With the five slots!
When reminiscing about how good the mercedes w124 was, the 200/300 series, it’s of about the 500e, or the industreless but slow 200d. For this classic car test drive, we’re Hitting the road with the fastest diesel that existed in this industructible model series. The 300D Turbo is so good, it never got better after that.
A Mercedes-Benz W124. That’s diesel. That’s taxi. That’s long-linging. Perhaps the best Mercedes-Benz Ever Built. Money Splashed Against and over the skirting boards in Stuttgart and Played a Subordinate Role Duration the Development of the New 200 Series. Das best oder nichts was a marketing slogan, but a principle. You see and feel that in Everything When you step Into A W124. Just Look at the Furniture. Just in an Example with a few tons on the clock, the fabric shows no wear and the seat has sagged in the slightest. Buttons and Switches Are Indestructible, The Doors Close Like Vault Doors, All The Hardware is, Like the Rest of the Car, of Unparalleled Quality.
We can’t imagine that a seller at the time had to explain why a simple 200 D was much more expensive than, for example, a Peugeot 505 or an Audi 100. People willingly put down a small fortune to be able to drive with that star in sight and a year’s delivery time didn’t deter anyone from buying it Either. With its predecessor, the w123, delivery times increased equally further and that model is still the most produced mercedes-benz to date. The W124 was presented in The Fall of 1984 and the First Copies Were Delivered to Customers at the End Of That Year. In 1985, The T (A Station Wagon) was added to the program. Where the Taxi Industry was Satisfied with the 75 HP 200 D, there was the six-cylinder 300 D for the more wealthy customer. From 1987 as the 300 d turbo, the crème de la crème in the diesel field and externally recognizable by the five slots in the right front screen.
Civilized Nailing
The Previous 300 D (W123) had A Five-Cylinder Engine Without A Turbo, Good for 88 HP. The Six-Cylinder of the W124 is also available without a turbo and then delivers 113 HP, where the five-cylinder 250 D turbo is good for 126 HP. With a top speed of just over 200 km/h, the 300 d turbo was initially at a lonely height. Years later, BMW managed to match this with the 525tds. No less than 113,750 Guilders had to be paid to Become the Proud Owner of this Mercedes-Benz in 1992.
Window Cranks in this Thick Version!
In this case, The First Owner was Satisfied with Window Cranks, But The Sunroof Option was Ticked. No Light Metal, No Air Conditioning, No Leather Upholstery. The Fabulous Diesel Engine Knows How to Compensate for the Lack, Althegh A Long Journey in Summer Temperatures Can Still Be Quite A Test. Before We Drive Away, The Hood OpenS First. Because how of you get to see such an inline-six diesel? It is partly encapsulated to make the interior Even Quieter. As if it is a punishment to listen to the civilized nailing of a mercedes diesel!
So we’re going to do that first, before the hood closes again. Ignition Key On, The Fuel Gauge Imediately Jumps to Attention, The Orange Glow Plug Light Comes on And After It Goes Out, We Turn the Key and the Six-Cylinder Springs to Life. The Needle of the Oil Pressure Gauge Neatly Rises to the Number 3 On The Scale and Then All That Remains is to Enjoy. It is admittedly not a cold start in the middle of winter, but you can hear that the technology is still cold.
Ultimate Touring Car
Inside It Remains Wonderful Quiet, But The Characteristic Diesel Knock is Certainly Present. An Automatic Transmission With Four Gears is Standard in Combination with This Engine. After a Short Half Hour, the Technology is up to temperature and noticeful quieter. Stronger: at constant speed and king acceleration it is hardly noticeable that a diesel engine is at work. Just contemporary standard this is a true masterpiece, even if he is perhaps not with his power and torque.
It Doesn’t Matter, the Sovereign Six-Cylinder Sound and the Mellow Character of the Engine Are Constantly Present. Combine That With The Equally Magnificent Chassis Of The W124 And You Have The Ultimate Touring Car. The Steering Feel is a Bit Woolly, that also Typifies A Mercedes-Benz of This Generation. AT 100 km/h there is Mainly Peace on Board and Somewhere in the background you hear the mighty three-liter Doing Its Job.
He Takes the Speed Bumps Outside The Built-Up Area With The Necessary Elegance and Althegh It is not a Sports Car, the Beautiful Multi-Link Rear Suspension (The Well-Known Rombenkerachse, which Debuted Under The 190) Contributes to a familyarianering. The 300 D Turbo Embodies Like No Other Mercedes-Benz What the Brand Stood for in Terms of Build Quality and Diesel Technology at That Time and It Has Not Goths Better.