1983 Mercedes 300d Turbo Diesel, Excellent Condition, Only 138xxx Miles on 2040-cars
Hebron, Illinois, United States
Body Type:Sedan
Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:5 Cylinder Turbo Diesel
For Sale By:Private Seller
Make: Mercedes-Benz
Model: 300-Series
Options: Sunroof, Cassette Player
Drive Type: rear wheel
Power Options: Cruise Control, Power Locks, Power Windows
Mileage: 139,000
Exterior Color: Lt. Ivory
Number of Doors: 4
Interior Color: Palomino
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Number of Cylinders: 5
Trim: Original in excellent shape.
Nice, nice car. Spent 20 years in storage. Dealer serviced for first 100K miles fully serviced since. Great documents including original port documents, owner's manual, radio and control tags and service records. Nice Michelins. Original tool kit and set of special valve adjustment wrenches included. Becker Europa AM/FM Cassette. Radiator hose neck reinforced. Everything works but climate and cruise controls can be finicky. Pain is clean and original, no rust, minor chips etc. Original dash with no cracks. Console and dash veneers nice with few cracks. Driver seat cover has minor puncture which has been glued otherwise excellent. All lights and electrical work, but panel light brightness does not adjust. Accelerates well with only normal diesel smoke and brakes straight and fast. Minor play in steering.
New rebuilt vacuum pump and RR door lock actuator. New water pump and AC compressor in August 2012. Would not hesitate to drive to Alaska or take a client to dinner in this car.
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Mercedes rules out hybrid supercar, promises SLS successor
Sat, 16 Mar 2013The recent Geneva Motor Show was a festival of hypercars, with the presence of not one, but three over-the-top debuts: the Lamborghini Veneno, McLaren P1 and Ferrari LeFerrari. The latter two have hitched their carbon fiber bumpers to the electrification bandwagon by using hybrid-electric powertrains not entirely unlike the propulsion systems we've come to know in cars like the Toyota Prius and Chevrolet Volt. Does that mean the flow of electrons up the four-wheeled food chain will eventually consume our hallowed supercars? Not if AMG has anything to say about it.
AMG Director of Vehicle Development Tobias Moers recently confirmed that not only will there be a successor to the Mercedes-Benz performance division's SLS AMG, he notes that its internal combustion engine will most definitely not be sharing living quarters with an electric drivetrain. Instead, AMG plans to focus on further pushing the power and efficiency envelope of the internal combustion engine and advancing the use of lightweight materials to achieve their goals. The first example of this effort can be seen in the new SLS AMG Black Series that incorporates many weight-saving techniques to shed some 154 pounds from the SLS AMG GT (above), which itself is lighter than the standard SLS AMG.
Furthermore, Moers remarks that his company is happy to leave the hypercar segment to companies like Ferrari and McLaren. He admits that, "Ferrari in the hyper-car segment is still a different brand than AMG. We have to be honest..." So rather than taking the SLS further upmarket to do battle with bulls and stallions, Moers hinted that the next-generation SLS may be joined by another performance model that fits neatly between itself and the C63 AMG.
Mercedes dealers authorized to spend $2,500 on perks for S-Class customers
Mon, 02 Dec 2013If you drop $100,000 on a luxury sedan, it seems only reasonable to receive some preferential treatment at the dealership you purchased from. After all, that price isn't just for the car - you're paying for the brand and all the cachet that entails. For Mercedes-Benz, those benefits have apparently been lacking relative to the German brand's luxury competitors.
That's set to change, though, as Automotive News reports that the German brand is placing a much greater emphasis on keeping its customers happy and loyal with its MB Select program. Starting with the new S-Class and spreading to the CLA-Class (and eventually beyond), dealers are being given money - up to $2,500 in the case of the flagship sedan - just to improve the customer experience.
We agree, improving the "customer experience" is quite a vague term, so it's nice that Mercedes USA's CEO, Steve Cannon, offered up some examples to AN at the LA Auto Show. For example, a customer couldn't fit his sunglasses into the overhead compartment. "So we bought him a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses that fit because of their shape," Cannon said.
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There is absolutely no reason why any two-seat roadster should be fitted with a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V12 developing 621 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque, but I sure am glad that Mercedes-Benz doesn't see things that way.
Drop into the leather-lined cockpit of this $213,145 provocateur, floor the accelerator pedal as I did over and over again, and 60 miles per hour falls in a traction-limited 3.9 seconds. Top speed has been electronically held to 186 mph (this apparently saves Gulfstream jet owners from embarrassment). Forget the SL550 and SL63 AMG, the valets will trip over themselves attending to the tycoon driving this thoroughbred - it's the real deal.