re: #318 Guanxi88

Yep, found a neighbor of ours driving a 1984 Mercedes 300D. That friggin’ car has 350,000 miles on it, and is good for at least another 200,000, unless he wrecks it, which is all but impossible.

Now, if the engineers and designers at MB came out with a car like that today, they’d be done-for - there’s no sense in building it the way they did back then, because manufacturing processes are now faster and cheaper, and hence the cars are more affordable.

My dad had an old 250D from the late sixties. When he finally got rid of it after half a million miles, some agent bought it. Said it would be rebuilt and sent to Japan for use as a taxi. Probably still running somewhere in Thailand.