (engine donor 1983 240d) recently rebuilt engine hurray! - No more.. fought a tree and the tree won.

pearl black 1983 240d 4speed (Converted!@$$%) atleast the tranny was rebuilt.

My SDL is my daily driver during the summer.(roughly 6 months out of the year, its going to bed in a couple of weeks.) I put a TON of miles on it this year, like 8k. Next year I'm going to trade the winter beater for something better, I'd like to keep the useage on the SDL to about 5k miles per year. I'm in no rush to wear out all the stuff I just replaced!

Once I get the body cleaned up, and a nice Navi/DVD/Ipod/sound system installed...I'd like to keep it in the garage for a weekend car. Now I use it for work, which sucks, because work follows me. I need a work car.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I use my 123 euro NA. my neighbour uses my 126 300SD (she's hot), I also use my 116 300SD when I fix my 123
all with just 2 plates!
best cars ever made. kinda bad on diesel compared to the french.

Count me in -- although strictly speaking, it's not a "daily driver" because I don't leave the property every day (one of the nice things about being retired). (The 603-powered '87 is my wife's.)

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

Before I went to Iraq last year the 240D was my daily driver, 50 miles a day. I just recently got back and it's back on the job. It managed a nearly 500 mile road trip from Reno to LA this week. Darn slow in the mountains, but it did it. The 300 is at my dad's house waiting for me to pick it up and put it over 300,000 miles.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

The 84 everyday (30 to 50 miles) unless I'm going fishing then its AWD suv since I get in to 2-tracks that I don't want to risk my D's on. Fishing is only in the spring and fall though.

My son drives the 85 and the TD is just garaged right now.

Planning to have 2 of the D's painted this winter.

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the sooner you start... the sooner you'll get done If it ain't broke, don't fix it.. Its always simpler to tell the truth...
2007 Honda Accord EX
2007 Honda Accord SE V6
96 C220
97 Explorer - Found Another Home
2000 Honda Accord V6 - Found Another Home
85 300D - Found Another Home
84 300D - Found Another Home
80 300TD - Found Another Home
Previous cars:
96 Caravan
87 Camry
84 Cressida
82 Vanagon
80 Fiesta
78 Nova
Ford Cortina
Opel Kadet
68 Kombi
Contessa

Me too..... My 84 takes me where-ever I need to go.... It's getting put away as soon as the salt flies, then I'll be driving my Grandma's 95 Chevy 6.5L Turbo Diesel.... I'm using it today to hall a load of scrap.... Ah, the POWER!!!!!!

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-Matt

EPA Section 609 Certified MVAC Technician
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Oil Burner Kartel Member #10

Ahh the smell of Diesel Fuel, it's like coffee in the morning!

My Car:

1982 300SD Turbo Diesel (231,500 miles!) RIP

1984 300SD Turbo Diesel Custom (235,500 mi on driveline.) - On Road!!

www.icsrepair.com

Five days a week 52 weeks a year = appx 17,000 per year. Lovin every minute of it! 50% devotion 100% EMOTION

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85 300CD The FryrBird MY daily driver

I put 50 miles a day on my 1985 300TD. Nothing work yet, but I still love it.

Millie was my DD, until I racked up 15k miles in the first 9 months I owned her.

Decided to buy something else to take the abuse so Millie would still be nice when I retire.

She is entirely suitable for DD use, just too nice for the daily grind, IMO.


Tim

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2009 VW TDI Jetta Sportwagon 172k miles (rear-ended harder than Elton John on 8/4/13. Total loss)

1991 Volvo 240 142k miles (T-boned by a stop sign runner. Total loss)

Does a euro 1985 W124 count? 603.912 non-turbo but she purrs at 65mph for my 40mi round trip to work every day. I couldn't have kept her without the help of this great board.