Our next feature is an ’85 Mercedes-Benz 300D, the final model year for Mercedes’ legendary W123 sedan in the U.S. By this point, Mercedes had been refining the platform for nearly a decade, and the result was about as thoroughly engineered as an old diesel sedan gets. The car wears Euro headlamps and plus-sized Centra […]
This is the C123 300CD, Mercedes’ two-door version of the famously durable W123-series sedan. The coupe used the same basic mechanicals but got a shorter wheelbase, lower roofline, frameless glass and no B-pillar, which gives it a much more elegant profile than the four-door. This one has the naturally aspirated version of the 3.0-liter OM617 […]
I’d recognize a W108 front grille anywhere in the world…but I am equally impressed and gobsmacked to find a W108 grille on the front of a custom MG thing. Moving toward the rear of the car and I don’t see many MG related things, it’s got a small-block Chevy V8, triple wipers, and Lotus Seven […]
This is a W126 Mercedes-Benz 500SEL, which means the big-body, long-wheelbase S-Class from the era when Mercedes built sedans like bank vaults with upholstery. The 500SEL was the flagship V8 long-wheelbase sedan before the even-larger 560SEL took over the throne. Think Cold War embassy transportation with West German freedom to accelerate. The sseller calls it […]
The W124’s greatest asset is that it still feels like a Mercedes from the era when the E-Class designation meant something very specific: heavy doors, excellent seats, restrained styling, superb highway manners, and the vague impression that somebody in Stuttgart expected the car to remain in service until the sun burns out. A used driver […]
The W201 generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class was inexplicably badged as the 190 or 190E for the 1983 through 1993 model years for worldwide sales. The baby Benz might have been inexpensive, but it was not a cheap Benz, because Daimler spent a massive amount of money on R&D and produced a car that 40 years later […]
Our next car is a W210 generation Mercedes-Benz E300 Diesel from the first generation of the oval-headlamp E-Class—and one of the final naturally aspirated Mercedes diesels sold in the United States. Power comes from the OM606.912, a 3.0-liter DOHC 24-valve inline-six diesel with indirect injection and a penchant for surviving hundreds of thousands of miles […]
The W140 (short wheelbase), V140 (long wheelbase), and C140 (2-door) generation S-Class was built for the 1992 through 1999 model years, and it might be the last truly great flagship luxury sedan from Mercedes-Benz. Today’s example is a long wheel base S320 equipped with a 3.2-liter M104 DOHC 24-valve inline-six, rated at about 228 hp […]
DT E-i-C Vince: It’s not often that we at DT feature something other than random cars for sale…but there’s been a pervasive thought echoing in the back of my head in the past decade that I can’t shake. It’s more than a shadowy thought…it’s an overwhelming sense that new mass market products are, by and […]
This is a W124 Mercedes-Benz 300E, one of the great overbuilt Benz sedans — except this one traded the original M103 Mercedes inline-six for a Japanese turbocharged piece of iron. It’s not a 2JZ, but it is a Toyota 1JZ-GTE 2.5-liter turbo inline-six, intercooled, backed by a Nissan CD009 6-speed manual. That is a very […]