How's the 164 treating you? I've always liked the styling of those cars but I've never been able to bring myself to buy one. I assumed that they didn't have much power (although wikipedia tells me I'm wrong about that, at least as far as the 3.0 24v goes) and the front wheel drive thing kinda squicks me just, oh, a whole hell of a lot. They're such good looking cars though.

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-Kevin
Past: '67 250SE, '86 & '87 560SELs
Projects: '73 Buick Riviera, '75 350SE (grey market, stick shift)
Cars that actually run under their own power:'87 300D Turbo, '03 Corvette Z06, '07 Subaru Impreza WRX STI Limited

Pretty good running car so far. Minor stuff to deal with. Only major issue is a dirty starter drive (the bendix doesn't fully retract from flywheel. Slight "ding" "ding" sound. I quick rev retracts it fully. Either replace or clean starter.) Easy to do, just difficult to get to the starter.

It's an auto so 0-30 isnt very quick but after that it flies. Actually had a guy in an Infinity G35 struggling to match the speed up to 120 mph (that's when he quit ).

Here's a vid of a manual (I think 0-60 is around 6.9 sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeX6e3WJA3o&feature=related

Although front wheel drive, it has very little torque steering under hard acceleration.

It does have a Sport and Ice mode switch for the tranny which is a bonus and changes gear more smoothly than any Mercedes I've owned.

The seats are ultra comfortable, and hold you in firmly.